TOKYO >> With the Rugby World Cup drawing about 500,000 visitors to Japan, attitudes have been split among public bath operators over whether to accept foreign customers with tattoos. Some facilities ...

Onsen are baths filled with geothermally heated, mineral-rich water. They’ve long been part of Japanese culture, but foreign travelers often struggle with the nudity aspect. - Boaz Rottem/Alamy Stock ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For many, sento are still a vital part of daily life in Japan, each governed by a strict set of customs. For ...

Tokyo, Oct 22 (EFE).Tokyo, Oct 22 (EFE). — More than half Japanese hotels with hot springs do not allow tattooed visitors access to public bathing areas on account of existing bans against the entry ...

Japan's “hot spring capital” is trying to find ways to make one of the country's most popular pastimes more inclusive for people who identify as LGBT, when most public baths are segregated according ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X TOKYO >> Japan is proud of its bathing traditions. For many Westerners, though, the fact that ...

Kosugiya aims to create public baths that honor their hundred-year long history in Japan. Since the Showa era, people often went to these public baths to wash up and relax after an exhausting day. The ...

Japan has nearly 30,000 hot springs and a culture of public bathing. An Israeli American architect, Yuval Zohar, has developed a passion for it. The architect Yuval Zohar at his favorite hot spring ...

It was a cold February day in northern Japan, snow piled high outside the onsen locker room windows as I slipped out of my clothes. Nervously, I stepped into the plumes of steam wafting from the next ...