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Sorted, Mate: A Foreigner’s Guide to Japanese Communal Baths

I recently went to a sentō (a Japanese communal bath) for the first time. I went to Funaoka Onsen (‘onsen’ meaning ‘hot spring’ in Japanese, though it’s often just used as a synonym for sentō), in north-western Kyoto. And while it … Continue reading

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