Last week hot water supplying system of my house got out of order.
The repairer said it was due to the aged machine and several days were required for the replacement.
During that period I went to a public bath house for the first time in ages.
The Japanese are bath enthusiasts in general .
Public bath houses used to be for people who had no bathtubs in their home.
Now, almost every home has bathtub and some people boast having luxurious bathrooms.
Still, there exists a lot of bath houses because some people like to soak them into big bathtubs. Stretching the limbs in hot water, we feel liberated from stress, tension and stiffness.
There are some bath houses in my neighbourhood but I found one on the internet, that located two stations away and had various types of bathes. The fees for public bath houses are fixed throughout Tokyo —470 yen (about 3.76 euros) for an adult.
You don’t have to wear face masks in the bathroom.
The ladies’ bathroom had 17 shower booths and four large bathtubs: a jet bath, a water bath, a bath filled with carbonic acid gas and a bath with minute air bubble.
I wanted to experience all of them.
However, I remembered that when I was a young girl I was so excited about a big bathtub in a hot spa that I immersed myself for unusually long time. As a result, I felt sick and fell down. My mother was with me at that time.
Now, if I get sick the ambulance will be called.
So I cut my bath time short.
It was really refreshing v(^_^)v
In Japan not only human beings, but companion animals, racehorses, zoo animals (such as capybaras) and wild monkeys also love to take a bath.
Before the pandemic, a lot of foreign tourist came to see Japanese monkeys taking a bath in a mountain area called Jigoku-dani onsen hot spa.
Now, the monkeys would wonder what had happened with those spectators.
Or, they would feel really relaxed.
