The Japanese bath (or Sentō) has long been an crucial part of Japanese culture. Traditionally, Japanese baths were used a lot more out of necessity than out of pleasure as a lot of people didn’t have access to a bath in their home.
At that time every neighbourhood in all of Japan had a public batch where the residents could go to bathe, socialize and in lots of cases, do their laundry.
Since the end of the 20th century, these public baths have been rapidly closing due to high running costs and fewer customers. One thing that could help them to stay open would be if a lot more tourists would visit and express interest in this special and fascinating part of local culture.
The issue for lots of is that these baths, while separated by sex, are nude by requirement so lots of westerners who aren’t used to bathing naked with strangers are immediately put off by the thought of a Japanese bath.
But for the traveller who sheds the institutionalized timidity of nudity and enters a Japanese bath with the locals, there is a terrific opportunity to dive one level deeper into the complex nature of culture in Japan. See what it’s all about in our video here, and continue reading below.
On our recent trip to Tokyo, we checked out 3 separate Japanese baths. We were invited by the Tokyo Sento association to experience these popular, tourist-friendly sentōs and share them with our readers and viewers. We checked out the bathhouses with a man who has been to over 500 different Japanese baths around the country and whose mission is to see every single sentō in Japan.
Obsah
The two main types of Japanese Bath
History Of The Japanese Bath
The cost To enter a Japanese Bath
How To enter a Japanese Bath
Japanese bath Do’s & Don’ts
Can You enter a Sentō With Tattoos?
The 3 Sentōs We checked out in Tokyo
My final thoughts about Japanese Baths
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In this post, I’ll share with you the do’s and don’ts of checking out a Japanese bath in an attempt to demystify the sentō. Hopefully, the next time you visit Tokyo, checking out a sentō will be on your list.
The two main types of Japanese Bath
A lot of people who visit Japan plan to head to an onsen, this is one of the top things to experience in Japan and is a great way to meet people and take pleasure in the natural thermally heated water. but this is not the only type of place you can bath in Japan and the one that I’m mostly focusing on in this post is the sentō.
The Onsen
The Japanese onsen is a traditional, geothermically-heated hot spring where lots of people, both foreigners and locals, choose to bathe. There are thousands of onsens around the country and these facilities can be found in hotels and spas as well.
Onsens are also separated by gender and you’ll still be expected to take off all of your clothes and bathe with nothing a lot more than a face towel as per standard Japanese bath etiquette.
The word onsen in Japanese indicates “hot + source” so to officially be labelled an onsen the water need to be at least 25°C at the source. The facility need to also meet strict criteria relating to the mineral content of the water including the levels of metaboric acid and hydrogen ion.
The Sentō
The sentō is a bath consisting of regular tap water that is heated by flame or electricity. While there are some sentōs around Tokyo and the rest of Japan that include a bath with geothermically heated water, it is not a requirement.
This indicates that, while lots of onsens are restricted to rural areas that have direct access to the volcanically heated source, sentōs are typically found in densely populated areas, neighbourhoods and suburbs as they only need to have a water heating system to run.
History Of The Japanese Bath
In the Nara period from around 710 AD, Japanese baths were referred to as yūya or holy baths and were typically built inside of temples. It wasn’t until the Kamakura period in 1185 – 1333 ad when people who fell ill started to see the medicinal benefits of the Japanese baths and were slowly approved access to the temples to soak in the healing water.
Soon after the ill were permitted entrance into these holy temples, so too were affluent businessmen and merchants and over time, this gave way to the first public bathhouses which began opening at the beginning of the 13th century.
By the Edo period in 1603–1867, Japanese public bathhouses had spreaHow To Take a Japanese bath in Tokyo: A guide to Sentos (###) The Japanese bath (or Sentō) has long been an crucial part of Japanese culture. Traditionally, Japanese baths were used a lot more out of necessity than out of pleasure as a lot of people didn’t have access to a bath in their home.
At that time every neighbourhood in all of Japan had a public batch where the residents could go to bathe, socialize and in lots of cases, do their laundry.
Since the end of the 20th century, these public baths have been rapidly closing due to high running costs and fewer customers. One thing that could help them to stay open would be if a lot more tourists would visit and express interest in this special and fascinating part of local culture.
The issue for lots of is that these baths, while separated by sex, are nude by requirement so lots of westerners who aren’t used to bathing naked with strangers are immediately put off by the thought of a Japanese bath.
But for the traveller who sheds the institutionalized timidity of nudity and enters a Japanese bath with the locals, there is a terrific opportunity to dive one level deeper into the complex nature of culture in Japan. See what it’s all about in our video here, and continue reading below.
On our recent trip to Tokyo, we checked out 3 separate Japanese baths. We were invited by the Tokyo Sento association to experience these popular, tourist-friendly sentōs and share them with our readers and viewers. We checked out the bathhouses with a man who has been to over 500 different Japanese baths around the country and whose mission is to see every single sentō in Japan.
Obsah
The two main types of Japanese Bath
History Of The Japanese Bath
The cost To enter a Japanese Bath
How To enter a Japanese Bath
Japanese bath Do’s & Don’ts
Can You enter a Sentō With Tattoos?
The 3 Sentōs We checked out in Tokyo
My final thoughts about Japanese Baths
Jako tento článek? Připnout!
In this post, I’ll share with you the do’s and don’ts of checking out a Japanese bath in an attempt to demystify the sentō. Hopefully, the next time you visit Tokyo, checking out a sentō will be on your list.
The two main types of Japanese Bath
A lot of people who visit Japan plan to head to an onsen, this is one of the top things to experience in Japan and is a great way to meet people and take pleasure in the natural thermally heated water. but this is not the only type of place you can bath in Japan and the one that I’m mostly focusing on in this post is the sentō.
The Onsen
The Japanese onsen is a traditional, geothermically-heated hot spring where lots of people, both foreigners and locals, choose to bathe. There are thousands of onsens around the country and these facilities can be found in hotels and spas as well.
Onsens are also separated by gender and you’ll still be expected to take off all of your clothes and bathe with nothing a lot more than a face towel as per standard Japanese bath etiquette.
The word onsen in Japanese indicates “hot + source” so to officially be labelled an onsen the water need to be at least 25°C at the source. The facility need to also meet strict criteria relating to the mineral content of the water including the levels of metaboric acid and hydrogen ion.
The Sentō
The sentō is a bath consisting of regular tap water that is heated by flame or electricity. While there are some sentōs around Tokyo and the rest of Japan that include a bath with geothermically heated water, it is not a requirement.
This indicates that, while lots of onsens are restricted to rural areas that have direct access to the volcanically heated source, sentōs are typically found in densely populated areas, neighbourhoods and suburbs as they only need to have a water heating system to run.
History Of The Japanese Bath
In the Nara period from around 710 AD, Japanese baths were referred to as yūya or holy baths and were typically built inside of temples. It wasn’t until the Kamakura period in 1185 – 1333 ad when people who fell ill started to see the medicinal benefits of the Japanese baths and were slowly approved access to the temples to soak in the healing water.
Soon after the ill were permitted entrance into these holy temples, so too were affluent businessmen and merchants and over time, this gave way to the first public bathhouses which began opening at the beginning of the 13th century.
By the Edo period in 1603–1867, Japanese public bathhouses had spreaRike s tebou rozhovor. Je normální být v těchto intimních situacích v Japonsku velmi sociální.
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Japonská koupel do a don’ts
Poslední věcí, kterou chce rekreant udělat, je vstoupit do koupele úplně nahého v cizí zemi a neúmyslně někoho rozrušit nebo porušit pravidla.
Naštěstí jsou Japonci velmi přátelští a příjemní a politiky jsou jednoduché. Pravděpodobně nebudete urazit žádného jednotlivce na sesláním v Tokiu nebo kdekoli jinde v Japonsku. Zde je několik základních pokynů o japonské etiketě koupání, které vám pomohou na vaší cestě.
Získejte nahý
Vím, vím, že pro nás obyvatele Západu není snadné dostat se kolem cizinců! Jsem stejný způsob. Prvních několikrát jsem vstoupil do veřejných lázní na místech, jako je Turecko, Tádžikistán, Kazachstán a Japonsko, byl jsem nepříjemný. Ale jakmile si uvědomíte, že je to zcela přirozené a všichni kolem vás to dělají pořád, začnete se relaxovat.
Hodnota být nahá v japonském koupelovém domě přesahuje užitečnost, aby bylo celé vaše tělo čisté.
Japonci také vidí nahotu jako způsob, jak umýt socioekonomickou hierarchii, která existuje ve společnosti. Když jste v odeslání a jste úplně nahí, nezáleží na tom, zda jste bohatí nebo chudí, staří nebo mladí, jste si všichni rovni uvnitř stěn lázeňského domu.
Před vstupem do vany si umyjte
Když vstoupíte do jakéhokoli odeslání v Japonsku, poté, co sundáte veškeré oblečení a vstoupíte do veřejné koupací oblasti, uvidíte, že v blízkosti vchodu jsou sprchy nebo kbelíkové sprchy. Je to proto, že se od vás očekává, že se budete očistit před vstupem do vany.
Oplachování před vstupem do vany
Japonci obvykle přinesou mýdlo a šampon, aby se úplně drhli, než se namočí ve vanách. I když se to doporučuje, není to nutné. Přinejmenším se musíte před vstupem do lázní velmi dobře opláchnout.
Posaďte se při sprchování
I když pravděpodobně nebudete urazit žádného jednotlivce sprchováním vstávání, bude to oceněno, pokud se posadíte na malé stoličky dodávané na sprchu před vstupem do vany. To pomůže zajistit, že při opláchnutí neúmyslně nevyprašujete žádné jednotlivce.
Než se vrátíte do oblékání
Uvádí se, že změny pokoje mají suché podlahy, takže před vstupem do šatny úplně vysušíte tělo.
Nedávejte ručník do vany
Možná zjistíte, že spousta Japonců vstupuje do vany a položí na hlavu malý ručník. I když to není požadavek, pokud se rozhodnete vstoupit do odesílatele s malým ručníkem, nevložte jej do koupelové vody. Buď ji položte na hlavu, nebo ji úhledně složte na okraj vany.
Nepřiveďte telefon dovnitř
Tenhle musí jít bez ní, ale překvapivě je to běžná otázka, kterou Tokio Bath Association dostává od zahraničních návštěvníků.
Každý je nahý, takže nechte telefon/kameru venku ve vaší skříňce. I když jen kontrolujete své e -maily, každý ví, že váš telefon má na sobě vačku, takže to nepochybně způsobí, že ostatní jsou nepříjemní.
Můžete vstoupit do odesílaného s tetováním?
Je běžnou mylnou představou, že lidem s tetováním nikdy nebude dovoleno vstoupit do odesílatele v Japonsku. Z poslání v Tokiu vám asi 90% z nich umožní vstoupit do tetování a toto číslo se zvyšuje.
Historicky tetování byla přidružená