A calming, natural material palette influenced by onsens and sentōs in Japan flows through this sauna in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Bathing is an art in Japan. Bathing has style. Bathing has etiquette. The only bath etiquette I was taught was to wipe off the ring after using the tub. By Japanese bathing standards, I’m a barbarian.

For many years after I experienced my first Japanese onsen, or public bath, and whenever I was in Japan on my annual trip, I found myself playing a variation of that game recommended to nervous public ...

KANONJI, Kagawa Prefecture—Through several twists and turns, a company that supplied bricks for what is now the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima is now a hot spring facility with the most different ...

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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 ...