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I lived in a Japanese one-room apartment (yo jou han) (よじょうはん) (四畳半) for five years. There was no shower or bathtub, so I had to go the local bathhouse (sentou) (せんとう) (銭湯) every night.
A sento is not a vacation bathhouse at a ryokan or minshuku. It is a bathhouse in a city that people can go to everyday during the year. (My sento was closed once a week on Mondays, so on Mondays I had to go to a sento that was farther away.)
For a foreigner, going to a sento is quite a cultural experience. Here is a video that is very authentic in showing what it is like.
A sento is not a vacation bathhouse at a ryokan or minshuku. It is a bathhouse in a city that people can go to everyday during the year. (My sento was closed once a week on Mondays, so on Mondays I had to go to a sento that was farther away.)
For a foreigner, going to a sento is quite a cultural experience. Here is a video that is very authentic in showing what it is like.
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