Japan Public Baths

In Japan, going to Japan public baths has an important social role. These countries boast the hottest saunas and the tradition to beat fellow went to the sauna with wet and thick bundles of branches. In Japan public baths are strictly single-sex while in other countries both types are common. In Japan, where public saunas have been in close for a long time generally have a moderate attitude like live and let others live for going to the sauna with some habits mentioned. Levels of nudity vary, single-sex saunas are as common as those for both sexes and people tend to socialize.

There are familiar loud conversations while the sauna is seen as a place of healing more than just socializing. In contradiction to the Scandinavian countries, poring water on hot stones is not by visitors but by an employee of the complex. Japan public baths sessions can last up to 10 minutes and are made as scheduled. During the meeting the saunas, sauna caretaker uses a large towel to circulate the hot air in the sauna, intensifying sweating and feeling of warmth. Once the sauna session began, is not considered a good way to check in the sauna, because the door can cause heat loss (Customers are expected to join sauna time. Leaving sauna is always, but not very well accepted). The sessions are usually announced by a program shown on the sauna door. Session in progress may be indicated by a light or sign hung at the entrance of a sauna. Cold showers after the sauna, as well as exposure to fresh air in a special balcony, garden or open room are considered a necessity.

In Japan, many saunas exist at sports facilities and public baths. Saunas are almost always separated based on sex, often required by law, and nudity is a requirement of appropriate behavior in the sauna. Although immediately after World War II, Japan public baths were commonplace in Japan, the number of customers has decreased as people have allowed houses and apartments equipped with its own private bathroom as the nation became increasingly rich. As a result, many public baths have added more facilities such as sauna, the will to survive.

Treating disease and denial of love spells could also happen in the sauna. As in many other cultures, the fire was seen in Japan as a gift from heaven, and fireplace or sauna oven were altar. It is a little difficult to translate, but high heat does inside the sauna, especially the heat produced from the molding water over hot stones. Originally, this word meant the spirit of life. All this also indicates the old spiritual essence of the sauna.  In Japan, public baths are an ancient thing. These baths used to be a holy place, a place where women born and where dead bodies were washed. There were also many beliefs and charms assigned sauna. It was, inter alia, a revered place where death was thought to be a place so wonderful that even death and would certainly want to come back to him.