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  2. Capsule hotel - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, a capsule hotel may have a communal bath and sauna. Some hotels also provide restaurants, snack bars, bars, or vending machines, pools, and other entertainment facilities. There may be a lounge with upholstered chairs for relaxing, along with newspapers and reading material. [13] Capsule hotels vary in size, from 50 or so capsules to ...

  3. Sentō - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to the sentō at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum. Sentō (銭湯) is a type of Japanese communal bathhouse where customers pay for entrance. Traditionally these bathhouses have been quite utilitarian, with a tall barrier separating the sexes within one large room, a minimum of lined-up faucets on both sides, and a single large bath for the already washed bathers to sit in ...

  4. Ryokan - Wikipedia

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    Ryokan have existed since the eighth century A.D. during the Keiun period, which is when the oldest hotel in the world, Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, was created in 705 A.D. Another old ryokan called Hōshi Ryokan was founded in 718 A.D. and was also known as the world's second-oldest hotel. Such inns also served travelers along Japan's highways.

  5. Public bathing - Wikipedia

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    In the 17th century, the first European visitors to Japan recorded the habit of daily baths in sexually mixed groups. [12] Before the mid-19th century, when Western influence increased, nude communal bathing for men, women, and children at the local unisex public bath, or sentō, was a daily fact of life.

  6. Hōshi Ryokan - Wikipedia

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    Main entrance Hot springs spa bath at Hōshi Ryokan in winter. Hōshi (法師) is a ryokan (Japanese traditional inn) founded in 718 in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.It has been owned and managed by the Hoshi family for forty-six generations [1] and was thought to be the oldest operating hotel in the world until Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, founded in 705, claimed that title. [2]

  7. Onsen - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, men and women bathed together at both onsen and sentō communal bathhouses, but gender separation has been enforced at most institutions since the opening of Japan to the West during the Meiji Restoration. Mixed bathing (混浴, kon'yoku) is currently banned in Japanese public baths.

  8. Japanese bath - Wikipedia

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    Japanese bath may refer to: Sentō (銭湯), a type of Japanese communal bath house; Furo (お風呂), a type of bathtub commonly used in Japan; Onsen (温泉), a Japanese hot spring traditionally used for public bathing; The bathroom in a Japanese house; Customs and etiquette of Japan related to bathing

  9. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan - Wikipedia

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    'Keiun-era Nishiyama Hot Spring') is an onsen ryokan (Japanese hot spring inn) in Yamanashi Prefecture. Founded in 705 by Fujiwara no Mahito, it is a prime example of shinise ("long-established business") and perhaps the oldest independent company in operation following the acquisition of construction company Kongō Gumi in 2006.

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