A website providing information about sento public bathhouses in parts of Japan is proving popular despite the decline in such communal baths, which have been a major part of Japanese culture.
Tokyo Sento, launched in 2015, now attracts about 100,000 views a month, mainly from people aged 25-34, according to the site's operator, and gets comments on its social network services — Facebook and Twitter — from people saying visiting a public bath has become something they now want to do.
Shotaro Hino, 32, president of the website's operator, was always a fan of public bathhouses and frequented one close to his home in Tokyo.