Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Jun 18, 2017

Dipping into Hakone's more unusual hot spas

by Danielle Demetriou

"I love red wine, it's my favorite thing!" These are perhaps not the words that a mother particularly likes to hear from her young daughter — especially when she is only 4 years old. But this was precisely what my daughter told me when we ...

Lifestyle Nov 5, 2016

Washed up? Tokyo's iconic communal bath houses face an uncertain future

by Mark Jarnes

Walking around Tokyo, you may have noticed a number of tall, narrow chimneys rising above the skyline every so often. Such stacks are a good indication that you've stumbled across a sento, or communal bath house. Long-time residents, however, will perhaps have noted that such ...