TOKYO — With the Rugby World Cup expected to draw about 500,000 visitors to Japan, attitudes have been split among public...
“A foreigner holding a washbowl in a bathhouse is so cool!” was the reaction to one of the promotional posters on display in a Tokyo bathhouse. “You think public bathhouses are weird?!” was another. An association consisting of six bathhouse operators in the Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward has created four unconventional posters to boost interest in public baths.
