A year of photojournalism and documentary

Finally, a without going too deep into the difference between onsen and a sento, I’ve really started to appreciate the bathhouse and natural spring/spa culture. On my last trip in Japan I found this beautiful (beauty is in the eye of the beholder) old public bathhouse. We didn’t have time then to enter. The second time it took us forever to find it again and it was closed. By now, this bath house had become a quest. I finally had a scrub in it and asked permission to photograph and it was granted. The place has been in operation since 1915 and I’m afraid it will not survive another 5… Old Japan is rapidly disappearing.