Tokyo’s once ubiquitous public baths are fighting to survive

Tokyo’s once ubiquitous public baths are fighting to surviveAre naked comedy classes the answer? STEP from the fraying lobby into the tiled interior of Akebono-Yu, Tokyo’s oldest sento, or public bath-house, and there is an almost churchlike silence, interrupted only by the tinkle of spring water and the odd groan of pleasure from one of the elderly customers sinking into its tubs. A mural depicts

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