“It’s about time to get up!”
A voice echoes by means of the partition between the lads’s and girls’s baths.
In a nook of Osaka’s purchasing district, there’s an old style public bathtub that boils water utilizing firewood, which is uncommon as of late.
This public bathtub is retro from the Showa period. It has been cherished by the area people for 60 years since its institution in 1962, however was compelled to exit of enterprise two years in the past.
While the variety of public bathhouses is lowering nationwide, a public bathhouse within the downtown space has made an uncommon comeback after going out of enterprise. While soaking within the bathtub, I looked for the rationale.
(Osaka Broadcasting Station Cameraman Teru Hirasawa)