Japanese Ofuro
This type of sweat bath, named by Japanese people simply Furo what means simply “bath”, is important part of Japanese culture. This traditional bath in
Onsen – public Japanese bath
Bathtubs are unavoidable part in modern Japanese homes, but there are still many homes, particularly in older or rural areas where people live in small housing facilities that do not have private bathtubs, so public bathhouses called sentō or onsen, are common. Onsen is a public bath which uses the hot water from natural
Onsen in Japanese tourism
Onsen, on the other hand, today plays an important role in Japanese national tourism. There are thousand of onsens alongside the country, often found in the countryside as significant tourist attraction, mainly for Japanese tourists. They can be in various forms and shapes, including indoor and outdoor onsen. If you visit
You can still find traditional ofuro throughout
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TYPES OF SWEAT BATHS
[lang_enBy sweat baths we understand the exposure of the body to a high temperature for enough of time to cause the body starting perspire. There are many various types of sweat baths throughout the world, in one form or another. In this section you will reveal the main characteristics of the Russian banya, Japanese o-furo, steam (Turkish) sauna, infra-red sauna…and some other modern “derivatives” of Finnish and steam saunas existing today in sauna centers around the world.
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The appearance of sweat-bathing…
The sauna is a form of sweat bath with a long tradition, but it is hard to define the first sauna. Already the nomad people, when they were wandering around the territory which later became Finland, had made heated holes in the ground, covered with a canvas or animal skin. These sweat-bathing places we can consider as primitive forms of saunas. But the sauna is not the only sweat bath in the world. There are many other types of 'bathing houses' among the cultures, as the Roman thermae, the Turkish baths (Hammam), the Native Americans' sweat lodge, the Japanese bath furo or Russian banja. But for the Finns we can say that sauna is still a way of life to them, and we can freely say that they are the ones who spread the sauna culture around the world.
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