Somewhere in Japan

Category: Bathing

Dispatch № 91: Stars and Waters

We’ve been looking up with interest since long before we were human, and when we look up at the night sky now, it may stir within us something ancient and deep…

Dispatch № 51: Communal Waters

Night photo showing a small chunk of a building with shoe lockers on one side, all that remained at the time of a the local public bath I used to frequent in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, Japan

Third places are important, but some are disappearing, public baths among them. This is one aspect of Japan’s declining social capital.

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