Tag: bathing

An American friend came to visit me over the weekend, and I drove to the train station to pick him ...

Because the Japanese generally study six years of English during junior high and high school, there's a tendency for English ...

If you need an email answered in French from J-List, you'll have to wait another day: Thomas, our employee from ...

Japan has had a culture of bathing in public baths and natural volcanic hot springs for centuries, and I've really ...

The other day my wife gave me a haircut, since she insists that the place I usually go to -- ...

I got a question about how taxes work in Japan the other day from a Twitter follower, so I thought ...

Tomorrow I'm going on a bit of a vacation to northern Japan with my son, a fun trip that we're ...

You've been in Japan too long when you get a nihongo ga jozu ("you speak Japanese very well") and feel ...

Last time I talked about the way Japanese perceive Westerners, who kind of hold a special place in society here ...

A friend from Italy came to our prefecture for a visit, so I took him to one of my favorite ...

Onsen (pronounced OWN-sen) are the volcanically heated baths that are so popular in Japan, and some hot springs like Arima ...

I went with my son to a public bath the other day, always a fun way to relax and wash ...

As you probably know, I love Japan's culture of onsen, bathing in volcanic hot springs. But nothing good in life ...

If you want to learn about the cultural differences between East and West, I recommend marry a Japanese woman. The ...

My "iPhone diet" is going surprisingly well, and I've managed to lose 12 kg (25 lbs) so far. On this ...

I have the most interesting car: when I start it in the morning, it greets me with ohayo gozaimasu (good ...

Like many people in Japan, I am a furo-bito, or a person who likes taking baths in natural hot springs. ...

I love getting a haircut in Japan. The barber shop I use rents space inside a lobby of a large ...

Between studying Japanese for four years at SDSU and living here for 17, I've pretty much got the Japanese language ...

Are you ticklish? My kids certainly are, and I only have to move my hands towards them in a threatening ...

I know I write about toilets in Japan quite often. For some reason, there's a lot of interesting culture to ...

Living in Japan, it's always interesting to observe the various "when worlds collide" moments that come along every once in ...

One of my favorite movies is Spirited Away, a beautiful feature film by Hayao Miyazaki with a fabulous soundtrack by ...

Over the weekend I took my son up to the mountains for some quality onsen (volcanic hot springs) bathing, one ...