Comments on: Sentō Gossiping

By: Pied

Pied — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:30:00 +0000

Well, I have some luxurious tastes you know ^^
But sure, I wasn’t thinking of the casual sentô. I’ve been to one of those just once, ages ago, in Ôsaka…
The thing is, those next to where I live may be… well… I don’t know what those of Kabukichô look like, but chances are the same kind population goes there…

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:03:00 +0000

Mmn… I think you are confusing plain simple sentô with fancier onsen and rottenburo (not mutually exclusive, but considerably less common)… When I say sentô, I mean the usual deal where you go soak up after a long day at work to relax and discuss the weather with the locals. Despite a certain decline in recent decades, they are still everywhere. I doubt you live more than 500m from one. Sentôs are pretty much all identical inside, so it is rather pointless going across country to go to one

As for finding them:
1) Open google map
2) type your address
3) ‘search nearby’ for 銭湯

There you go! (there’s already 4 within walking distance of Sendai train station, but I don’t know where you live).

By: Pied

Pied — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:13:00 +0000

1/ I don’t know where it is
2/ The one at Futako has 3 outside pools. So great in winter ! (Though I must have onsens here. I need to find a couple of mates with whom I could go there.)

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:55:00 +0000

What’s wrong with your local sento?

By: Pied

Pied — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:06:00 +0000

Lucky you, I haven’t been to the sentô for ages…
I consider going to the one in Futako-Tamagawa around new year’s Eve, as I plan to go to Tôkyô then (Kyoto might be a little too expensive for me)