Gyms with sauna and cold plunge?

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Alice said:
Never seen that in Tokyo. It seems like everyone who has slight excess money seems to buy a European car here so that wouldn't fly all too well.
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Used to be thing in Tokyo too. Around the same time all foreign cars were left hand drives.

To me it feels like yesterday, so it was probably the 90's.
 
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Yes, gotta love that the government are not the ones that discriminate against tattoos, but private organizations who should especially by now be happy snatch up all that tourist money are.

Technically speaking an onsen is a bath with special thermal ground water. Sento is a bath with regular water. So supersento is definitely a sento, it's just a private run one so they can operate by their own rules. Just look for public run sento, you can recognize them because they are very cheap, until 500 yen (subsidized, I guess). Private run ones would of course charge more.
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I think if these businesses are already profitable and doing well on their own mostly from local patronage, they might not be inclined to cater for the mass tourist crowd which has its own complications.

I love that certain onsens or yu in or around Tokyo are blessedly free of the current crowd of tourists that Tokyo is saturated with, if you know where to look.
 
Chewie said:
I think if these businesses are already profitable and doing well on their own mostly from local patronage, they might not be inclined to cater for the mass tourist crowd which has its own complications.

I love that certain onsens or yu in or around Tokyo are blessedly free of the current crowd of tourists that Tokyo is saturated with, if you know where to look.
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Lots of those super sento / therma Yu places are quite expensive. They could definitely benefit from foreigners to keep them turning, especially because the locals will know exactly where to find the public baths that charge around 500 yen only.
 
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Alice said:
Yes, gotta love that the government are not the ones that discriminate against tattoos, but private organizations who should especially by now be happy snatch up all that tourist money are.

Technically speaking an onsen is a bath with special thermal ground water. Sento is a bath with regular water. So supersento is definitely a sento, it's just a private run one so they can operate by their own rules. Just look for public run sento, you can recognize them because they are very cheap, until 500 yen (subsidized, I guess). Private run ones would of course charge more.
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Yeah the main difference, from a legal perspective, is are they considered "necessary" for public health, or a "nice to have" entertainment facility?
If the former, they won't / can't ban tattoos.
 
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