Japanese Culture:Japanese Modern Bath

When it comes to think about Japanese culture, I came up with idea of bath since Japan is one of the countries where people use bathtub when they have a bathtime. In old days, people used to have a bath called "Goemonburo"(五右衛門風呂). It is made by steel and people boil the water with fire directly so they had a bath with thin wood board under them in oreder to avoid burning themselves. Now this old traditional culture is gone. because of western culture, the style is changed but, bathtub culture is still alive in Japan.

This is the picture of the bath at my house. Usually in the bath, if it is apartment, there is a huge mirror and the small shelf where the washbowl, shampoo and body soap are put. Beside the shelf, there is the bathtub with some bath salt in it. This is why the color inside of the bathtub is green. There is also little chair we use when we wash hair. Shower is attached to the pole and it is vertically movable so that people can change the height of showerhead. Since Japan is the bathtub culture, we usually use bath salt when we take a bath. You can find a bath salt everywhere that so many kinds of bath salts are in LOFT or drug store.

Bathsalt

Usually, in order to separate changing room and where we take a bath, the door is shut completely in order to avoid overflwing water. Morover, unlike western counries, the floor is lower than bath floor in Japan. Unlike other countries, beside the bathtub, there is a covered drain to avoid overflowing water.