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Onsen

Hot spring and public baths

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An onsen (温泉) is a natural hot spring, and by extension the bathhouse that uses it. You wash thoroughly before getting into the bath, which you take naked. After a day of walking, it is one of the great pleasures of the pilgrimage; some shukubō and minshuku have one.

In English
Hot spring
Other spellings
onsens

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