Of course during the cold winter, but also during the hot summer I love taking a bath. When I take my time inside the bath, the fatigue of the day is removed and my mind and body feel relaxed.
Japanese are often said that they like to be clean. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Japanese like to take baths.
In my family, every day we filled the bathtub with hot water and my parents, sisters and grand-mother, everybody used the same bath. Of course we also washed the body and hair with a shower, but everybody in my family loved to take their time in the bath hot water. We washed our body and hair everyday so you could say we were clean, but actually all the members of the family were taking a bath with the same water, so some foreigners might say “using the same water as somebody else is too dirty!”
ともかく、
Anyway, before I live by myself I was taking a bath everyday in my parents’ house, but if you live by yourself filling the bathtub everyday will make the water bill quite expensive. Taking a bath everyday became a luxury, I really got used to taking only a shower. But the days I feel really tired, taking a bath makes me relaxed, of course.
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After I became older, I came to understand the real good point of hot-springs, more than before. When I was younger I was simply happy with a big bathtub, I could have fun. But now, I realized that the special water of the hot-spring heals the painful parts of the body and little by little the body feels relaxed.
もうすぐ
The rainy season is coming soon, and the hot summer will begin. Nevertheless recently I feel like going to hot-springs.