The lower level contains locker rooms for men and women, Japanese baths, golf cart parking and maintenance facilities.

First, an ofuro, the Japanese bath followed by a traditional banquet served by kimono-clad women.

Getting wet: adventures in the Japanese bath.

Worse yet, the ofuro, a traditional Japanese hot bath where the worries of the day are soaked away, was made out of bare concrete.

They even have a Japanese bath, with all the protocol.

In Japanese baths, called onsen, always wash first before entering the water.

Another type of Japanese public bath is onsen, which uses hot water from a natural hot spring.

Japanese public baths have suffered infrequent outbreaks of dangerous Legionella bacteria.

During the Meiji period (1867-1912) the design of Japanese baths changed considerably.

When we come home, I'm going to spend a week in a Japanese hot bath.