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Taking a daily bath is very important for the Japanese. Its main purpose is relaxation at the end of a day. Many Japanese also love hot springs, and public baths while having disappeared in most other developed countries can still be found in Japan. The average Japanese bathroom consists of two rooms: a first room with a sink and a second, the actual bathroom with a shower and a deep bath tub. When using the bathroom, you are supposed to first take a shower outside of the tub. That's the moment to use soap and to clean your body. After cleaning yourself you enter the tub. No soap should get into the bathing water. The tub has been filled with water already earlier. After leaving the tub do not drain the water since everybody in the house will use the same water. Modern bath tubs are equipped with new technologies and digital temperature screens. They can be programmed to mix you the correct temperature and automatically fill in the water. The temperature of the bathing water is usually quite high for foreigners. If you barely can enter, you shouldn't move too much since moving around makes it appear even hotter. After taking hot baths for several days you will get accustomed to the high temperatures, and you may start to like it since the hotter the water the more relaxing it is.

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