Tokyo - A Bath with a View

I like to bathe in public. this inclination has so far failed to attract much attention because I live in Japan, where hot-spring hopping is a national obsession and the remarkable benefits of bathing are heralded on a daily basis in the media. While growing up here, I harbored violent objections to displaying my everything to a bunch of naked strangers. Only as an achy, fatigued adult has it begun to sink in: What better way to slow the insane pace of this jam-packed country than with a good, long soak?

If you can't squeeze in a trip to a...