Each room in my hotel has a private bathroom, but it's really small. It's so small that I once had a cramp in my legs while taking a shower in it. I can't stretch my legs or arms and can't even wash my body without touching the wall or ceiling. I think that a standard sized American gentleman cannot take this bath. I'm sorry but this is the standard of most Japanese hotels. Fortunately, I can use a large, public bath in a hotel belonging to the same chain for free. It's almost adjacent to my hotel and I walk there to take a bath every night. This bathroom is not so large as a Japanese public bathroom and I can't swim in it. However, as this hotel has few guests, I can occupy it almost every time. Its capacity is probably ten to twelve. It has a large bathtub made of Japanese cypress and a small dry sauna with a water bathtub. How nice because I can use all of them without worrying about other guests. Three rounds of sauna and the water bath have become my daily work as well as stretching in the cypress bathtub.
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