Wa-pedia Home > Japan Forum & Europe Forum

View Poll Results: How often do you have a bath in average ? (as opposed to shower)

Voters
49. You may not vote on this poll
  • Everyday or more than once a day

    9 18.37%
  • 4 to 6 times a week

    6 12.24%
  • 2 or 3 times a week

    4 8.16%
  • Once a week

    3 6.12%
  • 1 to 3 times a month

    2 4.08%
  • I almost only take showers

    25 51.02%
Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 25 of 29

Thread: How often do you have a bath ?

  1. #1
    Twirling dragon Maciamo's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 17, 2002
    Location
    Posts
    2,434

    How often do you have a bath ?

    The Japanese are real bath lovers. I have rarely seen people so enthused about such a normal thing as having a bath, and even less make it a regular conversation topic or have TV programmes about it (onsen and sento included). Having a bath is almost a social activity in Japan, as family members take bath togethers, and a lot of people still go to public baths. Onsen (bath with volcanic water rich in mineral) are also usually a group activity.

    Personally I almost only have showers. I was recommended to have more hot baths in Japan because it was cold inside the house (even with the heater) and I got blood circulation problems in the hands and feet because of that. Maybe that is why the Japanese find it so important...

    Anyway, let's have a poll and see how much you like baths yourselves.

    Visit Japan for free with Wa-pedia
    See what's new on the forum ?
    Eupedia : Europe Guide & Genetics
    Maciamo & Eupedia on Twitter

    "What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?", Winston Churchill.

  2. #2
    Sister Earth Goldiegirl's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 10, 2006
    Location
    Old Ashippun, WI
    Posts
    67
    I love really hot baths. I use English bath salts in the water, they make the water feel nice and the air smell so good. I do take a shower every morning though. That and a cup of coffee gets my day started.

    I don't think I would enjoy a public bath of any kind. To me bathing or relaxing in the tub is a personal and private ritual. It's how I was raised.
    I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey

  3. #3
    JREF Resident Alien Pachipro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 19, 2005
    Location
    Goodlettsville, Tennessee
    Age
    69
    Posts
    129
    Even though I live in the US for now, I took a hot steaming bath in Japan every single day during the winter and cooler months and do so when I visit. It was the perfect end to the day with a cold beer afterwards. In the summertime a cool shower is most sufficient with a hot bath thrown in once in a while.

    Nowadays, when I visit the in-laws in Japan, the custom is to have a hot bath before dinner. However, since the mother-in-law is busy with getting dinner ready she doesn't bathe until dinner is finished and the dishes washed.

    To me, there is nothing more relaxing than a steaming hot bath, especially in the wintertime. In the US I just shower daily as the bath cools too quickly and there is no internal heating element as in Japanese baths. However, while quick and convenient, showers just don't do it for me. Sometimes it feels as if I cannot get warm enough in the wintertime. But I shower daily nonetheless here in the US.

    I jumped the gun and should've selected "I almost always take showers" as that is what I do at present.
    Do What You Love And You'll Never Work Another Day In Your Life!


  4. #4
    Banned sabro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 23, 2004
    Location
    Near Lake Arrowhead, CA
    Age
    59
    Posts
    86
    I shower daily, but not by choice. I prefer a good shower followed by a long hot soak. I am just too tall to take a bath in a conventional tub.

    In my last house, I built a bathroom around a large spa tub specifically so I could soak three or four times a week. Four years ago, we moved into our new house, which is a bit larger and nicer, but doesn't have a large enough tub to soak in!

  5. #5
    You SPAM/We BAN !
    Join Date
    May 21, 2003
    Location
    State of Maine
    Age
    74
    Posts
    125

    I always have said.....

    if I come into some extra money someday, I'll have one of those Japanese soaking tubs with the gas burner to heat it.My tub was put in when the house was built in 1948 and it looks it. Just standing in it for a shower grosses me out. I need a hot shower in the morning to wake me up and get me going; hate to start my day without one.

    Uncle Frank

    TAKE WHAT I SAY WITH A GRAIN OF SUGAR !!
    I USED TO BE FUNNY, BUT MY WIFE HAD ME NEUTERED!

  6. #6
    ژ^ Index's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 26, 2005
    Posts
    78
    Once in a blue moon-I get bored of sitting around just soaking. I did go through a phase when I lived in Japan of visiting my local sento almost every night although the main reason was that in winter the outside shower at my place was just too painful to use. I amused myself at the sento by alternating the extra hot bath with cold showers-definitely invigorating.

    A spa bath in the right company and a bottle of champagne is something else though...
    Last edited by Index; Dec 26, 2006 at 22:38.

  7. #7
    Don't Hesitate & go miki78's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 9, 2006
    Posts
    7
    Hmm i take 2-3 baths a week and shower everyday ^^

    I don't think i would like public baths though

    Signature kindly made by Jou Sama
    In suport of The One campaign SAVE THE TURKEY http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/turkey-cruelty-4.html

  8. #8
    Robot/Ninja xerxes99's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 28, 2005
    Posts
    13
    I shower every day, but I have become such an onsen addict since I came to japan. I love them.
    "We are all in the gutter,
    but some of us are looking at the stars."
    - Oscar Wilde

  9. #9
    Johansson Revenant's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 7, 2005
    Location
    Okayama, Japan
    Age
    47
    Posts
    19
    I might go to an onsen once a year just cause it's a cheap way to get clean after two days camping, but otherwise, I'm quite content with my daily showers (or sometimes two in the summertime).
    "The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, forgiveness."
    --H.H. the Dalai Lama

  10. #10
    Regular Member misa.j's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 6, 2004
    Location
    NYS, US
    Age
    52
    Posts
    81
    Maybe it's just me, but bathing used to make me colder afterwords especially if the water was on the hot side. I could feel the heat escaping from my body more quickly than from just taking a shower at normal temperature...
    That's why I always took a bath right before I went to bed in the winter time.

    I only take showers at home now, but when I stayed at a hotel with a jaccuzi, I jumped in. I liked those bubbles and liked to swim in it. I can't seem to just sit still in the hot water for a long time.

  11. #11
    Regular Member Kyoko_desu's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 1, 2006
    Posts
    15
    Oh I just loooove hot bath and I take it every day. And the bathroom is a good place to practice singing, lalalala~~~
    @@

  12. #12
    Where I'm Supposed to Be kirei_na_me's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 31, 2003
    Location
    Virginia
    Age
    47
    Posts
    218
    I only take baths unless I'm in a big hurry.
    i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

  13. #13
    Regular Member The-Beautiful-Roses's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 3, 2005
    Posts
    5
    I take a shower every day, and sometimes like three baths after that. I dunno, I like really hot water.. but then when I get out, I can feel my pulse and its just so weird but relaxing. Everyone says I take the hour shower. Tee hee. Water is mah luffa luffa!!
    www.myspace.com/xxxdarkrosexxx
    I HEART YOU!!!!

  14. #14
    Twirling dragon Maciamo's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 17, 2002
    Location
    Posts
    2,434
    Usually women like baths more than men. It reminds me of an episode of 'Friends' :

    Quote Originally Posted by Friends
    CHANDLER: Y'know what? We're not sad, we're not sad, we're just not 21 anymore. Y'know? I'm 29 years old, damnit! And I want to sit in a comfortable chair, and watch television and go to bed at a reasonable hour!

    JOEY and ROSS: Yeah!

    JOEY: Yeah! And I like to hang out in a quiet place where I can talk to my friends.

    CHANDLER and

    ROSS: Yeah!

    ROSS: And so what if I like to go home, throw on some Kenny G, and take a bath!

    JOEY: We're 29, we're not women.

  15. #15
    Pink Lady's Number #1 Fan Flashjeff's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 28, 2003
    Location
    Philadelphia, PA
    Age
    65
    Posts
    53
    Well, on weekdays and Saturdays, it's showers exclusively, but on Sunday nights, I'll indulge in a bath just before bed.

    "It's better to try and fail than to never try at all."
    -Jeffrey C. Branch, crackpot philosopher

    Interested in old school J-Pop? Please visit my website:
    Pink Lady: The Website!


    Many thanks to Ayu-youkou for this mondo cool banner!

  16. #16
    Your Goddess is here Ma Cherie's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 24, 2004
    Location
    Kansas City, Missouri
    Posts
    92
    I take showers more than I do baths. I only take baths when I want to relax.
    "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

  17. #17
    April 2007! laurilovesyou's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 6, 2006
    Location
    Long Island, NY
    Posts
    1
    Our tub is too little to take a nice soaking in. So showers everyday for me! I am looking foward to my trip to japan in april to taking a nice onsen somewhere!

  18. #18
    Horizon Rider Kinsao's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 8, 2005
    Location
    England
    Age
    44
    Posts
    92
    I don't actually have a shower, so I don't have any choice other than to take baths.

    Before then, I would always choose a shower. just because it is quicker. But on the other hand, the fact that I have to have a bath now is good for me, because it's the only free time I get when I can read. (I can't just sit and soak - I get bored.)

    Now that I've had to take baths for a few years, if I was to get a shower now, I'd probably alternate bath and shower depending if I was in a hurry or not.

  19. #19
    Junior Member SuperStarEurope's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 3, 2007
    Posts
    2
    Interesting title and poll.....3-4 times.........

  20. #20
    Lovely Angel BrennaCeDria's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 5, 2004
    Location
    Savannah, GA
    Age
    41
    Posts
    10
    A shower every morning, and either a second shower or a bath at night. Very occasionally, normally on weekends, I'll take a bath in the morning, even if I have to get to work that morning. I have to get up really early or there has to already be breakfast at work for that to happen, though.

    New sig coming soon!

  21. #21
    Banned sabro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 23, 2004
    Location
    Near Lake Arrowhead, CA
    Age
    59
    Posts
    86
    I gotta get a soaking tub...

  22. #22
    preacher's wife M.K's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 8, 2006
    Posts
    1

    dogs

    I've seen a ritzy-woman who takes her dogs in a bath every morning.
    thought it's unhealthy though.

  23. #23
    Banned sabro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 23, 2004
    Location
    Near Lake Arrowhead, CA
    Age
    59
    Posts
    86
    Wet dog smell mmmmmm.

    Don't most people prefer lilacs or something less dog-like?

  24. #24
    Regular Member ludoNL's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 9, 2005
    Location
    Akita-ken
    Age
    34
    Posts
    4
    Since I don't have a bath, I take a shower every day.

  25. #25
    The Original Seven Nana007's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 10, 2005
    Location
    VA
    Age
    37
    Posts
    7
    I used to be a Bath person, until I went to school. The Dorms only had showers, so It was for like a year, that I took no baths, and it has kind of turned me into a shower person.

    Although In Japan I took a Bath everynight. And a shower in the morning.
    I seriously need a much cheaper hobby than the ones I have now.

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •