Japanese Bathing & Japanese Bathroom Style
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Japan is a
volcanic country and natural hot springs are to be found throughout the
islands. 
Japanese people are very mannered and people of etiquette at any place. They keep themselves always neat and clean.
This is the reason the way of bathing and their bathroom is a place of some really importance for them rather than just a bathing place.
The purpose of bathing for Japanese is not just cleaning your
body but also to relax your body after the end of day.
Japanese Bath Room
Basically Japanese bathroom has two rooms, one changing room where you undress and put on clothes after bath.
Second room is main bathroom equipped with a shower and a bath tub.
There will be plastic small stool on which one can wash her / his body with soap and / or exfoliate her body before going into bath tub.
The toilet seat is generally located in an entirely separate area.
Japanese Bath Style
When bathing in Japanese style, first you have to soap up, wash and rinse your body on a low rise or small stool. Then you will enter into bath tub generally with hot water where you will soak your body. It also allow the use of shower.
The bath tubs have a quick water heating facility. Also there can be a plastic foldable cover maintaining heat when not in use.
After soaking your body in bathtub come out of the tub and clean your body with soap. Once you finished cleaning and have rinsed all the soap from your body, enter the bath tub once more for a final soaking.
The bath water is to be kept clean for all members of the house and so washing and rinsing is done outside of the actual bathtub.
Nowadays the traditional and familiar look of wooden bath, stools etc. is not part of the everyday Japanese bathroom. It has been changed to a modern looking bathroom now.
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