Illustration: Inside a neighborhood Japanese bathhouse, several adult bathers wash at a row of low taps and handheld showers, each seated on a small stool. Beyond them, two customers soak shoulder-deep in a large tiled communal bath.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

銭せん湯とう

sentou

public bathhouse

Example sentences

  1. 江戸町内えどまちうちの庶民しょみんは銭湯せんとうで入浴にゅうよくしていた。

    Those days, the Edo citizens bathed in public baths.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 「銭湯せんとう」と聞きくと富士山ふじさんの壁絵かべえを思おもい浮うかべる人ひとは少すくなくはないと思おもわれる。

    Upon hearing the word 'sento,' many people recall a painted mural of Mt. Fuji.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 現代げんだいでは休業日きゅうぎょうびを利用りようして演奏会えんそうかいなどを開催かいさいする銭湯せんとうもまれにある。

    In the modern age, only a small number of sento would hold concerts during the days on which the baths were closed.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 銭湯

  • 銭coin; .01 yenOnセン・ゼンKunぜに・すき
  • 湯hot water; bathOnトウKunゆ

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