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In Japan, are hot springs and the bathing facilities and traditional inns around them. There are approximately 25,000 hot spring sources throughout Japan, and approximately 3,000 establishments use naturally hot water from these geothermally heated springs. may be either or . Traditionally, were located outdoors, although many inns have now built indoor bathing facilities as well. Nowadays, as most households have their own baths, the number of traditional public baths has decreased, but the number and popularity of have increased since the end of Second World War. Baths may be either publicly run by a municipality or privately, often connecting to a lodging establishment such as a hotel, ryokan, or minshuku. The presence of an is often indicated on signs and maps by the symbol ♨, the kanji (yu, meaning "hot water"), or the simpler phonetic hiragana character ゆ (yu).

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In Japan, are hot springs and the bathing facilities and traditional inns around them. There are approximately 25,000 hot spring sources throughout Japan, and approximately 3,000 establishments use naturally hot water from these geothermally heated springs. may be either or . Traditionally, were located outdoors, although many inns have now built indoor bathing facilities as well. Nowadays, as most households have their own baths, the number of traditional public baths has decreased, but the number and popularity of have increased since the end of Second World War. Baths may be either publicly run by a municipality or privately, often connecting to a lodging establishment such as a hotel, ryokan, or minshuku. The presence of an is often indicated on signs and maps by the symbol ♨, the kanji (yu, meaning "hot water"), or the simpler phonetic hiragana character ゆ (yu).

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  1. date of death: 2002 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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