Bathhouses

After business came to a halt, many bathhouses added new facilities, such as saunas and exercise equipment, in an effort to attract customers.

Both young and old, men and women, regularly get together at the local bathhouses.

All sites have tables, grills, water, and electricity and are served by six bathhouses.

In the so-called golden age of bathing, people of means flocked to bathhouse palaces for the pampering. Others went to bathhouses in remote mountain towns in the belief that their mineral-rich waters, bubbling from springs deep beneath the earth, offered curative powers. Treatments at bathhouse spas were said to cure everything from nervousness to gout to syphilis.