Behind that curtain is the town’s living room.

As you pass through the curtains swaying in the wind at dusk, you will hear the chime of “irasshaimase” (welcome).
In front of Ebisu Yu, there are many bicycles today.
Housewives on their way home from shopping, men in work clothes, students on their way home from school.
This place is like the “living room of the town,” where each person brings his or her own time.

Established in 1958.

The bathhouse, named after the god of business prosperity, Ebisu Shrine, located just a stone’s throw away, has indeed thrived in this town for a long time.
It is now also used as a “large bath” at SEKAI HOTEL Fuse.

The past and the present mingle in the steam.

Entering the bathroom, one finds a space where time seems to have stopped.
A faucet with red and blue buttons. Tiled walls. Wooden lockers that have seen better days.
And then there are the 80’s style coin-operated massage chairs and the cauldron-shaped hair dryer.
A hair dryer that can be turned by inserting a 10-yen coin is a rare sight nowadays.

For those who don’t know it, it’s new; for those who do, it’s nostalgic.
This bathhouse is filled with fragments of memories of “ah, this and that.
The regulars are always ready to help you, even if it’s your first time.
She tells you, “It’s hot, be careful,” with a little laugh.

Why it warms you from the core

When you go around to the back of the Ebisu bathhouse, you will see a large pile of firewood.
Yes, this public bathhouse still heats its water with firewood.
The firewood is collected from scrap wood from nearby factories and workshops.
What comes out of the town heats up the people of the town.
This cycle continues as a matter of course here.

The smell of smoke rising from the chimneys, not from gas or electric boilers, is somehow comforting.
Perhaps it is because you can feel the “time and effort” that goes into the process.

SEKAI HOTEL Fuse has a “public bath”.

If you stay at SEKAI HOTEL Fuse, we recommend the “Plan with Sento (public bath)”.
If you ask at the front desk, you can borrow an original bath tub.
Put your towel in the tub and walk all the way to the bathhouse.
You will feel as if the unfamiliar scenery of an unfamiliar town becomes a little more personal.

I’ve had regulars say to me, “Is that from the hotel?”
I find myself becoming a part of the town’s circle before I know it.
I feel as if I am living in this town, not a tourist.

I can’t resist a cold bottle after a hot bath!

After taking a bath, it’s time for a drink.
There is a refrigerator quietly placed next to the guard’s desk.
bottles of coffee milk, fruit au lait, cola, ginger ale…
All of them are cold and the retro design of the labels is also irresistible.

Drinking them all in one go seems to cool you down to the core.
But the lingering warmth that comes afterward is also pleasant.
When you leave Noren, the night breeze is blowing in the town, and
an ordinary day becomes a little bit special.

There is a warmth that cannot be reached by a solitary hot spring.

Ebisu Yu looks like nothing has changed, but it is a place that has walked together with the town.

The neon sign lights, the wood burns, and the chimes ring. The repetition has continued for tens of thousands of times.

Now that I have a bath at home, it is nice to soak in the hot water alone,
but there is a special warmth in spending the same time with someone else in the same steam.

If you ever visit this place in your travels, please let us know,
I think it might be a feeling as if you were suddenly mixed in with the “life of the town”.