Document 72 Hours - Season 5 Episode 30 Koenji, What to Expect at the Public Baths
Koenji, Tokyo. An old-fashioned wooden building stands in an alley past a pure shopping street. It is a long-established public bathhouse that is open until 2 am. The baths are filled with workers returning from construction sites, young people living in cheap apartments and pursuing their dreams, parents and children who have been going there for 60 years, even a mysterious long-haired man... Men and women of all ages who happen to be there sweat in the same bath, talk about trivial matters, and drink coffee milk in one gulp. Once they hit it off, they went to an izakaya across the street for a quick drink. This is a story of an old-fashioned public bathhouse that is disappearing from the city.
Year: 2025
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan
Studio: NHK BS1, NHK, NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Director: NHK, NHK World-Japan
Cast: Ryo Katsuchi, Saniko Ichikawa, Mariko Yagi, Maito Fujioka, Aoi Yamada, Kazue Fukiishi
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First Air Date: Oct 03, 2006
Last Air date: Jul 25, 2025
Season: 16 Season
Episode: 460 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 8.70/10 by 3.00 users
Popularity: 7.0215
Language: Japanese
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Fukushima: From a Super Market in Early Spring
Close Encounters! Street Corner Photo Printing Machine
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Consumption Tax Increase! 24 Hour Discount Store
At the Foot of the Skytree
Youth Hello Work Youth
Ueno Park, Under the Cherry Trees in Full Bloom
Midnight Public Restaurant in the Big City
Trunk Rooms: Another Secret Room
Osorezan: Place of the Dead
On the Road: “Happiness Theory” on Route 16
Tropical Nightless City, 24-Hour Supermarket
Shonan, Reasons to Gaze at the Sea
At a Gas Station in a Drenching Downpour
What Dreams I Have at the Fishing Pond Late at Night
Veterinary Hospital in the City that Never Sleeps
Kabukicho Nail Salon: Behind the Scenes of a Woman's Dressing Room
Summer: The Closest Station to the Nuclear Power Plant
“On the Shore with a View of the Atomic Bomb Dome
A Small Convenience Store in a Large Hospital
Haneda Airport: From Summer to Autumn
Deep Asakusa, Midnight Coffee Shop
Ueno Ameyoko, Multinational Underground Market
What to Hit: Boxing Gym in a Mixed-Use Building
Koenji, What to Expect at the Public Baths
A Walking Trip Around Yamanote Line - ”Happiness Theory“ in the Center of Tokyo
Kisarazu, Wangan, Big Lunch Box Store Blues
Wandering Shakebai
Osaka Minami, Midnight Underground Tenement
Shinjuku Ni-Chome: A Taste of Mother's Home Late at Night