"There's a public bathhouse next to the toilet shack," he says.

This here must be a public bathhouse, but there was nobody around to take my money.

So I opted for the public bathhouse down the street a way.

We were broke and grubby: the offer of a stay at a public bathhouse for next to nothing was too good to refuse.

I decided to take my baths at the public bathhouse, or sento, down the street.

They were also adopted by boarding schools, before being installed in public bathhouses.

Anybody who has a serious interest in nudity can see more than that any day at a public bathhouse.

A public bathhouse, shops and a social club were part of the village.

Later we learned that it had been the last public bathhouse in Manhattan.

The public bathhouse was a place where gossip and local news were shared, but never dirt.