Japan has nearly 30,000 hot springs and a culture of public bathing. An Israeli Americanarchitect, Yuval Zohar, has developed ...

Discover the profound health benefits of this Japanese practice. It is , backed by science, significantly boosts your immune ...

Together, these discoveries suggest that spending time in forests — a practice known in Japan as “Shinrinyoku” or forest bathing — does more than refresh the mind. It may also strengthen the immune ...

On a recent concert tour in Japan, I had the chance to visit several thermal baths and to chat with people about the tradition of bathing. I was fascinated by their differences with American spas.

Forest bathing emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a physiological and psychological exercise called shinrin-yoku, meaning “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” Now this type of walking ...

Dr. Qing Li is the author of Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness. We all know how good being in nature can make us feel. We have known it for centuries. The sounds of the ...

Forget the ocean. In Ibusuki, a beachside city on Kyushu Island in Japan’s subtropical south, it’s all about the sand. Not the dark color of the sandy granules or even the length or width of the ...