@oddlytruejp.bsky.social♨️ Sento are the last thing in Japan whose price a prefecture still caps by law — a 1946 ordinance.
17,999 bathhouses in 1968. 1,493 today.
Tokyo's cap was ¥550; its own study said ¥574 was needed.
Yamagata has zero sento left, and still keeps a cap.
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