The bathhouse is lit by candlelight during a concert for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Before he turned over his bathhouse in Tokyo's Ota Ward to a group of musicians on Tuesday night for a charity performance, proprietor Kazuyuki Kondo gave a brief and somber warning:
"Follow the directions of the staff in case there's an aftershock, and watch that you don't turn on the faucets by accident. You might scald yourself."
Tokyo bathhouse, musicians provide relief to quake victimsAfter nearly two weeks of clearing wreckage and cooking at evacuation centers in the disaster-weary Tohoku region, the musicians returned to Tokyo to perform, give accounts of their trip and raise donations for victims in the north.
"A lot of people are depressed by what's going on," says Kondo, the third-generation operator of the Hasunuma Onsen bathhouse. "I want cheer up the locals here. But I also want to do what I can for those farther away, even if it's to turn a bathhouse into a stage for one night."
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Its nice to see this kind of caring after a disaster of such magnitude.