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Year-end clean-up held at Dogo Onsen Honkan

Year-end clean-up held at Dogo Onsen Honkan

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Workers engage in year-end clean-up operations at the Dogo Onsen Honkan, a time-honored wooden hot spring facility in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 2, 2014.

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'Rakugo' comic storyteller speaks at famed resort

'Rakugo' comic storyteller speaks at famed resort

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Popular "rakugo" comic storyteller Katsura Bunshi presents one of his original tales at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse, on Oct. 24, 2014, in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the renovation of the bathhouse dating back to 1894.

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'Rakugo' comic storyteller speaks on famed spa resort

'Rakugo' comic storyteller speaks on famed spa resort

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Popular "Rakugo" comic storyteller Katsura Bunshi performs his original tale titled "Let's go to Dogo Onsen," one of Japan's oldest and most famous hot springs in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2014, to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the renovation of the Dogo Onsen Honkan wooden public bathhouse dating back to 1894.

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Reed screens hung over bathhouse windows ahead of summer

Reed screens hung over bathhouse windows ahead of summer

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Reed screens are hung over windows of the Dogo Onsen Honkan building, a time-honored wooden bathhouse, ahead of the summer season in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on June 2, 2014.

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Dogo Onsen art festival begins

Dogo Onsen art festival begins

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Dogo Onsen Honkan, the main building of the Dogo Onsen hot springs resort in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, is covered with artificially created fog on April 10, 2014, as the Dogo Onsenart 2014 art festival began to commemorate the 120th anniversary of its renovation.

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Photographer visits hot spring decorated with her works

Photographer visits hot spring decorated with her works

Photographer Mika Ninagawa looks at one of her works on display at Dogo Onsen Honkan, a renowned wooden public bathhouse in Matsuyama, western Japan on Dec. 2, 2015. The Dogo hot spring resort is holding a 10-month-long event until Feb. 29, 2016, combining the hot spring with art, showcasing Ninagawa's works themed on flower petals on the streets and introducing "yukata" kimono bathrobes bearing colorful flower petal motifs designed by Ninagawa, among other things. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photographer visits hot spring decorated with her works

Photographer visits hot spring decorated with her works

Photographer Mika Ninagawa stands in front of Dogo Onsen Honkan, a renowned wooden public bathhouse in Matsuyama, western Japan, with a curtain designed with one of her works hanging, on Dec. 2, 2015. The Dogo hot spring resort is holding a 10-month-long event until Feb. 29, 2016, combining the hot spring with art, showcasing Ninagawa's works themed on flower petals on the streets and introducing "yukata" kimono bathrobes bearing colorful flower petal motifs designed by Ninagawa, among other things. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at historic Matsuyama public bathhouse

Year-end cleaning at historic Matsuyama public bathhouse

A worker engages in the "susuharai" end of year clean up ritual at Dogo Onsen Honkan, a time-honored wooden public bathhouse in Matsuyama, western Japan on Dec. 1, 2015 before the start of the new year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at historic Matsuyama public bathhouse

Year-end cleaning at historic Matsuyama public bathhouse

Workers engage in the "susuharai" end of year clean up ritual at Dogo Onsen Honkan, a time-honored wooden public bathhouse in Matsuyama, western Japan on Dec. 1, 2015 before the start of the new year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photographer's works illuminated at wooden public bathhouse

Photographer's works illuminated at wooden public bathhouse

Colorful pictures taken by photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa are hung on "shoji" sliding screens at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse in the Dogo hot spring resort in Matsuyama, western Japan, and are lit on a trial basis on the evening of Sept. 30, 2015. The exhibition, which started the next day, will continue until the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photographer's works shown at wooden public hot-spring bathhouse

Photographer's works shown at wooden public hot-spring bathhouse

Colorful pictures by photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa are hung on "shoji" sliding screens on Oct. 1, 2015, at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse at the Dogo hot spring resort in Matsuyama, western Japan. The exhibition will continue until the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photographer's works exhibited at old wooden public bathhouse

Photographer's works exhibited at old wooden public bathhouse

Visitors relax in a room on Oct. 1, 2015, against a background of "shoji" sliding screens with colorful pictures taken by photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse in the Dogo hot spring resort in Matsuyama, western Japan. The exhibition will continue until the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitors relax in room with reed screens at Dogo Onsen spa resort

Visitors relax in room with reed screens at Dogo Onsen spa resort

Visitors drink tea in a resting room on June 1, 2015, at Dogo Onsen Honkan, a traditional public bathhouse and symbol of the Dogo Onsen spa resort in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. Reed screens were hung below the eaves earlier in the day to kick off the summer tourism season. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dogo Onsen spa resort landmark ready for summer in western Japan

Dogo Onsen spa resort landmark ready for summer in western Japan

Dogo Onsen Honkan, a traditional public bathhouse and symbol of the Dogo Onsen spa resort in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, is ready for the summer tourism season as screens made of reed are hung below the eaves on June 1, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Worker hangs reed screen below eaves of Dogo Onsen spa resort landmark

Worker hangs reed screen below eaves of Dogo Onsen spa resort landmark

A worker at Dogo Onsen Honkan hangs a screen made of reed below its eaves on June 1, 2015, marking the start of the summer tourism season at the traditional public bathhouse, a symbol of the Dogo Onsen spa resort in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end clean-up held at Dogo Onsen Honkan

Year-end clean-up held at Dogo Onsen Honkan

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Workers engage in year-end clean-up operations at the Dogo Onsen Honkan, a time-honored wooden hot spring facility in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 2, 2014. (Kyodo)

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'Rakugo' comic storyteller speaks at famed resort

'Rakugo' comic storyteller speaks at famed resort

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Popular "rakugo" comic storyteller Katsura Bunshi presents one of his original tales at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse, on Oct. 24, 2014, in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the renovation of the bathhouse dating back to 1894. (Kyodo)

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Hot-spring house in western Japan

Hot-spring house in western Japan

People sweep the soot off Dogo Onsen Honkan, a hot-spring house in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 4, 2018, ahead of New Year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hot-spring house in western Japan

Hot-spring house in western Japan

File photo taken June 8, 2018, shows Dogo Onsen Honkan, a hot-spring house in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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