Coronavirus: Japan’s onsen provide virtual reality antidote to lockdown blues

With the government advising against anything but the most urgent of excursions outside the home and fears growing daily about the unchecked spread of the novel coronavirus, the owners of Japan’s much-loved onsen and sento public baths are having to get inventive to meet the needs of their loyal clientele. The answer for a number of establishments that suddenly find themselves without customers has been to provide them with a free virtual dip in a hot spring or public bath. A writer’s…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/2zvSgBf