How to Use a Japanese Sento (Public Bath) | Slow Japanese Listening for Beginners (JLPT N5)

💡 Today's Question 💡 What picture is on the wall of the bath at Fuji no Yu? 🎬 How to Use a Japanese Sento (Public Bath) | Slow Japanese Listening for Beginners (JLPT N5) Learn Japanese with this slow and clear guide to a Japanese public bath. Perfect for beginners (JLPT N5) to practice listening and shadowing. In this episode, Ms. Fujita, the owner of an old neighborhood sento called "Fuji no Yu," shows you around and explains how to use it, step by step. Then you watch Luca, a traveler visiting a sento for the first time, pay at the counter, borrow a towel, and try the famous after-bath drink. Everything is spoken slowly, with Japanese subtitles on screen and romaji + English captions (CC), so you can follow every word. 🔤 Rōmaji & English subtitles: turn on CC (字幕). 📝 Chapters 0:00 Intro & Today's Question (導入・問題) 0:47 Scene 1: Before Opening (あけるまえの おふろば) 4:05 Scene 2: The First Customer (さいしょの おきゃくさん) 7:44 Scene 3: The Bandai & the Big Picture (ばんだいと かべの え) 11:13 Scene 4: After the Bath (おふろの あと) 14:36 Scene 5: Night at the Sento (よるの せんとう) 17:45 Vocabulary Review (今日のことばの復習) 18:20 Answer & Recap (回答・まとめ) 🗣️ You'll learn: ✅ How to pay at a sento: "Otona hitori desu." (One adult.) ✅ The 3 basic steps: pay, wash your body, then get in the bath ✅ Why you should never put your towel in the bath water ✅ The famous after-bath drink and how people drink it 📖 Today's Words: 1. せんとう (sentō) — public bath 2. ゆぶね (yubune) — bathtub (the big bath) 3. のれん (noren) — shop curtain at the entrance 4. ばんだい (bandai) — front counter of a sento 📄 Free Study Guide (PDF): Download the full script (Japanese + romaji + English) with today's words — free: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... 💡 Practice Tip: At a sento in Japan, try saying: "おとな 1にんです。 / Otona hitori desu. / One adult, please." 🎧 Great for: ✔️ Japanese listening and shadowing practice ✔️ JLPT N5 beginners ✔️ Travelers visiting Japan ✔️ Slow & relaxing Japanese study 👉 Like, comment, and subscribe for more slow Japanese stories! #LearnJapanese #JapaneseForBeginners #SlowJapanese #JLPT #JLPTN5 #JapaneseListening #nihongo #日本語 #studyjapanese #japaneseconversation #shadowing #easyjapanese #lifeinjapan #sento #publicbath