After closing its doors in November 2016, this long-standing sento bathhouse in Shitaya was revamped into a charming neighbourhood café. The traditional structure and layout of the building have been kept as they were when the sento was first built in 1928. It still looks like your typical Japanese bathhouse from the outside. The homely interior has been renovated with modern fittings and decor, but still has the cosy feel of a local sento.
The entrance to Rebon, which still has the shoe lockers you find at bathhouses, leads into a café space that offers a range of coffee made with beans roasted in-house, as well as different teas including matcha latte and herbal tea and soft drinks like lemonade. We recommend ordering the coffee and ice cream set, which comes with a scoop of housemade fresh fruit ice cream paired with a coffee that compliments the dessert.
Behind the café is the former bathing area, but that has now been remodeled into an office space for the company that renovated the building. The bathhouse’s massive mural of Mt Fuji, which takes up an entire wall, is still here as a historical remembrance.