GERO, Gifu Prefecture—Complaints about naked and unruly visitors have led to a ban on bathing, except for feet, at a popular open-air riverside hot spring facility here. Gero city imposed the ...

Despite the name, forest bathing doesn’t mean actually taking a bath in the forest. What it does mean, according to Montana Forest Bathing owner and certified guide Ellen Horowitz, is really up to ...

I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery came up with a new concept: shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing.” The idea was to get people ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In a walled garden in West Sussex, Mark Rogers is trying something new. The co-founder of landscape design practice ...