So how does one go about bathing in a forest? It’s not streaking down a trail or counting steps on a Fitbit. For Japanese ...

“Following trends like sandalwood, palo santo, and cypress, hinoki is rooted in its traditional use in Japanese bathhouses ...

A wood derived from cypress trees, Hinoki is known for its citrusy, slightly balsamic notes, and it’s long been a Japanese bathhouse fixture. More recently, though, the wood has made its way ...

Hinoki, also known as Japanese cypress or "king of the woods," is used to build sacred buildings in Japan as well as Japanese bathhouses and onsen (hot-spring baths). When the steam from the baths ...

But not Masayuki Oshima, the charismatic president of Youbi, a small producer of Japanese hinoki cypress furniture in the picturesque village of Nishiawakura in Okayama prefecture. After the last ...

After World War II, Japan began reforesting the country with fast-growing sugi (cedar) and hinoki (cypress) trees. However, this effort led to a hay fever crisis, which was first noticed in 1964. By ...

A special type of cypress native to Japan, hinoki smells herbaceous, green, and cedar-like. It has become an It ingredient in perfume, popping up in bath products like Nécessaire’s Hinoki body ...

A Japanese style first-of-its-kind campground ... The structure’s sauna is lined in coveted and highly aromatic Hinoki cypress. Yuichi Uchida and daughter Keto explore the hot pool at Snow ...

“Following trends like sandalwood, palo santo, and cypress, hinoki is rooted in its traditional use in Japanese bathhouses and is closely associated with calmness and well-being. This connection ...

Maybe it’s all that time we’ve spent sweating it out from wood-planked infrared saunas—or at least fantasizing about it while watching yet another Architectural Digest celebrity house tour—but ...