Mie might be the best prefecture for retro sento. Kasuga Onsen is a beautiful old building with another shelter like roof built over it. Quite a weird sight and not sure why. Inside the changing room is cluttered with posters and knickknacks. The grandmother working the bandai happily chatted with me and with the regulars as we changed. While this is a smaller, older sento there are a few jets here plush a deep and shallow main bath. There is also a very weak sauna that has hinoki cedar planks in it to fill it with that lovely smell. The tap water bath was only mildly cold but happy to have it. Tilework here is old and beautiful with a unique object (I don’t know how to explain it) capping off the main bath filling fountain. On the back wall is a tile painting of Mt Fuji behind a waterfall.
Very local place but I felt accepted if only as a curiosity.