How to say "bath" in Japanese

• 風呂ふろJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounCovers the widest range of senses: the bath itself, bathing, the bathtub, and the bathroom. This plain, unprefixed form is the natural choice when you mean the facility rather than the experience of bathing.
  インカ人にんはヨーロッパ人にんよりも多おおく風呂ふろへ入はいった。↗

  The Inca took baths more often than Europeans.
• お風呂おふろJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounSimply 風呂 with the polite prefix お, and glossed only as 'bath'. It carries a softer, more conversational tone and is the form people typically use when talking about taking or having a bath.
  私はほとんど毎日まいにちお風呂ふろに入はいります。↗

  I take a bath almost every day.

Choose 風呂 when you mean the bath as a place or fixture — the tub or the room — and use either word for bathing itself, with 「お風呂」 adding a polite, softer tone.

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• 風呂ふろbath
• お風呂おふろbath
• バスbath
• 浴場よくじょうbathhouse
• 湯浴みゆあみ(taking a) bath
• おぶうbath
• 湯室ゆむろbathroom