Staff at a historic Japanese guesthouse have admitted they changed the water in their spring baths just twice a year and didn't add chlorine to the facilities because they "didn't like the smell".
The 158-year-old Daimaru Besso inn in Chikushino, Fukuoka Prefecture, recently underwent a health inspection which found that its Japanese bath—which uses water from volcanically heated hot springs—contained legionella bacteria at 3,700 times the permitted level.
