In the case of hot springs.
Many people enter the hot spring, so we don't make the water dirty as much as possible.
We use towels to wash our bodies in hot springs.
Before entering the hot spring, wash your body with soap and rinse to clean your body.
If you soak the towel in hot water, the hot water will get dirty.
Therefore, you put a towel on your head and enter the hot spring.
Hot springs have showers like this.
Wash your body with a towel before entering the hot spring.
Cover your body with a towel until you get into the hot spring.
It's what you do with the towel when you get in the hot water.
The towels are provided by the hot spring, so they are all the same.
So I put it on my head so I don't mistake it for someone else's.
It also has a function to cool the head to prevent hot flushes.
The towel is light. not to worry. The temperature of the shower can be freely adjusted from water to hot water. The hot springs feel good. Some people get sick because their blood circulation is too good. Putting a towel on your head prevents it. Japanese wisdom.