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Of course, there's no bath! just where this idea that outside japan people just doesn't take a bath regulary come from?
People have taken baths 2 times a day since ancient time here!
It's a Japanese fantasy cliche. It's not really about baths, specifically. It's about the modern Japanese person introducing all sorts of inventions and cultural habits to the underdeveloped people of fantasy worlds. Much of the time those inventions are up to thousands of years old in reality, like soap, so they should be present already, but it's not like a random web or light novel author would know anything about such things, nor are they going to waste time verifying their facts. That's not the point, the point is to get easy material for the slow life chapters. At the same time it's also extremely cheap nationalism by having an originally Japanese person civilise the barbarians. If we turn back to baths specifically, the Japanese are proud of their bath/onsen culture, so I suppose it's easy to underline that by pretending nobody else in the world can appreciate hot baths like the Japanese do. If you imagine yourself in the shoes of a Japanese person, maybe it's inspiring to read, in a lowbrow manner.
This isn't exactly Nobel prize literature, haha.