Nanitch › Travel
Nanitch is a moderated map of places to get in warm water or hot air — hot springs, saunas, bathhouses, swimming holes and quiet beaches across Europe, Asia and North America. Most of them you wear a swimsuit; the clothing-optional ones are marked, clearly, per spot. If you are in a city you don't know with an afternoon to spend, this is the map that tells you whether the interesting-looking bathhouse is worth the tram ride — and what to wear when you get there.
The dress code. Every spot on Nanitch carries one of five explicit dress values, set per place with a source — including “not known”, said out loud. Nowhere is this more worth thirty seconds than a country whose bathing culture you didn't grow up in: the same city can hold a swimsuits-required pool hall and a bathhouse where a swimsuit is what gets you stared at.
The legal status. Spot pages summarise what the law actually says where that matters, in plain words, with the caveat that rules change and enforcement is local. It is a summary, not legal advice — but it beats guessing in a language you don't read.
Whether anyone has actually been. Spots on Nanitch get confirmed by people standing at them, and recent one-tap reports — worth it, busy, closed, parking full — sit right on the page. A pin nobody has confirmed says so. A directory that can't tell you the difference isn't much of a guide.
These pages are hand-written — the law read at its source, the access notes from people who went:
There are also regional guides, and the live map covers everything, everywhere, including the places that haven't earned a written page yet.
In the app, you can light an ember at any public spot: “I'll be here, at this time — come if you want.” Other people tend it to say they're coming, and you meet by showing up. There are no DMs, no profiles to browse, and no way to message anyone — a signal points at a place and a time, never at a person. It is the lowest-stakes way that exists to not sauna alone in a city where you know nobody.
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