Located on the 14th floor of the Natsukaze Tower and busy around the clock, the Gokuraku is the largest bathhouse of the Oborozuki province, housing almost two dozen pools of various sizes along with steam rooms and lounges capable of accommodating hundreds of patrons. Following the usual norms, both showers and bathing spaces are unisex, with linen towels provided to those who prefer to cover themselves. Entering the bathhouse, visitors are given bracelets linked to their credit cards, allowing them to pay for refreshments and other services with a simple flick of a wrist; though more frugal samurai are likely to note how everything seems to be priced as if the bathhouse were a busy spaceport. The ground between the baths is covered by faux-wood paneling, heating elements hidden beneath ensuring that these floors remain warm and dry.
With both hot and cold pools available, as well as several smaller jazuzzi-type baths, patrons are truly spoiled for choices. Heimin responsible for the pool section dart gracefully between bar and baths, carrying a dazzling array of drinks and cocktails on small trays, serving each and every customer with a somewhat forced smile on their lips. The heimin are polite to a fault, often feeling more than a little nervous around the samurai. A canny observer might be able to spy a kimono-clad woman standing on the balcony that oversees the baths, her eyes intent on the staff. Tamori Mizue, the heavily tattooed proprietress of the Gokuraku is known both for her expensive tastes and her disdain for the lower classes. Rumors associate the bathhouse with several heimin that have gone missing, never to be found again. Mizue herself refuses to comment on such 'slanderous gossip'.
Tamori Mizue
