These communal bathhouses were mainly built in sightseeing and hot-spa areas where hot springs were located, and this architectural mannerism was adopted as an architectural style of the shrine-shaped sento established in Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
主に温泉が湧出する観光温泉地の共同浴場であるが、これが関東大震災後に東京で成立する宮型造り銭湯の様式としても採用された。