Refers to a facility where people bathe, such as a sento or onsen bathhouse. Often used in compound names like 大浴場 (large public bath).
This inn has a spacious bathhouse.
Can mean a bathroom in a public or institutional context, but for a private home bathroom, 浴室 or 風呂場 is more common.
体育館の浴場は広くて清潔だ。
The gymnasium's bathroom is spacious and clean.
We decided to use the inn's large public bath.
I brought a towel and went into the bathhouse.
public bath; communal bath · community-run bath; local public hot spring
special bathhouse; soapland; massage parlor