# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Noboribetsu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/noboribetsu-onsen): Hokkaido, Onsen. A volcanic hot spring town with nine different types of natural thermal water and a dramatic Hell Valley.
- [Takaragawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/takaragawa-onsen): Gunma, Onsen. Mixed-gender open-air baths along the Takara River in a mountain valley, among the largest in Japan, with 470 tatami mats of bathing space in all. They have appeared in films and travel guides.
- [Tendo Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tendo-onsen): Yamagata, Onsen. A relaxing hot spring town known as the production center of over 90% of Japan's shogi pieces. The annual Human Shogi festival features costumed players on a giant outdoor board. Excellent base for visiting Yamadera.
- [Kirishima Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kirishima-onsen): Kagoshima, Onsen. Cluster of mountain hot spring resorts in the volcanic Kirishima highlands, offering diverse mineral waters and dramatic natural settings.
- [Kusatsu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kusatsu-onsen): Gunma, Onsen. One of Japan's most famous hot spring resorts, known for the Yubatake (hot water field) in the center of town.
- [Hakone Yumoto Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hakone-yumoto-onsen): Kanagawa, Onsen. Hakone Yumoto is the end of the line for the Odakyu Romancecar from Shinjuku, about 80 minutes out, and the oldest of Hakone's hot spring areas. Most visitors change trains here and head up the mountain. It is worth stopping instead for an afternoon at Tenzan Tohji-kyo or Hakone Yuryo, two large day bathhouses a short bus ride from the station.
- [Ibusuki Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ibusuki-onsen): Kagoshima, Onsen. A unique hot spring resort where visitors are buried in naturally heated volcanic sand on the beach for a one-of-a-kind onsen experience. The geothermally warmed sand reaches temperatures of around 50-55 degrees Celsius.
- [Gero Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gero-onsen): Gifu, Onsen. One of Japan's three great onsen towns alongside Kusatsu and Arima, celebrated for its silky alkaline waters that leave skin remarkably smooth. The riverside town offers free foot baths, charming streets, and a relaxed atmosphere.
- [Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nishiyama-onsen-keiunkan): Yamanashi, Onsen. A hot-spring inn far up the Hayakawa valley that dates its spring to 705 and holds the Guinness record for the oldest hotel. Overnight guests only, no day bathing. The one road in, Prefectural Road 37, closes in heavy rain, and the inn's only shuttle leaves Minobu Station once a day at about 13:40, booked in advance.
- [Ryujin Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ryujin-onsen): Wakayama, Onsen. A mountain hot spring town in the former Ryujin village of Tanabe, counted among Japan's three beauty waters for its smooth sodium bicarbonate spring.
- [Takamagahara Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/takamagahara-onsen): Toyama, Onsen. A few open-air pools beside a mountain stream at about 2,100 m in the headwaters of the Kurobe River, often called the farthest hot spring in Japan. No road reaches it. From the Oritate trailhead it is about 13 hours on foot, so plan on at least two days each way, and the only place to stay, Takamagahara Sanso, opens only from July to September.
- [Kurokawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kurokawa-onsen): Kumamoto, Onsen. A mountain onsen village in a wooded valley near Mount Aso, loved for its traditional atmosphere and bath-hopping pass. The entire village feels like one large ryokan connected by a stream and forest paths.
- [Takeo Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/takeo-onsen): Saga, Onsen. Ancient hot spring town with a striking vermillion gate designed by the architect of Tokyo Station, offering historic public baths.
- [Awara Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/awara-onsen): Fukui, Onsen. One of Hokuriku's most famous hot spring towns, known as the 'parlor of the Kansai region' for over 140 years.
- [Beppu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/beppu-onsen): Oita, Onsen. Japan's most prolific hot spring city with more sources than anywhere else, famous for the spectacular Hells of Beppu.

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Last updated: 2026-11-12