# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [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. - [Misasa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/misasa-onsen): Tottori, Onsen. Set in a peaceful river valley, Misasa Onsen has welcomed weary travelers for 850 years with its radium-rich waters said to possess strong healing properties. The town's name meaning 'three mornings' refers to the belief that three nights of bathing will cure any ailment. Traditional ryokan line the Mitoku River where visitors can soak in riverside rotenburo baths, and the nearby sacred Mount Mitoku offers a steep climb to the legendary Nageiredo temple built into a sheer cliff face. - [Bessho Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/bessho-onsen): Nagano, Onsen. A historic hot spring town outside Ueda City, nicknamed the Kamakura of Shinshu for its concentration of old temples. - [Ureshino Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ureshino-onsen): Saga, Onsen. One of Japan's top three beauty hot springs known for smooth, silky waters that are said to make skin beautiful, in a historic tea-producing town. - [Okukinu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okukinu-onsen): Tochigi, Onsen. Four inns at the head of the Kinu River inside Nikko National Park: Kaniyu, Hatchonoyu, Nikkozawa Onsen and Teshirozawa Onsen. No private cars or taxis go past Meotobuchi, so you walk in on a forest trail (80 to 90 minutes to the nearest inns, 2 to 2.5 hours to Teshirozawa) or, if you are staying at Kaniyu or Hatchonoyu, ride the inn's shuttle. - [Yunomine Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yunomine-onsen): Wakayama, Onsen. A tiny, steam-wrapped hot-spring hamlet near Kumano Hongu, home to Tsuboyu, a rock-cut riverside tub said to be the only World Heritage bath you can actually soak in. - [Shibu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shibu-onsen): Nagano, Onsen. A narrow, stone-paved onsen street in the Yokoyu valley with nine public bathhouses that are locked to everyone but residents and people staying the night. Your inn lends you the key. Day visitors can use only the ninth, Oyu, for 800 yen. Jigokudani Monkey Park is further up the same valley. - [Kawayu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kawayu-onsen): Wakayama, Onsen. A riverside hot spring near Kumano Hongu where hot water wells up through the gravel of the Ōtō River, so visitors can scoop out their own open-air bath; in winter a huge communal 'Sennin-buro' is dammed up for free bathing. - [Yunotsu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yunotsu): Shimane, Onsen. A one-street onsen town running down a narrow valley to a small Sea of Japan harbour, once the port that shipped silver from Iwami Ginzan and one of the 14 component parts of that World Heritage Site. Shimane Prefecture says it is the only onsen town in Japan chosen as a Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. Come for the two old public baths, Motoyu and Yakushi-yu, and Iwami kagura at the town shrine on Saturday nights. Quiet, with little to do after dark beyond that. - [Kamuiwakka Hot Falls](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kamuiwakka-hot-falls): Hokkaido, Onsen. A river in Shiretoko National Park that runs warm because hot spring water from Mount Io feeds it. You wade about 400 m upstream, over small waterfalls, to a pool at the fourth fall where the water reaches about 35 to 38C. Entry is booked and paid, July to September only, at the end of about 10 km of gravel road that is open roughly June to the start of October. - [Jozankei Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jozankei-onsen): Hokkaido, Onsen. Jozankei is inside Sapporo's city limits, in the mountains of Minami-ku, about an hour from Sapporo Station on a Jotetsu bus. Kappa statues stand all over town, the footbath in Jozan Gensen Park is free, and the red Futami suspension bridge is where to stand when the gorge turns red and yellow in early to mid October. - [Sukayu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sukayu-onsen): Aomori, Onsen. A single mountain inn at about 890 m in the Hakkoda range, known for the Hiba Sennin-buro, a pillarless mixed bath of hiba wood about 160 tatami mats in size, filled with strongly acidic sulfur water. The weather station here measured 566 cm of snow on February 26, 2013, the deepest since JMA's automated stations began keeping statistics in 1979. - [Kinugawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kinugawa-onsen): Tochigi, Onsen. A long line of big hotels on both banks of the Kinu River gorge, about two hours from Asakusa on Tobu's limited express. Come for the boat ride down the river, the 140-metre suspension bridge to Tateiwa rock and the free footbath outside the station. The town's public bathhouse closed in 2024, so a soak in the water itself now means a hotel's day-bathing hours. - [Dorogawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/dorogawa-onsen): Nara, Onsen. A street of old wooden inns at about 820 meters in the Omine mountains, built to lodge pilgrims heading up Sanjo-ga-take, a peak that still bars women. There is no train: the last leg is a bus of about 70 minutes from Kintetsu Shimoichiguchi Station, with only a handful of departures a day. - [Tamagawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tamagawa-onsen): Akita, Onsen. A hot-spring cure town 43 km up a mountain road from Tazawako Station, built around the Obuki source: 98°C water at pH 1.2, about 9,000 liters a minute from a single vent. People lie on the steaming ground along the trail for bedrock bathing. The inn is open from late April to late November (check the closing date with the inn), and the road beyond the dam shuts to cars for the winter. Page 3 of 4. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?destination_type=onsen&page=2 Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?destination_type=onsen&page=4 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?destination_type=onsen&page=3) Last updated: 2026-11-13