# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Jinata Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jinata-onsen): Tokyo, Onsen. Rock pools at the foot of a narrow cleft on Shikinejima's south coast, where iron-rich spring water at about 80°C mixes with the sea. It is free and open around the clock, but you need a swimsuit, a staircase of about 170 steps, and the right hour of the tide. - [Aoni Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/aoni-onsen): Aomori, Onsen. A single inn deep in the Aoni valley east of Kuroishi, lit at night by oil lamps instead of electric light, with four baths and no mobile signal. From December to March private cars are banned on the access road and the inn's booked shuttle is the only way in. - [Yamanaka Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yamanaka-onsen): Ishikawa, Onsen. One of the Kaga onsen towns, in the valley of the Daishoji River. The public bath, Kikunoyu, costs 500 yen and is split into two separate buildings, one for men and one for women. Below the town, a 1.3 km riverside path through Kakusenkei gorge runs between a cypress bridge and a magenta S-shaped one. - [Hoshi Onsen Chojukan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hoshi-onsen-chojukan): Gunma, Onsen. Hoshi Onsen is a single wooden inn, Chojukan, at the foot of the Mikuni Pass. Its big bath, Hoshi-no-yu, dates from 1895, and the roughly 40°C water comes straight up from the rock under the stones you sit on. Reaching it without a car means a train, a bus and a town bus that runs four times a day. - [Okuhida Onsengo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okuhida-onsengo): Gifu, Onsen. Five onsen villages strung along the valleys east of Takayama: Hirayu, Fukuji, Shin-Hirayu, Tochio and Shin-Hotaka. There are about 140 inns and nearly all have an outdoor bath. Two cheap public ones are open as of October 2026: Arajin-no-yu in Tochio all year, and the riverside Shin-Hotaka-no-yu until 30 October. - [Nozawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nozawa-onsen): Nagano, Onsen. A hot spring village in northern Nagano with 13 public bathhouses, the soto-yu, that anyone may use for free. Villagers have looked after them since the Edo period through groups called yu-nakama, so drop a coin in the box by the door. The water comes straight from the source and nobody cools it for you. - [Iya Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/iya-onsen): Tokushima, Onsen. A single inn, Hotel Iya Onsen, on the rim of the Iya gorge, with its own cable car that drops 170 meters down a 42-degree slope to open-air baths beside the river. Day visitors are welcome, but the bus out here runs only three times a day. - [Shirahama Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shirahama-onsen): Wakayama, Onsen. The hot spring side of Shirahama, apart from the beach. Its best-known bath is Sakinoyu, open-air rock pools on the Yuzaki shore where the lowest pool sits at the level of the sea and waves come in over the edge. It costs 500 yen, and you cannot use soap because the water runs straight into the ocean. - [Takegawara Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/takegawara-onsen): Oita, Onsen. A city-run bathhouse a 10-minute walk from Beppu Station, in a 1938 wooden building with a curved karahafu gable over the door. The ordinary bath is 300 yen. For 1,500 yen you put on a yukata, lie down on the sand-bath floor and staff shovel hot sand over you for about 15 minutes. - [Hirauchi Kaichu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hirauchi-kaichu-onsen): Kagoshima, Onsen. Two rock pools on the shore at Hirauchi, on Yakushima's south coast, where hot spring water rises among the boulders and the sea covers everything except around low tide. Bathing is mixed, swimsuits and underwear are not allowed, and you pay by putting 300 yen in the donation box. - [Naruko Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/naruko-onsen): Miyagi, Onsen. A hot spring town in the hills of northwest Miyagi, about 45 minutes from Furukawa on the JR Rikuu East Line. Naruko is a kokeshi town: its dolls have heads fitted into the body that squeak when you turn them, and a street of doll shops leads up from the station. Takino-yu, the public bath beside the Onsen Shrine, costs 300 yen. In late October Naruko Gorge turns red and the town fills up. - [Shima Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shima-onsen): Gunma, Onsen. A narrow hot spring valley along the Shima River in northwest Gunma with 42 sources, named in 1954 as one of Japan's first three national health spa resorts. Sekizenkan's 1691 main building is often linked with Spirited Away, and the lake upstream, Okushima-ko, turns a bright "Shima blue" in spring. - [Zao Onsen Dairotenburo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/zao-onsen-dairotenburo): Yamagata, Onsen. Zao Onsen's seasonal outdoor bath, fed straight from a strongly acidic sulfur spring. ¥850 for adults, open from late April to November. Page 4 of 4. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?destination_type=onsen&page=3 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?destination_type=onsen&page=4) Last updated: 2026-11-05