Noboribetsu Onsen
Hokkaido's Premier Hot Spring Resort
A volcanic hot spring town with nine different types of natural thermal water and a dramatic Hell...
Takaragawa Onsen
Japan's Largest Open-Air Baths Along a Mountain River
Mixed-gender open-air baths along the Takara River in a mountain valley, among the largest in Jap...
Tendo Onsen
A Charming Onsen Town Famous as Japan's Shogi Capital
A relaxing hot spring town known as the production center of over 90% of Japan's shogi pieces. Th...
Kirishima Onsen
Highland Hot Springs in Volcanic Mountain Country
Cluster of mountain hot spring resorts in the volcanic Kirishima highlands, offering diverse mine...
Kusatsu Onsen
Japan's Premier Hot Spring Resort
One of Japan's most famous hot spring resorts, known for the Yubatake (hot water field) in the ce...
Hakone Yumoto Onsen
Hakone's Gateway Onsen Town, Where the Romancecar Stops and Two Big Day Bathhouses Wait
Hakone Yumoto is the end of the line for the Odakyu Romancecar from Shinjuku, about 80 minutes ou...
Ibusuki Onsen
Ibusuki Onsen - Volcanic Sand Bath Experience
A unique hot spring resort where visitors are buried in naturally heated volcanic sand on the bea...
Gero Onsen
Gero Onsen - One of Japan's Three Great Hot Spring Towns
One of Japan's three great onsen towns alongside Kusatsu and Arima, celebrated for its silky alka...
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan: The Inn Guinness Lists as the Oldest Hotel, Up the Hayakawa Valley
A hot-spring inn far up the Hayakawa valley that dates its spring to 705 and holds the Guinness r...
Ryujin Onsen
Hot Spring Town Among Japan's Three Beauty Waters
A mountain hot spring town in the former Ryujin village of Tanabe, counted among Japan's three be...
Takamagahara Onsen
The Hot Spring Called Japan's Farthest, Two Days on Foot into the Northern Alps
A few open-air pools beside a mountain stream at about 2,100 m in the headwaters of the Kurobe Ri...
Kurokawa Onsen
Kurokawa Onsen - Atmospheric Mountain Hot Spring Village
A mountain onsen village in a wooded valley near Mount Aso, loved for its traditional atmosphere ...
Takeo Onsen
1,300-Year-Old Hot Spring with Vermillion Gate
Ancient hot spring town with a striking vermillion gate designed by the architect of Tokyo Statio...
Awara Onsen
One of Hokuriku's most famous hot spring towns, known as the 'parlor of the Kansai region' for ov...
Beppu Onsen
Hot Springs City
Japan's most prolific hot spring city with more sources than anywhere else, famous for the specta...