Beppu Onsen
Hot Springs City
Japan's most prolific hot spring city with more sources than anywhere else, famous for the specta...
Misasa Onsen
Set in a peaceful river valley, Misasa Onsen has welcomed weary travelers for 850 years with its ...
Bessho Onsen
Historic Hot Spring Town Known as the Kamakura of Shinshu
A historic hot spring town outside Ueda City, nicknamed the Kamakura of Shinshu for its concentra...
Ureshino Onsen
One of Japan's Three Great Beauty Hot Springs
One of Japan's top three beauty hot springs known for smooth, silky waters that are said to make ...
Okukinu Onsen
Four Mountain Inns Past the Meotobuchi Gate, Reached on Foot or by Guest Shuttle
Four inns at the head of the Kinu River inside Nikko National Park: Kaniyu, Hatchonoyu, Nikkozawa...
Yunomine Onsen
Ancient Kumano Hot Spring and the World Heritage Tsuboyu Bath
A tiny, steam-wrapped hot-spring hamlet near Kumano Hongu, home to Tsuboyu, a rock-cut riverside ...
Shibu Onsen
Nine Locked Bathhouses, a Key from Your Inn and a Towel to Stamp at Each One
A narrow, stone-paved onsen street in the Yokoyu valley with nine public bathhouses that are lock...
Kawayu Onsen
Riverbed Hot Spring Where You Dig Your Own Bath in the Ōtō River
A riverside hot spring near Kumano Hongu where hot water wells up through the gravel of the Ōtō R...
Yunotsu
Yunotsu, the Old Silver Port of Iwami Ginzan Where Two Public Baths Face Each Other Across One Street
A one-street onsen town running down a narrow valley to a small Sea of Japan harbour, once the po...
Kamuiwakka Hot Falls
Kamuiwakka Hot Falls: Wading Up a Warm, Acidic River in Shiretoko
A river in Shiretoko National Park that runs warm because hot spring water from Mount Io feeds it...
Jozankei Onsen
Sapporo's Own Hot Spring Town, an Hour by Bus, With Kappa Statues and a Red Bridge Over the Gorge
Jozankei is inside Sapporo's city limits, in the mountains of Minami-ku, about an hour from Sappo...
Sukayu Onsen
A 160-Mat Mixed Bath Where the Snow Once Reached 5.66 Meters
A single mountain inn at about 890 m in the Hakkoda range, known for the Hiba Sennin-buro, a pill...
Kinugawa Onsen
A Riverside Hotel Town Two Hours From Asakusa, With a Boat Down the Gorge and a Free Footbath at the Station
A long line of big hotels on both banks of the Kinu River gorge, about two hours from Asakusa on ...
Dorogawa Onsen
A Mountain Inn Town at the Foot of Omine, Where Pilgrims Still Set Out
A street of old wooden inns at about 820 meters in the Omine mountains, built to lodge pilgrims h...
Tamagawa Onsen
A pH 1.2 Spring Pouring Out of the Ground Above Lake Tazawa
A hot-spring cure town 43 km up a mountain road from Tazawako Station, built around the Obuki sou...