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For tattooed travelers, Japan’s onsen culture has historically presented a frustrating paradox: the country offers some of the world’s most extraordinary hot spring experiences, yet traditional baths have often turned away gu...

Kinosaki Onsen, on the Japan Sea coast of Hyogo Prefecture, is the closest thing Japan has to a perfectly realized onsen village. A willow-lined canal runs through the center of town. Seven public bathhouses — each architecturally distin...

Japan’s onsen towns have long enchanted visitors from around the world. But what if you didn’t have to leave? A growing number of foreigners are discovering that these same towns — famous for their steaming hot springs and st...

Kusatsu Onsen is the kind of place that ruins you for ordinary life. The sulfurous steam rising from the yubatake at dawn, the silence of snow-covered lanes in winter, the impossibly clear mountain air — after a few months here, the thou...

Beppu and Yufuin sit just 45 minutes apart in Oita Prefecture, but they represent two completely different visions of onsen life. Beppu is a working city with industrial-scale hot springs, a university, a port, and a scruffy, unpretentio...