but hot spring expert Kyoko Kitade said mixed bathing was practiced at only about 500 hot spring inns and communal baths across Japan in 2021, down from 1,200 or so in 1993. Many hot spring inns ...

Japan’s island of Kyushu often gets overlooked by a lot of overseas tourists ... That’s not the only local secret you’ll find here, as we were recently tipped off to a beautiful hot spring onsen ...

Japan is home to over 3,000 onsen. Our explorer visits two old hot springs to learn the significance of bathing to the Japanese spirit. Deep in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture is the town of ...

a group of eight resorts in a city that holds the largest volume of hot spring water in Japan. At Hyoten Onsen, you can take a sand bath. At Myoban Onsen, you can bathe in milky or muddy water.