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Dogo Onsen

A hot spring town in Matsuyama centred on the Dogo Onsen Honkan bathhouse, with water from 18 sources served neither heated nor diluted.

Matsuyama · Ehime

Onsen & Wellness

Yamashiro Onsen

Hokuriku hot spring town built around its public baths, keeping a traditional soyu bathhouse culture and the historic yunogawa town atmosphere.

Kaga · Ishikawa

Activity & Sport

Yamagata Zao Onsen Ski Resort

Ski resort above the Zao Onsen hot spring village in Yamagata, with 305 hectares of slopes, three ropeways and runs through the snow-covered trees called juhyo.

Yamagata

Onsen & Wellness

Tamatsukuri Onsen

A hot spring town on the Tamayu River, praised in the Nara-period Izumo Fudoki for water that beautifies the skin, and once a centre of magatama making.

Matsue · Shimane

Onsen & Wellness

Shibu Onsen

Hot spring town with over 1,300 years of history and nine public baths fed by natural springs, each believed to bring its own distinct health benefits.

Yamanouchi · Nagano

Onsen & Wellness

Sakakibara Onsen

Hot spring area in Tsu, Mie, praised in The Pillow Book and once a place where pilgrims purified themselves before visiting Ise Jingu.

Tsu · Mie

Onsen & Wellness

Kurokawa Onsen

Hot spring village of about 30 ryokan in the mountains beyond Aso, where one bath pass, the nyuto tegata, opens the open-air baths of 25 inns.

Minamioguni · Kumamoto

Amusement Park

Aso Farm Land

Health and leisure resort in Aso-Kuju National Park with an outdoor play area, a petting zoo of about 35 kinds of animals, hot springs and a dome hotel.

Minamiaso · Kumamoto

Lake

Lake Shikotsu

Hokkaido lake, the second deepest in Japan, surrounded by three volcanoes and notable as the nation's northernmost ice-free body of water.

Chitose · Hokkaido

Shrine

Isaniwa Shrine

A Shinto shrine in Matsuyama with roots in a visit by Emperor Chuai and Empress Jingu to Dogo Onsen, enshrining multiple emperors as cultural treasures.

Matsuyama · Ehime

Onsen & Wellness

Wakura Onsen

A hot spring town on Nanao Bay, said to date back about 1,200 years, with a salty spring that once rose from the sea and a white heron founding legend.

Nanao · Ishikawa

Amusement Park

Nagashima Spa Land

Amusement park in Kuwana, Mie, home to Steel Dragon 2000, the longest roller coaster in Japan, and Hakugei, the first hybrid coaster in Asia.

Kuwana · Mie

Onsen & Wellness

Ginzan Onsen

A nostalgic Taisho-era hot-spring town in the Yamagata mountains, lined with wooden inns along a gas-lit river - at its most magical under snow.

Obanazawa · Yamagata

Onsen & Wellness

Kinosaki Onsen

A hot spring resort with documented origins dating to 720, Kinosaki Onsen draws visitors for its mineral-rich thermal waters and mountainside views.

Toyooka · Hyogo

Temple

Yakuoin Onsenji Temple

Temple in Kaga traditionally attributed to Myokaku Shonin, credited with developing the Japanese syllabary, who is believed to be buried here.

Kaga · Ishikawa

Onsen & Wellness

Beppu Hells

Seven vividly coloured hot springs in Beppu - from a cobalt-blue pool to a blood-red pond - too hot to bathe in, but spectacular to see.

Beppu · Oita

Onsen & Wellness

Solaniwa Onsen

This Osaka hot spring park features natural spring water baths in a Muromachi and Edo-period setting, complete with a 3,000-square-meter rooftop garden.

Osaka

Onsen & Wellness

SAUNA MOTHER

A single-room sauna in Roppongi built around the idea of being an infant again, with a womb-shaped hot room and a sofa that holds and rocks the user.

Tokyo

Onsen & Wellness

Dogo Onsen

A hot spring town in Matsuyama centred on the Dogo Onsen Honkan bathhouse, with water from 18 sources served neither heated nor diluted.

Matsuyama · Ehime

Onsen & Wellness

Yamashiro Onsen

Hokuriku hot spring town built around its public baths, keeping a traditional soyu bathhouse culture and the historic yunogawa town atmosphere.

Kaga · Ishikawa

Activity & Sport

Yamagata Zao Onsen Ski Resort

Ski resort above the Zao Onsen hot spring village in Yamagata, with 305 hectares of slopes, three ropeways and runs through the snow-covered trees called juhyo.

Yamagata

Onsen & Wellness

Tamatsukuri Onsen

A hot spring town on the Tamayu River, praised in the Nara-period Izumo Fudoki for water that beautifies the skin, and once a centre of magatama making.

Matsue · Shimane

Onsen & Wellness

Shibu Onsen

Hot spring town with over 1,300 years of history and nine public baths fed by natural springs, each believed to bring its own distinct health benefits.

Yamanouchi · Nagano

Onsen & Wellness

Sakakibara Onsen

Hot spring area in Tsu, Mie, praised in The Pillow Book and once a place where pilgrims purified themselves before visiting Ise Jingu.

Tsu · Mie

Onsen & Wellness

Kurokawa Onsen

Hot spring village of about 30 ryokan in the mountains beyond Aso, where one bath pass, the nyuto tegata, opens the open-air baths of 25 inns.

Minamioguni · Kumamoto

Amusement Park

Aso Farm Land

Health and leisure resort in Aso-Kuju National Park with an outdoor play area, a petting zoo of about 35 kinds of animals, hot springs and a dome hotel.

Minamiaso · Kumamoto

Lake

Lake Shikotsu

Hokkaido lake, the second deepest in Japan, surrounded by three volcanoes and notable as the nation's northernmost ice-free body of water.

Chitose · Hokkaido

Shrine

Isaniwa Shrine

A Shinto shrine in Matsuyama with roots in a visit by Emperor Chuai and Empress Jingu to Dogo Onsen, enshrining multiple emperors as cultural treasures.

Matsuyama · Ehime

Onsen & Wellness

Wakura Onsen

A hot spring town on Nanao Bay, said to date back about 1,200 years, with a salty spring that once rose from the sea and a white heron founding legend.

Nanao · Ishikawa

Amusement Park

Nagashima Spa Land

Amusement park in Kuwana, Mie, home to Steel Dragon 2000, the longest roller coaster in Japan, and Hakugei, the first hybrid coaster in Asia.

Kuwana · Mie

Onsen & Wellness

Ginzan Onsen

A nostalgic Taisho-era hot-spring town in the Yamagata mountains, lined with wooden inns along a gas-lit river - at its most magical under snow.

Obanazawa · Yamagata

Onsen & Wellness

Kinosaki Onsen

A hot spring resort with documented origins dating to 720, Kinosaki Onsen draws visitors for its mineral-rich thermal waters and mountainside views.

Toyooka · Hyogo

Temple

Yakuoin Onsenji Temple

Temple in Kaga traditionally attributed to Myokaku Shonin, credited with developing the Japanese syllabary, who is believed to be buried here.

Kaga · Ishikawa

Onsen & Wellness

Beppu Hells

Seven vividly coloured hot springs in Beppu - from a cobalt-blue pool to a blood-red pond - too hot to bathe in, but spectacular to see.

Beppu · Oita

Onsen & Wellness

Solaniwa Onsen

This Osaka hot spring park features natural spring water baths in a Muromachi and Edo-period setting, complete with a 3,000-square-meter rooftop garden.

Osaka

Onsen & Wellness

SAUNA MOTHER

A single-room sauna in Roppongi built around the idea of being an infant again, with a womb-shaped hot room and a sofa that holds and rocks the user.

Tokyo

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