CHIKUSHINO, Fukuoka Prefecture--A long-standing onsen inn here is in hot water after being found to have violated a prefectural ordinance. The Futsukaichi Onsen Daimaru Besso inn only changed the ...

Seeing no end to the complaints, the city limited the Funsenchi onsen only to clothed people who want to soak their feet in hot water. Funsenchi, measuring 6.5 meters by 5 meters, sits along the ...

We’ve visited and stayed in all of those towns and in Ryokans that have specific hot water springs onsen too. For a hot water pool to be called an onsen, then the water has to contain at least ...

Japan is home to over 3,000 onsen. Our explorer visits two old hot ... Shogun Ieharu forced their followers to bring this hot water to the Edo castle.

The Kusatsu Onsen, located at the base of the mountain, is one of Japan’s most famous hot springs and one of the leading ...

The country is home to 27,000 natural hot spring sources, but a surge in tourism has left some onsen towns running low on water; leaving local officials feeling anything but zen. One of those ...

The area is home to an onsen town of some of the country’s highest quality thermal water - but without the crowds - and ...

There are two types of bathhouses in Tokyo and throughout Japan: onsen and sento. While there are obvious similarities between the two – they're both communal hot-water baths and visitors must ...