After six previous trips exploring Japan’s more well-trodden regions like Kansai and Kanto, I was ready to see a different ...

Kyushu is Japan’s third-largest island, and yet hardly anyone I know has been. It’s a total shame, because the region is ...

We catch up with writer and food personality Yukari Sakamoto on why she's been visiting the famed hot spring since the 80s.

While it’s easy to find an onsen in Tokyo ... Development Through Sunsets and Sunrises in Japan. Surrounded by lush greenery, Akazawa Onsen Village in Izu boasts not one but five infinity ...

These range from secluded hole-in-the-wall tubs to vast steaming basins dotted throughout the village. Nozawa Onsen’s public onsen, heated by thermal springs under the mountain, are also ...

a soothing onsen hotel In Japan’s bucolic northeast, Hoshino Resorts KAI Akiu breathes new life into a sleepy hot spring village without betraying its ancient roots The new hotels you’ll want to stay ...

And while communal onsen are available ... Naoshima is arguably the most famous of Japan’s art islands and now there's even more reason to visit. When Naoshima Ryokan Roka opened its doors ...

One of Japan's top luxury hotel firms will open an "onsen" hot spring resort in upstate New York that it says will be the first Japanese-run venture of its kind in the United States. Japanese ...

Beppu is widely known as one of Japan’s top onsen destinations ... Surrounded by lush greenery, Akazawa Onsen Village in Izu boasts not one but five infinity hot spring baths, all with ...