Wear the yukata to the bath area, undress in the changing room, leave your yukata and belt in the baskets provided. While a ...

Considered as a spiritual, cultural and hygienic practice, bathing in Japan comes with unspoken rules and etiquette. Across ...

Japanese onsens -- bath houses where patrons relax naked together ... "The move will mark the first opening of an onsen inn ...

Japan correspondent Walter Sim visits Noto Peninsula, which still bears visible signs of two disasters in 2024. Read more at ...

Sukayu Onsen lies in Towada-Hachimantai National ... 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 ...

with over 3,000 “onsen” locations nationwide. For centuries, Japanese have loved hot-spring baths. This way of relaxing mind and body remains as popular as ever in Japan today and is also ...

Japan lends itself to a multi-day guided walking trip, a rich culture with a surprising amount of wilderness to explore, ...

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 ...

MATSUYAMA—At Dogo Onsen here, the iconic ... The historic building, the first public bathhouse in Japan to be designated as an Important Cultural Property in 1994, has maintained its appeal ...

Kinosaki Onsen is a small town faces the Sea of Japan to its north ... enjoy the hot springs here is to visit all of the 7 public baths in the town. A sparkling otherworldly thermal utopia ...