Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and steam from seemingly every surface. Beppu (別府) in Oita Prefecture is the largest hot spring city in Japan. It produces more geothermal water per day than...

Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and steam from seemingly every surface. Beppu (別府) in Oita Prefecture is the largest hot spring...

Kinosaki Onsen: The Onsen Town You Can Walk in a Yukata

Most onsen towns ask you to choose one inn and stay put. Kinosaki asks you to leave your inn, put on a yukata and wooden sandals, and walk. Kinosaki Onsen (城崎温泉) in Hyogo Prefecture...

Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and steam from seemingly every surface. Beppu (別府) in Oita Prefecture is the largest hot spring city in...

Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and steam from seemingly every surface. Beppu (別府) in Oita Prefecture is the largest hot spring...

Kinosaki Onsen: The Onsen Town You Can Walk in a Yukata

Most onsen towns ask you to choose one inn and stay put. Kinosaki asks you to leave your inn, put on a yukata and wooden sandals, and walk. Kinosaki Onsen (城崎温泉) in Hyogo Prefecture...

Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and steam from seemingly every surface. Beppu (別府) in Oita Prefecture is the largest hot spring city in Japan. It produces more geothermal water per day than any other city on the planet. The steam is visible from the highway as you approach — columns of white rising from between apartment buildings, parking lots, and shopping streets, as if the city were gently simmering. Most onsen towns offer one type of bathing experience. Beppu offers everything: sand baths, mud baths, steam baths, conventional soaking baths in a dozen different mineral compositions, and outdoor...

Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and steam from seemingly every surface. Beppu...

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Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth...

Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and steam from seemingly every surface. Beppu (別府) in Oita Prefecture is the largest hot spring...

Nyuto Onsen: Seven Inns, Seven Springs, One Snowy Mountain

Seven inns. Seven different springs. One mountain road through beech forest that, in winter, disappears under two meters of snow. Nyuto Onsen (乳頭温泉郷) is not a town. It is a loose cluster of traditional...

Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and...

Kinosaki Onsen: The Onsen Town You Can Walk in a Yukata

Most onsen towns ask you to choose one inn...

Kurokawa Onsen: The Town That Chose Beauty Over Growth

In the 1980s, Kurokawa Onsen was dying. The small...

Ginzan Onsen: The Snow Town That Looks Like a Dream You Already Had

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Nyuto Onsen: Seven Inns, Seven Springs, One Snowy Mountain

Seven inns. Seven different springs. One mountain road through...

Beppu: The City That Runs on Hot Water

Every city in Japan has restaurants. A few have castles. Beppu has the earth itself, venting hot water and steam from seemingly every surface. Beppu...

Kinosaki Onsen: The Onsen Town You Can Walk in a Yukata

Most onsen towns ask you to choose one inn and stay put. Kinosaki asks you to leave your inn, put on a yukata and...

Kurokawa Onsen: The Town That Chose Beauty Over Growth

In the 1980s, Kurokawa Onsen was dying. The small town in a forested gorge in Kumamoto Prefecture had been losing visitors for years. The...

Ginzan Onsen: The Snow Town That Looks Like a Dream You Already Had

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Nyuto Onsen: Seven Inns, Seven Springs, One Snowy Mountain

Seven inns. Seven different springs. One mountain road through beech forest that, in winter, disappears under two meters of snow. Nyuto Onsen (乳頭温泉郷) is not...

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