Onsen in Kanto

An index of 103 hot springs across Kanto, arranged by prefecture. Choose a name to open its page.

Ibaraki · 11

• Itsuura Onsen There is something clarifying about a place where the choice has already been made for you.
• Daigo Onsen
• Oarai Onsen There is something quietly honest about a hot spring that knows exactly what it is.
• Okukuji Onsen
• Kawanakago Onsen In the hill country of Hitachi-Ōta, in Ibaraki, there is a single inn.
• Hirakata Ko Onsen The water here comes from somewhere else.
• Tsukioi Onsen The road that follows National Route 461 into the mountains of Daigo-machi eventually thins to something quieter, the va
• Yokogawa Onsen In the northern reaches of Hitachiōta, where a road junction marks the quiet turn toward Orihashi-machi, three inns shar
• Asakawa Onsen
• Yunoami Onsen There is a particular kind of place in Japan that announces itself quietly — not through architecture or reputation, but
• Fukuroda Onsen The waters here belong to a landscape shaped by the Kuji River, which descends from Mount Yamizo through a corridor of g

Tochigi · 28

• Santogoye Onsen To reach Santogoye Onsen, you walk for roughly two hours after the ropeway lets you off on the ridge of the Nasu mountai
• Kami-Shiobara Onsen Among the eleven hot spring settlements that together form the Shiobara cluster in Tochigi Prefecture, Kami-Shiobara is
• Kami-Kawachi Onsen The waters here are young, by any measure that Japan applies to such things.
• Naka-Shiobara Onsen The waters here are simple, as the Japanese classify them — tanjun onsen, neither sulfurous nor heavily mineral, but ste
• Chuzenji Onsen The water here did not begin here.
• Sakuyama Onsen The waters here are young, as hot springs go.
• Motoyu Onsen
• Kotoku Onsen Kotoku sits in the high plateau of Oku-Nikko, several kilometers north of Lake Chūzenji, in a region where the land flat
• Hatchoyu
• Yahata Onsen
• Kaniyu
• Kita Onsen
• Komachi Onsen Komachi Onsen sits along the Boki River in the Shiobara valley of Tochigi Prefecture, one of eleven distinct hot spring
• Kitsureagawa Onsen The springs here are young — discovered only in 1981, when drilling near the ruins of Kitsureagawa Castle struck water t
• Jizo no Yu The road from Omata Station takes only a few minutes by car, yet the destination feels curiously removed from ordinary m
• Shio no Yu Onsen The waters here are salty.
• Shiogama Onsen The Hokki River runs through a narrow valley in Tochigi Prefecture, and along its banks, the small settlement of Shiogam
• Daimaru Onsen
• Otawara Onsen The waters here come from a depth of 1,050 meters, alkaline and laced with natural radon, rising through the alluvial fa
• Oku-Kinugawa Onsen
• Kagoiwa Onsen There is a particular kind of place in Japan that exists, for years, as a single inn beside a river — known mainly to th
• Kawaji Onsen Where the Kinugawa and the Ojika rivers meet, the water does what water does — it converges, slows, and pools.
• Nikko Yumoto Onsen It takes more than an hour by bus from the railway station, the road winding deeper into the mountains until the landsca
• Yunishigawa Onsen The story of this place begins not with water but with defeat.
• Nishi-Nasuno Onsen There are onsen towns that announce themselves with lanterns and souvenir shops, and then there are places like Nishi-Na
• Nasu Yumoto Onsen
• Bato Onsen
• Kinugawa Onsen The numbers tell you something before you arrive.

Gunma · 33

• Manza Onsen At eighteen hundred meters, the air is already thinner, and the first thing that reaches you is not the altitude but the
• Mifuku Onsen There is a particular kind of place that exists not to be visited but simply to be used — unremarkably, daily, by people
• Kaminohara Onsen
• Kamimoku Onsen
• Marunuma Onsen There is one inn, one lake, and one fissure in the rhyolite from which the water pushes through.
• Kyozuka Onsen
• Ikaho Onsen There are three hundred and sixty-five stone steps rising up the slope, and along them, almost vertically, a town has ar
• Handeki Onsen The road into Tsumagoi village in Gunma Prefecture does not announce itself.
• Agatsuma Kyo Onsen
• Shima Onsen The name itself carries a kind of quiet extravagance — four ten-thousands, shiman, as if to say the waters here might cu
• Shima Onsen (Hinagami Onsen)
• Shiokawara Onsen The bus from Numata takes about half an hour, winding through Kawaba village until the landscape settles into something
• Otsuka Onsen There is one inn, and that is all.
• Namesawa Onsen
• Okutsumagoi Onsen There is a particular kind of place in Japan that does not announce itself.
• Tsumagoi Onsen There is a particular kind of place that exists only in memory — not because it was celebrated, but because it was quiet
• Tsumagoi Baragi Onsen The waters here are alkaline and simple — tanjun-sen, as the Japanese classify them — which means they carry no sharp mi
• Takaragawa Onsen
• Miyayama Onsen The water here was not sought.
• Ozumi Onsen
• Shiriyake Onsen The waters here do not wait inside a building.
• Oze Tokura Onsen The road into Katashina village follows the contours of the mountains rather than fighting them, and by the time you rea
• Kawanaka Onsen
• Kawaba Onsen The road from Numata rises gradually into the folds of Gunma's interior, and after twenty minutes or so the valley opens
• Tsumakoi Onsen In the mountain folds of Agatsuma District, Gunma, there is a single inn beside a prefectural road, and almost nothing e
• Minakami Onsen The waters here have been known since the sixteenth century, when, according to local tradition, a monk named Kaio disco
• Asamagakushi Onsen
• Mikuni Onsen
• Katashina Onsen The road from Numata takes the better part of an hour and a half by bus, climbing steadily into the mountains of Gunma a
• Oigami Onsen The gorge carved by the Katashina River is deep enough that you sense its presence before you see it — a coolness rising
• Kusatsu Onsen What strikes you first is not the sight but the volume — more than 32,300 liters per minute, rising ceaselessly from the
• Akagi Onsen
• Akagi Kogen Onsen

Saitama · 7

• Fudo no Yu There is only one inn here.
• Ryokami Onsen At the foot of Shiroiwa-yama — Ryokami Onsen sits without ceremony.
• Kitamoto Onsen
• Yoshikawa Onsen What arrives first is the water itself — carbonated, drawn from fifteen hundred meters below the hills of Miki City.
• Saiboku Tennen Onsen There are places in Japan where the ground gives up something unexpected, and the land around Hidaka city in Saitama is
• Saitama Seikaji Onsen The source was found in 1999, somewhere beneath the quiet fields of Seikaji, in the western reaches of Saitama City.
• Chichibu Onsen Chichibu sits in the folds of mountains that press close on all sides, an hour or so west of Tokyo by rail yet belonging

Chiba · 17

• Motoyu Shirahama Onsen
• Katsuura Onsen The waters here have been known since the Keichō era, the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, which in the lif
• Katsuura Ubara Onsen
• Chikura Nanaura Onsen
• Chikura Motoyu Onsen
• Chikura Kaigan Onsen
• Chikura Kaitei Onsen
• Chikura Onsen At the southern tip of the Boso Peninsula, the land runs out and gives way to the Pacific.
• Chikura Setohama Onsen
• Minami Boso Iwai Onsen The waters here are not of one kind.
• Minami Boso Shirahama Onsen
• Tateyama Onsen
• Shirahama Mejima Onsen
• Shirahama Yumoto Onsen
• Shirahama Nojima Onsen
• Shirahama Iidaya Onsen
• Kamogawa Onsen

Tokyo · 2

• Oshima Onsen The water here did not exist, strictly speaking, until 1986.
• Shikinejima Onsen

Kanagawa · 5

• Tonosawa Onsen
• Ohiradai Onsen
• Miyanoshita Onsen
• Yugawara Onsen The waters here rise from the remnant caldera of a volcano that ceased its work hundreds of thousands of years ago, and
• Hakone-Yumoto Onsen