🏷️ Hot Spring

4 discoveries

The Hells of Beppu (Jigoku Meguri)

A tour of seven boiling, steaming, technicolor hot springs you absolutely cannot bathe in — cobalt-blue, blood-red, and one with crocodiles — where the only thing you soak is an egg.

📍 Oita, Beppu 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

🌲 Nature

Noboribetsu Hell Valley (Jigokudani)

A steaming red-and-ochre volcanic crater that fuels Hokkaido's most famous hot-spring town, watched over by cheerful demon statues who are basically the local mascots.

📍 Hokkaido, Noboribetsu 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🍁 Autumn

✨ Experience

Shika-no-yu, Nasu's Oldest Hot Spring

A 1,300-year-old wooden bathhouse at the top of Nasu Onsen, where you soak in six cypress tubs of milky, sulfurous water at rising temperatures — a hot-spring ritual nearly unchanged for centuries.

📍 Tochigi, Nasu 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🦊 Animals

Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

In a steaming mountain valley in Nagano, wild Japanese macaques climb down each winter to soak in a hot spring — the only place in the world where monkeys are known to bathe in an onsen of their own.

📍 Nagano, Yamanouchi 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

❄️ Winter

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