Food Ponshukan – Sake Heaven Alena Eckelmann At the Ponshukan in Yuzawa, you can wait for your train while drinking vending-machine sake and bathing in an onsen where the hotspring water is enriched
11 Activities Monkey Park - Jigokudani Yoshiko Toyama This hot spring is about a 40-minute walk from Kanbayashi Onsen in Nagano.
10 Transportation Shibukawa Station Aline Laborde several buses linking you to Takasaki Station, Maebashi Station, Ikaho Onsen
20 Transportation Hakone Transport Hannah Warren Hakone is famous for its onsen, mountains and luxury ryokan.
12 Activities Water Fun in Hakone at Yunnesun Adeline Ong and Yutopia are swimsuit zones and Mori No Yu is a traditional Japanese onsen
Food Kasuké Restaurant Featured Kasuke Hoshino was the man who opened the first Hoshino Onsen Ryokan, a simple ryokan on the site of the current resort, over a hundred years ago.
15 Autumn at Kinpusen-ji Cathy Cawood Although Yoshino in Nara is famous for cherry blossom, the autumn colors around Zao Hall at World Heritage site Kinpusen-ji were beautiful.
Culture Three Tides Tattoo Perri Silverstein Beware: certain onsen (hot springs), golf resorts and gyms will not allow... regret about having tattoos is that now I can’t gain access to every onsen