Best Hot Springs (Onsen) & Bath Houses (Sento) around Kansai Spot List

One of Kyoto's most famous hot springs, famous as “hot water for beautiful skin,” the water has a thick texture and makes your skin very smooth.

Arima Hot Spring, located an hour's trip away from Osaka, is known as a retreat in the Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe areas. It is famous for being one of Japan's three oldest hot springs.

The most popular of Kinosaki’s outdoor baths. The dynamic waterfall is a favorite

Relax and relieve yourself of daily stress and exhaustion

A colorless hot spring on a small, quiet road. The ”silver spring” is both carbonated and enriched with radium

Kinosaki’s oldest outdoor bath

This outdoor, natural bath is even popular in winter

A vast, luxurious resort of 198,000 square meters filled with nature

The entire place has a classic feel. This public bath is filled with unrivaled nostalgia

Try the popular onsen with its own hot spring source

An enormous spa resort with an undervalued hotel

Conveniently located next to the station. A completely western-style outdoor bath

A traditional accommodation with a Japanese-style garden of 1,980 square meters that was painstakingly landscaped

Kansai's most famous dark-colored hot springs. The golden hot spring water is rich in sodium and iron

A cozy onsen hotel where kids are welcome

Fun and easy open-air hot spring bathing

The beloved traditional tubs have long been a symbol of Yunomine

Soak in the hot springs while looking out through the pine forest at Shirahama Beach

Relax at the first onsen in the Kansai region approved by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare as a facility promoting health through onsen bathing

A cozy accommodation with its own hot spring