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.

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

Relax and relieve yourself of daily stress and exhaustion

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

A cozy accommodation with its own hot spring

The beloved traditional tubs have long been a symbol of Yunomine

Drawing from two historic sources of water, this open air bath has a nostalgic atmosphere typical of traditional public baths

An accommodation with an onsen sourced from a famous hot spring water in Arima in quaint Japanese atmosphere

Try the popular onsen with its own hot spring source

A cozy onsen hotel where kids are welcome

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.

An established accommodation that offers a famous onsen and cuisines made from carefully selected ingredients

This outdoor, natural bath is even popular in winter

Fun and easy open-air hot spring bathing

Filled with divine blessings. A spacious, comfortable bath

Kinosaki’s oldest outdoor bath

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

A seaside resort hotel where every room overlooks the ocean and you can relax at the beauty salon or the pool

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

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