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.

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

Fun and easy open-air hot spring bathing

A cozy accommodation with its own hot spring

Try the popular onsen with its own hot spring source

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

An enormous spa resort with an undervalued hotel

Filled with divine blessings. A spacious, comfortable bath

Kinosaki’s oldest outdoor bath

Known as one of Japan’s top three beauty hot springs

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

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

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

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

Famous for its natural boulder cave bath

A spring born of the prayers of a Buddhist monk named Dochi

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

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

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