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.

Relax and relieve yourself of daily stress and exhaustion

Try the popular onsen with its own hot spring source

This outdoor, natural bath is even popular in winter

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

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

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

Fun and easy open-air hot spring bathing

An enormous spa resort with an undervalued hotel

Filled with divine blessings. A spacious, comfortable bath

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

The beloved traditional tubs have long been a symbol of Yunomine

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

Kinosaki’s oldest outdoor bath

A cozy accommodation with its own hot spring

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

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

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