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.

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

A cozy accommodation with its own hot spring

Famous for its natural boulder cave bath

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

This outdoor, natural bath is even popular in winter

A cozy onsen hotel where kids are welcome

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

The serene atmosphere and space provide a leisurely onsen experience for travelers

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

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

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

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

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

Try the popular onsen with its own hot spring source

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

Relax and relieve yourself of daily stress and exhaustion

An enormous spa resort with an undervalued hotel

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.

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