With the launch of its new Blue Zone Retreat series to sake-infused cocktails at a sunset bar, the Halekulani Okinawa Hotel ...

So it came right when you parked your car at the ryokan you booked months ago. Are you going to laugh or cry during your stay ...

In Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, the Ito city will raise the bathing tax to 300 yen by October 2025 (up from 150 yen) due to a ...

Analysts hope the funds raised will be used by the local travel sector to provide better facilities and services for visitors ...

Then I tried the Onsen Waffle Bath Towel, one of the picks in our towel guide. This towel is soft and plush, like a summery throw, but it’s still very absorbent while retaining the drape and ...

One of Japan's top luxury hotel firms will open an "onsen" hot spring resort in upstate New York that it says will be the ...

And at the Onsen Hot Pools, soaking in one of the indoor and outdoor pools also includes an incredible mountain vista. Visitors find that the pools (each of which can accommodate up to four ...

The popular onsen destination in Yamagata is introducing a new ticketing system to control the number of day-trip visitors ...

Dōgo Onsen is Ehime Prefecture’s prime tourism draw. The onsen hot spring district, two kilometers from prefectural capital Matsuyama’s center, is filled with old-fashioned ryokan inns and ...

Our convivial evening with Tatsukuni comes at the end of a day during which we have travelled from urban Nagoya to rural Gujo-Hachiman on the first of a four-night Onsen Gastronomy tour through ...