In this mountain resort town, stories of demons, white snakes rising from the mist and Buddhist monks using the boiling waters and steaming pools — onsen (hot springs) colloquially known as ...

The first thing to consider about the Japanese onsen is whether or not being naked in public bothers you. I’m not referring ...

Japan is home to 27,000 hot springs sources, but overtourism has reduced some of the country’s onsen water supply to a record low.

Japan is home to over 3,000 onsen. Our explorer visits two old hot springs to learn the significance of bathing to the Japanese spirit. Deep in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture is the town of ...

There are hot springs scattered all ... where the yunohana and onsen-gai of the past still blossom. This article by Lisa Vogt, a Washington-born and Tokyo-based photographer, originally appeared ...

Carlton, Nikko, is two hours from Tokyo in a scenic mountain town packed with historic sites. And the hotel has the planet's only Ritz-Carlton-branded hot springs.

Tokyo (CNN) — Japanese hot springs—better known as onsens—are ... but a surge in tourism has left some onsen towns running low on water; leaving local officials feeling anything but zen.

Japanese hot springs—better known ... overcrowding. Ginzan Onsen, located in the Yamagata region about 260 miles north of Tokyo, now limits entry to day trippers during winter peak season ...