The coronavirus pandemic has hit the tourism industry hard, including in Japan — ninety percent of ryokan inns in the famous Arima hot spring resort town have been closed since the prefecture of Hyogo ...

Traditional Japanese natural hot spring bath (Onsen) next to a river in forest, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan Trump administration plans new travel ban. Here's who could be affected. I flew on 2 long-haul ...

TOKYO - Japan’s famous “onsen” hot springs were long considered unexportable, until an idea struck Mr Naoki Mita one day: What if he could condense them like espresso coffee? Mr Mita’s Tokyo-based ...

Japan has nearly 30,000 hot springs and a culture of public bathing. An Israeli American architect, Yuval Zohar, has developed a passion for it. The architect Yuval Zohar at his favorite hot spring ...

What to do during Tokyo’s long, frigid winters? Seek refuge and warmth in the many wonderful onsen (hot springs) scattered throughout the city, naturally. Here are our favorites. This immaculate onsen ...

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Located at an altitude of 700m, the Kurokawa Onsen is one of the most popular and famous onsen spots on the island of Kyushu, Japan. With six main kinds of hot springs, you can expect to relish the ...

“I want to get into a hot tub filled with warm water,” Satoshi Furukawa, Japanese surgeon and astronaut, said in an interview right after his return from the International Space Station in 2011. I can ...

TOKYO: Japan's famous "onsen" hot springs were long considered unexportable, until an idea struck Naoki Mita one day: what if he could condense them like espresso coffee? Mita's Tokyo-based venture ...