Top 11 Recommended Onsen(Hot springs) in Tokyo

This picture-perfect hot springs facility is where you’ll find easy access to baths made from natural cypress and Japanese cypress so you can bask in the full relaxing therapy of wooden aroma. The open-air baths are hugged by nature, provide a space to soak while taking in the scenery. There is also a mist sauna, dry sauna, and cold water bath available. Shampoo, conditioner, and body soap are provided, along with amenities like bath towels and lounge wear for rent, ensuring you can drop in empty handed.

A traditional public bath established in 1923, Shimizu-yu features two types of natural hot springs to try: Kuroyu (black water) and Kogane-yu (golden water), both luxuriously flowing directly from the source. Many onsen-lovers visit here for the chance to dip in two different kinds of natural hot springs at affordable public bath prices. The amber-colored Kuroyu, springing from 200 meters deep is particularly fine-grained and clear in comparison to Tokyo's black hot springs. Known for its high moisturizing and heat-retaining properties, the waters here are acclaimed for their beautifying effects.

Step in to find hot springs anywhere between the 5th and 9th floors of LaQua, one of the buildings at Tokyo Dome. In the center of the city, you can enjoy natural hot springs bubbling up from 1,700 meters below the surface.
Besides outdoor and large baths using natural hot spring water, there is a wide variety of baths highly effective for health and beauty, like carbonated and oxygen springs.

Atami Onsen is a hot spring town nestled in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Across the area you’ll find an impressive count of some 500 hot spring sources, 90% of which are high-temperature springs over 42 degrees Celsius, known for their high concentration of therapeutic components. An essential part of Atami Onsen's history is the "Atami Seven Hot Springs" (Atami Shichiyu), considered important sources. Atami was once home to one of the world's three great geyser springs. Although it no longer erupts naturally, a monument near Yu-no-Kami Shrine on Ginza Street recreates this historical highlight, making it a recommended stop while heading to the hot springs to help connect with Atami's history. The waters of Atami Onsen are colorless, odorless, and known for their moisturizing and skin-beautifying effects. With a history of providing stable hot spring water for over 1,200 years, this valuable spring vein is a must-experience when visiting Atami.

Hakone-Yumoto Onsen Hot Spring Village is known as one of the seven Onsen in Hakone and the largest hot spring resort in Hakone. It is said that Hakone's Onsen were first established in the Nara period (710-794), and during the Edo period (1603-1868), it flourished as a hot spring resort along the Tokaido highway, one of the five highways of the time. Even today, Hakone is a lively place with many hot spring facilities, lodging facilities, restaurants and shops for souvinirs. This destination is a major hot spring resort among the many in Hakone, frequented by tourists everyday who’ve come for a dip.
Consider Hakone-Yumoto Station as the gateway to Hakone, where the Odakyu Limited Express Romancecar, Hakone Tozan Railway, Hakone Tozan Bus, and other transportation systems converge.

Kusatsu Onsen is popular and well known as one of Japan's three major Onsen. The site gushes naturally with as much as 32300 liters per minute, said to be the highest volume in Japan. The source waters rank as high acid, giving it an extra antibacterial boost.
Yubatake is a cover-worthy stop in Kusatsu, set with its iconic natural waters, steam and aroma that continually flow at volumes of 4000 liters per minute. Stroll around the pavement or kickback on a bench nearby as a perfect way to spend a time relaxing.

Seated in the town of Yugawara on Kanagawa Prefecture’s western coast you’ll find hot springs gushing along the Chitose River valley from the flows of Hakone Mountain. There are only a few large hotels. Most of the inns are upscale, ikkenyado-style Japanese ryokan (single-house, boutique inns in secluded quiet), which keep all the romance of a moody hot spring escape.
The river gives the prefectures its natural border, laying way for several hot spring resorts to the south in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Kinugawa Onsen sits tucked away in the upper reaches of the Kinugawa River in the city of Nikko, one of the most popular onsen in the Kanto region.
The hot spring water is tasteless, odorless, and non-habit-forming alkaline simple hot spring.
The soft, skin-friendly water is said to be effective for burns and skin diseases, as well as for gastrointestinal disorders and recovery from fatigue, making it popular among all people.
The magnificent nature along the Kinugawa River valley is another reason for its popularity, gifting visitors with the complete joy of spectacular seasonal scenery throughout the year, including fresh greenery, autumn leaves, and snowy landscapes.

The springs are said to have been first discovered by Kobo Daishi during his travels, located today at this inn in the Joshin'etsu Kogen National Park.
While the inn was established in 1875, today it still keeps the full romance of its Meiji era heyday, just as when many literary figures and artists stayed here.
Both the main building from that period and the annex built in 1940 (Showa 15) are registered as tangible cultural properties by the country.
The baths, with natural hot spring water flowing directly from the source, include the traditional mixed-gender bath "Hoshi no Yu" housed in a charming building reminiscent of the Rokumeikan, which is over a century old (available for women only from 20:00 to 22:00), the "Tamaki no Yu" with a cypress structure and open-air bath available for both men and women on a rotational basis, and the "Chojyu no Yu," a secluded bath near the Hoshi River, also available on a rotational basis for men and women.

Omaru Onsen Ryokan is a secluded hot spring inn located in the deepest parts of the highly sought-after Nasu Onsen resort area, perched in a mountainous valley at an altitude of 1,300 meters. The spot remains today a well-known retreat since ancient times. The inn is known to have been frequented by General Nogi Maresuke for therapeutic bathing every year during the Meiji era, a store outlined by exhibits for General Nogi found inside the inn.
The inn's pride is its hot springs, which are noted for keeping the largest volume in the Nasu Onsen area. Guests can enjoy a variety of hot spring baths, including the natural open-air bath "Kawa no Yu" which was designed by damming a river of hot spring water flowing from the inn's private source, and four other open-air baths of various sizes.
The baths are fed directly from the source without heating or adding water (although there is some heating during certain seasons).

Situated in the source area of the Kinugawa River in Kawamata, Nikko City, Okukinu Onsen is a hot spring village that hosts four inns, each offering baths with water from different sources. The area was once a remote gem until access roads were developed, earning it the nickname "the last hidden hot spring in the Kanto region."
Nestled within Nikko National Park, where primeval beech forests remain, vehicle access is currently prohibited to preserve nature. Some inns offer shuttle services, but the primary access is by foot. A leisurely hour-long stroll through the lush nature, followed by a relaxing dip in the hot springs is one authentic sojourn you’ll not soon forget.