Yunomori Onsen and Spa is the first in South-East Asia to combine an authentic Japanese hot spring experience with traditional Thai massages. Which is great, as onsen baths themselves relieve muscular ...

Located on the fifth floor of the Grande Centre Point Hotel in Thonglor, Let's Relax Onsen & Spa brings a slice of Japan to Bangkok. The spa features five hot spring baths filled with Gero onsen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joni Sweet is a journalist who covers travel, wellness, and adventure. A trip to an onsen is a quintessential part of a trip to ...

On the cusp of Kobe’s city limits is Arima Onsen, one of Japan’s oldest spa towns. Set amid mountains dotted with patches of green, Arima is where the gods would bathe, according to legend. In ...

Regular visitors to Japan will know all about onsen. Here in the West we'd call the nearest equivalent bathhouses or Turkish baths, both of which have rather fallen out of favour in recent times. Not ...

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The manager of an 19th-century Japanese guesthouse has apologised after its 158-year-old spa bath was found to be teeming with poisonous bacteria. The Daimaru Besso guesthouse in Fukuoka Prefecture ...