Easy walk
Shima Onsen: A Light Soak
Discover Shima Onsen's healing waters, wooden houses, a Ghibli-like bridge, and Showa-era shops nestled in the mountains of Gunma, a light soak that revives you.
Off the map
Nagano with Friends: Onsen and Nakayoshi
We reach the end of our Nagano adventures, told in drawings by Sophie Dreamy: a manga café, a snowbound haikyo, and one last onsen with friends.
Frosty
Ginzan Onsen : Silver Mine Hot Springs
Ginzan Onsen takes you back to the Taisho Era, warming your toes in an ashiyu – a piping-hot footbath – while enjoying an idyllic view of falling snow.
Haunting
Kumamoto: Greenery and Limpid Water
Suizen-ji, Kumamoto Castle after the 2016 earthquake, limpid rivers and green valleys: a tour of Kumamoto Prefecture by car, train, boat and on foot, beyond the famous Laputa Road.
Easy walk
Yamanouchi: Chihiro, Monkeys & Onsen
My favourite film from the Ghibli studios is Spirited Away. A number of ryokan inspired this anime fantasy, particularly Kanaguya, near the famous Jigokudani monkeys in the town of Yamanouchi.
Easy walk
Nyuto Onsen: Tsurunoyu
I bring you in the most popular onsen in the Akita prefecture : the Nyuto onsen. We’ll then go for a nap in the Tsurunoyu ryokan.
Serene
Chatsubomigoke, The Most Enchanting Hell on Earth
Be careful, this is not the natural Onsen you want to bath in!
