Photo courtesy of Nyuto Onsenkyo Ganiba Onsen
You can’t have a trip to Japan complete without visiting an onsen.
If you’ve made it all the way to Japan, you mostly likely want to experience the customs and tradition before leaving, and onsen are a perfect way to do so.
Have you ever heard of an onsen town?
An onsen town is an area with many hotels and traditional Japanese inns (ryokan) all surrounding a hot spring.
For example, we will later go into detail about Kusatsu Onsen, which includes around 170 hotels and ryokans that all supply the natural water from the hot spring that flows through the ground of the town to their guests.
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