Kyushu & Okinawa

6 onsen areas

Ureshino Onsen

One of Japan's three great beauty-skin springs, in the tea hills of Saga: silky sodium-bicarbonate water that leaves skin smooth, a river running through the resort, and the melting onsen yudōfu simmered in the spring itself.

24 places

Nagasaki

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Nagasaki

Unzen Onsen

雲仙温泉

Nagasaki highland onsen inside Unzen-Amakusa National Park (Japan's first, 1934). Steam vents of the Unzen Jigoku spread through the town center.

7 places

Kumamoto

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Kumamoto

Kurokawa Onsen

黒川温泉

Aso-region onsen village treated as a single inn — a wooden bath-hopping pass (nyūtō tegata) opens three rotenburo of your choice across the participating ryokan.

33 places

Oita

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Oita

Yufuin Onsen

由布院温泉

Pastoral basin under Mount Yufu, famous for ryokan with private rotenburo, craft shops along Yunotsubo Street, and the morning mist over Lake Kinrin.

65 places

Oita

Beppu Onsen

別府温泉郷

Eight distinct onsen districts (Beppu Hatto) — Kannawa, Myoban, Kankaiji, Hamawaki, Kamegawa, Horita, Shibaseki, central Beppu — and more spring sources than any other city in Japan.

176 places

Kagoshima

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Kagoshima

Ibusuki Onsen

指宿温泉

Southern-Kyushu beach onsen famous for natural sand baths — bathers are buried in geothermally-warmed sand by the ocean.

15 places