Onsen Programs
Curated onsen collections across Japan: pilgrimages, stamp tours, and regional lists you can complete one bath at a time.
Hokkaido
Tohoku
Aomori Onsen-do
A year-long hot-spring stamp rally across Aomori, the prefecture with the most public baths per resident in Japan. Clear a region's onsen to be certified a Yukko Meijin, and all 53 to master the whole prefecture.
53 places
Yamagata Onsen-do
A new prefecture-wide onsen stamp rally for Yamagata. Collect bathing stamps across its four areas, Murayama, Mogami, Shonai and Okitama, and climb the ranks toward Onsen Master.
Coming soon · September 26, 2026
Kanto
Chubu
Norikura Goyuin Meguri 2025-2027
Three different springs surface side by side in Norikura Onsen Village (Norikura Onsen-kyo, のりくら温泉郷), a highland village under Mount Norikura. Stay two nights, soak in two of the three spring types, and collect four goyuin (御湯印) seals to complete the round.
59 places · Runs October 1, 2025 to October 31, 2027
Shizuoka Nuruyu Stamp Rally
Twelve lukewarm springs across Shizuoka, from a 1910 toji ryokan in Hatake to the Umegashima mountains, collected as digital stamps in the onsen association's summer rally.
12 places · Runs July 7 to September 30, 2026
Okuhida Yukemuri Tatsujin
A bath-hopping tegata for Okuhida Onsengo, the five hot-spring villages tucked under the Northern Alps in Gifu. One pass (1,200 yen) gets you into the baths of two or three member inns; uncover three matching marks and you win an original towel.
10 places
Shibu Onsen Kuyu Meguri
Nine public bathhouses up the lane of Shibu Onsen in Nagano, each said to be good for a different ailment. Soak through all nine, stamp a prayer towel, and finish at the hilltop temple.
9 places
Kansai
Osaka Sento (268)
The official catalog of Osaka's public-bathhouse cooperative, famed for its wide variety of baths.
233 places
Kyoto Sento (1010)
The official catalog of Kyoto's public-bathhouse cooperative, from Showa machiya sento to modern sauna baths.
83 places
Hyogo Sento
The official catalog of Hyogo's public-bathhouse cooperative, from retro neighbourhood baths to natural hot-spring sento.
72 places
Kisen Onsen Shugendo
A pilgrimage-style stamp rally over the Kii Peninsula's sacred routes, with a bathing circuit across Wakayama, Osaka, Nara and Mie.
68 places
Wakayama 12-Tou
An official onsen pilgrimage across Wakayama: collect stamps from its twelve onsen areas to earn the Mastery Card.
39 places
Kinosaki Sotoyu Meguri
Seven public bathhouses in the willow-lined onsen town of Kinosaki, where the whole town is the inn.
7 places
Shikoku
Kyushu & Okinawa
Kyushu 88 Onsen-do
A Kyushu-wide onsen stamp pilgrimage of source-quality springs across all seven prefectures; collect 88 stamps to climb its ranks.
160 places
Beppu Hatto Onsen-do
Japan's original onsen stamp pilgrimage across Beppu's eight hot-spring areas; eighty-eight stamps earn the rank of Onsen Meijin.
151 places
Kagoshima Yumeguri-cho
Kagoshima's bath-hopping stamp book, a pocket guide to the prefecture's onsen-sento, most of them genuine natural hot springs.
54 places
Kirishima Yutabi
An onsen stamp rally around Kirishima in Kagoshima, run on a phone app by the Kirishima City Tourism Association. Soak at the member baths, collect digital stamps, and climb the sumo ranks from makushita to yokozuna; 48 stamps makes you a grand champion.
52 places
Kurokawa Onsen Nyuto Tegata
The wooden bath-hopping pass of Kurokawa Onsen, a Kumamoto village run as a single inn; one pass opens any three rotenburo.
24 places
Across Japan
TORECO
Nationwide onsen and sauna trading cards. Each facility sells its own collectible card at the front desk (around 200 yen), some baths also hand out free digital cards by QR, and the whole collection lives in the TORECO app.
351 places
Hitou: Secluded Hot Springs
The association of secluded hot-spring inns: remote, source-quality onsen ryokan that hang a white paper lantern at the door.
132 places