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A skier walks a lane cut through head-high snowbanks between inns at Akakura Onsen
Shop lights glow along the snowy main street of Akakura Onsen on a winter night

Akakura Onsen

Akakura Onsen · Niigata

Onsen town¥600, about CAD 5.40 or USD 3.80 (October 2026 rates)

Taki no Yu's white bathhouse sits above a mossy stone wall at Akakura Onsen in October
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Taki no Yu (Akakura Onsen)

Akakura Onsen · Niigata

Day use¥600, about CAD 5.40 or USD 3.80 (October 2026 rates)

Walkers follow a stone-walled lane through Arima Onsen as the maples turn in November
An old senbei shop sits on a bend of the road up through Arima Onsen in autumn

Arima Onsen

Kobe · Hyogo

Onsen town¥700, about CAD 6.30 or USD 4.40 (October 2026 rates)

A road winds across the grassy upper slopes of Aso as sunbeams break through storm cloud over the volcanic peaksPhoto of Aso

Aso Bochu Onsen Yume no Yu

Aso · Kumamoto

Day use¥400, about CAD 3.60 or USD 2.50 (October 2026 rates)

Snow piles on the stone banks and willows of the Otani River in Kinosaki Onsen in FebruaryAsturio Cantabrio / Wikimedia Commons

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Can you go in an onsen in Japan with a tattoo?

Some of Japan's baths take tattoos, some want them under a cover sticker, and most publish no rule at all. Here is the routine at the taps and in the tub, the baths that say yes, and the ones that say no.

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Snow-capped Mount Fuji rises above Suruga Bay in a February view from Mount Daruma in western IzuPhoto of Izu and Fuji
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Benifuji no Yu

Yamanashi

Day use¥900, about CAD 8.10 or USD 5.70 (October 2026 rates)

Lit windows glow across the wooden tiers of Dogo Onsen Honkan in Matsuyama at blue hour.
Dogo Onsen Honkan's tiled roofs and red-and-white bunting sit at a street corner in Matsuyama.

Dogo Onsen Honkan

Matsuyama · Ehime

Public bath¥700, about CAD 6.30 or USD 4.40 (October 2026 rates)

Lanterns light the courtyard of Dogo Onsen Asuka-no-Yu after dark.
The front of Dogo Onsen Asuka-no-Yu glows under a clear evening sky in Matsuyama.

Dogo Onsen Asuka-no-Yu

Matsuyama · Ehime

Public bath¥610, about CAD 5.50 or USD 3.90 (October 2026 rates)

Indigo noren curtains hang over the entrance of Dogo Onsen Tsubaki-no-Yu in Matsuyama.

Dogo Onsen Tsubaki-no-Yu

Matsuyama · Ehime

Public bath¥500, about CAD 4.50 or USD 3.20 (October 2026 rates)

Autumn colour lights the slopes behind Echigo-Yuzawa town under a clear blue sky
Snowy roofs of Echigo-Yuzawa spread below a white mountain range seen from the station

Echigo-Yuzawa Onsen

Yuzawa · Niigata

Onsen town¥850, about CAD 7.60 or USD 5.40 (October 2026 rates)

Snow-capped Mt. Fuji rises behind the Fuji-chobo no Yu Yurari bathhouse in Narusawa.

Fuji-chobo no Yu Yurari

Yamanashi

Day use¥1,400, about CAD 13 or USD 8.80 (October 2026 rates)

Gondola cabins at Hunter Mountain Shiobara pass a tower against a clear October skyPhoto of Shiobara Onsen

Fuku no Yu

Shiobara Onsen · Tochigi

Day use¥750, about CAD 6.70 or USD 4.70 (October 2026 rates)

Snow lines the banks of the Hida River as it flows past the inns of Gero Onsen in January
The rocky Hida River leads to the hotels and wooded hills of Gero Onsen in the view from Mutsumi Bridge

Gero Onsen

Gero Onsen · Gifu

Onsen town¥470, about CAD 4.20 or USD 3 (October 2026 rates)

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