Plenty of foreign visitors could make use of a journey up to Onsenji. Or at least, the Onsenji of old. This Buddhist temple sits in the pine forest midway up Mount Daishi, overlooking the spa town of ...

Hot water springs are found from one end of Japan to the other. The word for hot spring is onsen, and there are more than 3,000 of them in the country. Hot water percolates up out of the ground from ...

I'm all for riding bullet trains, enjoying the bright lights of Tokyo and attending the sumo wrestling when in Japan, but I reckon a visit to an onsen or hot-spring resort is the country's top ...