Just an 80-minute train ride west of Tokyo, Hakone offers a perfect day trip filled with scenic beauty, historical landmarks, ...

Three of these towns — Katayamazu Onsen, Yamashiro Onsen and Yamanaka Onsen — are famous for their onsen, or hot springs. In centuries past, monks and merchant seamen made pilgrimages to these ...

There’s also a kid-friendly menu of small Japanese platters. Sankaku-no-yu, one of two hot-springs facilities at Kai Poroto, features a lakeside bath. Courtesy of Hoshino Resorts ...

This spring proves popular and entails the only queue we get here. This being Japan, there’s an onsen, a natural hot spring, where I luxuriate in the warm water and wonder why I am such a fan of ...