Like most rural towns in Japan, it has an aging population, so anyone under the age of 50 knows each other. So, yeah, there are just not that many new people to meet. The onsen is a community hub ...

The massive influx of foreign tourists has proven to be more bane than boon for the Japanese onsen [hot spring] industry.

23 to mark the opening of the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line, the shortest bullet train line in Japan. The 66-kilometer route, operated by Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu), connects Takeo-Onsen ...

Hoshinoya Karuizawa is both tied to the history of the town ... and onsen more than a century ago, the first outpost of what became the Hoshino Resorts brand, which now extends across Japan ...