----------------------------------- sanji Sat May 12, 2012 6:52 pm Best Onsen in Japan - rated by Tabihikaku and Tripadvisor ----------------------------------- Rating is a popular activity nowadays. And onsen are something worth rating... Here is the first rating from The first 20 onsen towns are : 1) Kusatsu Onsen (Gunma-ken) 2) Yufuin Onsen (Oita-ken) 3) Arima Onsen (Hyogo-ken) 4) Noboribetsu Onsen (Hokkaido) 5) Gero Onsen (Gifu-ken) 6) Hakone-yumoto Onsen (Kanagawa-ken) 7) Kinosaki Onsen (Hyogo-ken) 8) Kurokawa Onsen (Kumamoto-ken) 9) Dogo Onsen (Ehime-ken) 10) Ikaho Onsen (Gunma-ken) 11) Beppu Onsen (Oita-ken) 12) Atami Onsen (Shizuoka-ken) 13) Gora Onsen (Kanagawa-ken) 14) Nozawa Onsen (Nagano-ken) 15) Wakura Onsen (Ishikawa-ken) 16) Ibusuki Onsen (Kagoshima-ken) 17) Shirahama Onsen (Wakayama-ken) 17) Beppu Onsen-kyo (Oita-ken) 19) Nyuto Onsen (Akita-ken) 20) Jozankei Onsen (Hokkaido) The second list from TRipadvisor focuses on hikaeri onsen (day-trip soaks), and in my opinion, is much less relevant, as it is rather selecting large industrial facilities rather than hidden hot springs... The first 20 hikaeri onsen are : 1) Healthyland Rotenburo (Ibusuki, Kagoshima) 2) Hottarakashi Onsen (Yamanashi, Yamanashi) 3) Himawari-no-yu (Shima, Mie) 4) Shika-no-yu (Nasu, Tochigi) 5) Sunaraku (Ibusuki, Kagoshima) 6) Dogo Onsen Honkan (Matsuyama, Ehime) 7) Zippuku-no-yu (Ueda, Nagano) 8) Hoheikyo Onsen (Sapporo Hokkaido) 9) Tenzan Tojikyo (Hakone, Kanagawa) 10) Takegawara Onsen (Beppu Oita) 11) Kin-no-yu (Arima Onsen, Kobe, Hyogo) 12) Terme VILLA Chulayu (Cyatan Okinawa) 13) Anakanon-no-yu (Obuse, Nagano) 14) Tenku-no-yu, Budo-no-oka Onsen (Kousyu, Yamanashi) 15) Yuami-no-shima (Kuwana, Mie) 16) Spa LaQua (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) 17) Oedo Onsen Monogatari (Koto-ku, Tokyo) 18) Spa World (Osaka, Osaka) 19) Onsen Cafe (Myoko, Nigata) 20) Hakone Kowakien Yunessan (Hakone, Kanagawa) The existence of those ratings was found on the excellent [url=http://onsensoaker.blogspot.com/]Onsen Soaker blog.