While staying at Sui Suwako in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, visitors can enjoy open-air bathing on the inn’s rooftop area that overlooks Lake Suwa. However, when you arrive at the entrance of the ...
Too hot. Too cold. Just right. Ahhh. Majestic Quapaw Baths & Spa, a domed, Spanish Revival structure on historic Bathhouse Row in Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park, has four public soaking pools of ...
From onsens in Japan to high-altitude pools in Bolivia, the photographer Greta Rybus shares highlights from her search for thermal waters. Looking out from the simple changing room at a hot springs ...
You may be a bit surprised at how many things there are to do at Hot Springs National Park. Going into our visit to Hot Springs NP in Arkansas we really were not sure what to expect. Would there be a ...
In Japan, soaking in natural hot springs is a treasured pastime that’s steeped in thousands of years of tradition, and during my stay there, I visited a few. The experience opened my eyes (and pores) ...
Most travelers have never visited a place like Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas. “People, I think a lot of times, they're like, ‘Oh, hot springs! I've been to hot springs in Colorado’ or ‘I've ...
Thermal bathing is an interesting concept, anthropologically speaking. Archaeologists have traced the practice back to before 11,000 BC – though experts aren’t entirely certain whether a dip in a ...