22 Best Hot Springs in Hiroshima(2025 Edition) - Area-by-area guide to day trips, hot spring inns, stunning views, and hidden hot springs

The season when we start to miss hot springs has arrived!

When it comes to hot springs, neighboring Yamaguchi and Shimane prefectures are famous...
Actually, Hiroshima has many attractive hot springs.

A hot spring with a spectacular view of the Seto Inland Sea, a famous hot spring rich in nature that springs up in the mountains,
And there are even notable hot springs that are members of the Japan Society for Preserving Secret Hot Springs.

This fall and winter, enjoy a tour of hot springs in Hiroshima that will warm your body and soul.

1. Areas surrounding Hiroshima City(Hiroshima/Fuchucho/Kaita/Kumano/Saka)
- Day trip hot spring (drop-in bath)
-Hot spring inns where you can stay overnight
2. Aki area (Kure/Takehara/ Hiroshima/ Etashima/Osakikamijima)
- Day trip hot spring (drop-in bath)
-Hot spring inns where you can stay overnight
3. Bingo Area (Fukuyama/Onomichi/Fuchu City/Mihara/Sera/Kanseki Plateau)
- Day trip hot spring (drop-in bath)
-Hot spring inns where you can stay overnight
4. Bihoku Area (Shobara/Miyoshi)
- Day trip hot spring (drop-in bath)
5. Geihoku Area (Akitakata/ Hiroshima/Akitaota)
- Day trip hot spring (drop-in bath)
-Hot spring inns where you can stay overnight
6. Miyajima Area (Hatsukaichi/Otake)
- Day trip hot spring (drop-in bath)
-Hot spring inns where you can stay overnight
★ Hiroshima Prefecture Hot Springs Map

Yunoyama Onsenkan is located at the very back of Yunoyama Onsen, which was discovered 1,200 years ago and built as a therapeutic hot spring resort by Asano Yoshinaga during the Edo period.
Alternating between the cold waterfall bath that flows from a bedrock 4 meters above ground and the warm indoor bath is incredibly refreshing and leaves you feeling refreshed.
This is a charming hot spring with many fans who have been visiting for many years.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive hot spring

The open-air observation bath at the Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima offers a spectacular view of the Seto Inland Sea.
In addition to the open-air bath, you can also enjoy the indoor bath, blower bath, and sauna.
There are also plans that include lunch at a restaurant, a hot spring bath, and a spa treatment, allowing you to spend an extraordinary time refreshing both body and mind.

• Spring quality: Sodium and calcium chloride hot spring containing low levels of radioactivity. Mineral spring classification: Hypertonic neutral low-temperature hot spring.
• open-air bath
• Sauna: Steam
• Free shuttle bus

It's about an hour's drive from Hiroshima City.
This is a carefully selected free-flowing hot spring located in Yuki Onsen, famous as Hiroshima's inner sanctum.
You can stay overnight or even visit for the day, and you can also enjoy performances of Hiroshima's traditional performing art, Kagura, which are held twice a month.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive hot spring
• Free-flowing hot spring water
• open-air bath
• Sauna: High temperature dry/mist
• Barrier-free family bath (reservation required)
• Daytime bathing OK
• There is a restaurant
• Free shuttle bus (weekdays only, reservation required)

At Kurahashi Katsurahama Onsenkan, men and women can enjoy a stone bath with a Roman bath atmosphere and an ocean bath with a tropical atmosphere on alternate days each week.
The open-air baths in the large public baths on the first and third floors use 100% Kurahashi Onsen hot spring water, which is pumped up from 1,650 meters underground and has a wide range of therapeutic effects.
There is also a restaurant on the premises where you can enjoy fresh seafood and seasonal ingredients from the Seto Inland Sea, with an emphasis on locally produced and locally consumed ingredients.

• Spring quality
  Open-air bath: Weakly radioactive sodium chloride hot spring
  Main bath: Sodium chloride cold mineral spring
• open-air bath
• Sauna: Far infrared low/high temperature sauna
• Family bath (conditions apply)
• There is a restaurant

Kinoe Onsen Hotel Seifukan is located on Osakikamijima, a remote island that is not connected to the mainland by bridge.
The open-air bath, which offers a spectacular panoramic view of the Seto Inland Sea, won first place in the nation in the spectacular views category of the 2024 Hot Spring General Election.
This hot spring inn offers spectacular views of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea from all guest rooms.

• Spring quality: Cold chloride mineral spring containing a lot of sodium and calcium
• open-air bath
• sauna
• Private bath
• Daytime bathing OK

This hot spring inn is currently attracting a lot of attention, having won three awards at the World Luxury Hotel Awards 2024 in 2024 and becoming the first in Hiroshima Prefecture to officially join the Japan Society for Preserving Secret Hot Springs in June 2025.
Based on the concept of "a hot spring inn that will revitalize your mind and body," you can enjoy rooms that are in harmony with Etashima's rich nature, rare therapeutic hot springs, and meals made with local ingredients.
Etajima Onsen is a "beauty spring" that combines the characteristics of both chloride and sulfate springs, even among therapeutic springs.
In addition, you can enjoy a special sauna experience where you can relax in lukewarm water straight from the hot spring, which is not too cold, instead of a cold bath.

• Spring quality: Chloride spring, radioactive spring
• There is lukewarm water directly from the source.
• open-air bath
• Sauna: Mist sauna
• Private bath available *Limited to hotel guests
• Daytime bathing OK
• Shuttle bus (from Nakamachi Port) *Limited to hotel guests: Reservation required

This hot spring facility offers a variety of baths, including a spacious and open-air bath, a tub bath, an electric bath, and a silk bath.
Also pay attention to the different types of saunas for men and women!
There is also a restaurant and a spacious rest area where you can relax and unwind all day.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive cold mineral spring
• sauna
  Men only: Far-infrared sauna
  Women only: Salt sauna/Chinese herbal sauna
• There is a restaurant

A hot spring facility with a hot spring source discovered in Iseki, formerly Sanwa Town, in 1994.
This highly alkaline hot spring boasts a pH of 10.2, which is rare in the country, and is also known as "beautiful skin hot spring."
We also sell the "Maboroshi no Shizuku" lotion mist, which uses 100% natural hot spring water.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive hot spring

This hot spring facility is located right next to Mount Koya, a famous spot for cherry blossoms and autumn leaves.
In addition to medicinal baths and monthly changing event baths, you can also enjoy three types of saunas.
One of the things to enjoy at Sera Onsen is watching popular theater performances.
This hot spring facility allows you to enjoy a relaxing bath and theater performances while feeling the changing seasons.

• open-air bath
• Sauna: Far infrared/steam/salt
• There is a restaurant

Hotel Oufutei is a hotel with a spectacular view located in Tomonoura, a port town that once flourished as a "port for waiting for the tide."
The open-air bath, which offers a view that blends in with the Seto Inland Sea, is popular, and you can spend a comfortable time soaking in the hot water while feeling the sea breeze.
There are also rooms with private baths and open-air baths, making it suitable for a wide range of guests, from families with children to couples and solo travelers.
*We also offer a "hot spring tour service" with our sister hotel, Keishokan Sazanamitei, which is a 5-minute walk away.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive cold mineral spring
• sauna
  Men's side: Loyly sauna
  Women's side: Steam sauna
  *Men and women switch in the morning
• Private baths/ rooms with open-air baths available
• Day-trip bookings accepted (only for the large public bath and open-air bath on the 3rd floor)
• Free shuttle bus (reservation required)

Keishokan Sazanamitei was renovated in March 2024.
From the open-air bath, which offers a spectacular view of the Seto Inland Sea, you can also see Sensuijima, which is said to be "an island so beautiful that it makes even hermits drunk."
There are also rooms with private baths and open-air baths, making it suitable for a wide range of guests, from families with children to couples and solo travelers.
*We also offer a "hot spring tour service" with our sister hotel, Hotel Ofutei, which is a 5-minute walk away.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive cold mineral spring
• Private baths/rooms with open-air baths available
• Daytime bathing OK
• Dining available (reservations required, lunch only)
• Free shuttle bus (reservation required)

Onomichi Natural Hot Spring Fureai no Sato is Onomichi's first large-scale hot spring facility that offers overnight stays.
There are 13 different types of baths to enjoy, which change daily, including an open-air bath with natural hot spring water and the only large plasma bath in western Japan.
In addition to a gymnasium and multipurpose grounds, the surrounding area also houses facilities that promote health, such as a ground golf course and a softball field.
It can be used by families as well as groups.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive cold mineral spring
• There is a bathtub with free-flowing hot spring water
• open-air bath
• Sauna: Far-infrared low temperature/high temperature
• Children welcome (baby bath and baby chair available)
• Daytime bathing OK
• There is a restaurant
• Free shuttle bus (from Roadside Station Crossroad Mitsugi)

A hot spring facility located at the foot of Mount Azuma and Fukuda-gashira.
It was renovated and reopened in 2018, and has been reborn as a "health promotion facility" that not only provides relief for neuralgia and other conditions, but also a place of relaxation and healing for people of all ages.
There are two types of baths: a cypress bath and a rock bath, which change weekly.
This hot spring is popular not only with locals but also with hikers.

• Spring quality: sodium bicarbonate and chloride
  cold mineral spring

Tojo Onsen is located about a 10-minute drive from the roadside station, You Salon Tojo.
The men's and women's bathrooms each have a large bath, an open-air bath, a reclining bath, a cold bath, a jet bath, a pressure bath, a waterfall bath, and a sauna. There is also a restaurant, gym, and pool on site.
The highlight is the view of the mountain scenery and starry sky from the open-air bath, which changes with the seasons.
You can relax both your body and mind in the great outdoors of Shobara.

• Spring quality: Hypotonic alkaline cold mineral spring
• open-air bath
• sauna
• Children are welcome (children under 4 must be accompanied by a guardian when bathing).
• There is a restaurant

Takamiya Yunomori is a newly reborn hot spring facility that has been redeveloped from Daisen no Yu, a hot spring with a history of over 100 years that has been used by people seeking healing since ancient times.
You can enjoy an open-air sake bath named after the local sake rice, the only open-air carbonated bath in the northern part of the prefecture that uses carbon dioxide, an open-air rock bath, an open-air cypress bath, a unique bucket shower, a herbal bath, a sauna, and more.
In addition to accommodation facilities, there is also a restaurant and a free rest room.
You can spend a relaxing time with your family and friends while looking out at the lush countryside.

• Spring quality: Natural radon spring
• open-air bath
• Sauna: Rock sauna/wood sauna
• Family bath (private) available: Barrier-free design/bathing lift available for assistance
• Children welcome
• There is a restaurant

Donguri-so Ryuzu no Yu is a natural radon hot spring located inside Toyohira Donguri Village Roadside Station.
In winter, you can enjoy the snowy scenery from the large window in the bathroom.
In addition to the hot springs, the facility also houses a soba dojo where you can try making soba noodles, as well as sports facilities, making it a roadside station that can be enjoyed all day long, and is a great place to stop off on a drive.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive cold mineral spring
• Sauna: Mist sauna *Currently closed (as of October 2025)
• Daytime bathing OK
• There is a restaurant

Geihoku Onsen is located within Geihoku Oak Garden, on a plateau 600 meters above sea level.
From the open-air bath, you can enjoy a panoramic view of the Western Chugoku Mountains, with its chain of 1,000-meter-high mountains, as well as the changing nature of the seasons and the starry sky at night.
Accommodation is available in Japanese-style rooms with panoramic views of the Chugoku Mountains, as well as a dome-shaped glamping facility.
There is a ski resort about 15 minutes away by car, making this a popular resort facility for families and couples.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive cold mineral spring
• open-air bath
• Sauna: Far-infrared sauna
• Daytime bathing OK
• There is a restaurant

Iwatoya is a hot spring inn located in Kaguramonzen Toji Village.
You can experience the atmosphere of an old-fashioned hot spring resort while soaking in the natural radon hot spring water.
In addition to the open-air bath where you can enjoy the changing seasons, there is also a reclining bath, steam sauna, cold water bath, and even a jet bath* on the balcony that gives you a sense of openness.
This hot spring facility allows you to enjoy the atmosphere of rural Japan while also appreciating the traditional Hiroshima performing art of Hiroshima.
*The jet bath is currently out of service.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive cold mineral spring
• open-air bath
• Sauna: Steam sauna
• Daytime bathing OK
• Free shuttle bus (from "Expressway Midori Bus Stop")
• There is a restaurant

Miyahama Benimansaku no Yu is located in Miyahama Onsen, the hot spring area closest to Miyajima.
You can enjoy nine different baths, including a rock bath, a cypress bath, a bubble bath, and a jet bath.
The view from the open-air bath overlooking the Seto Inland Sea and Miyajima is a must-see.
After refreshing in the hot springs, you can enjoy our signature meal made with ingredients from Seto.

• Spring quality: Simple, low-radiation hot spring
• open-air bath
• sauna
• There is a restaurant

Yunoyado Miyahama Grand Hotel is located in Miyahama Onsen, the hot spring resort closest to Miyajima.
From the open-air observation bath "Marumieroten," you can enjoy a spectacular view that seems to merge with the Seto Inland Sea.
For overnight guests, the facility is open from 5:30 in the morning until midnight.
In the morning, you can enjoy the beautiful sunrise over Miyajima, and at night you can bathe under the starry sky.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive spring
• open-air bath
• Private baths and semi-open-air private baths available
• Daytime bathing OK
• There is a restaurant
• Free shuttle service (from Onoura Station) *Reservation required

Located at an altitude of 600-1000 meters at the foot of Megadaira Onsen Nishichugoku National Park, this resort complex includes natural hot springs and an art museum.
From the open-air bath, surrounded by the natural beauty of Yoshiwa, you can enjoy the mountain scenery of all four seasons.
In winter, it is also recommended as a hot spring bath at the adjacent ski resort, Megahira Ski Resort.

• Spring quality: alkaline simple hot spring
• open-air bath
• Daytime bathing OK
• There is a restaurant

Sekitei, a Japanese inn located on the opposite side of Miyajima.
The beautiful, well-maintained garden was ranked 4th in the 2024 Japanese Garden Ranking Shiosai Project.
There are only 12 guest rooms, each with its own unique charm and equipped with an in-room bath.
This is an inn that will heal your mind and body, perfect for spending special time with your loved ones.

• Spring quality: Simple, weakly radioactive hot spring
• open-air bath
• Room with attached bath
• Day trip plans available
• Pick-up service (from Onoura Station, Anagomeshi Ueno) *Reservation required

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