Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures. Kumamoto Governor Ikuo Kabashima, who was appointed chair of the association, describes onsen as an “essential component of Japanese culture.” ...
I spent the past week in Ibusuki’s greater Kagoshima Prefecture, getting acquainted with the concept of an onsen, a cross between a hot spring and a bathhouse, where naked bathers dip in and out ...
Yakushima, off Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu ... who introduced it to the world in 1914 in words and images. Hirauchi Kaichu Onsen (Undersea Hot Spring) This hot spring gushes up from under ...