A 22-year-old woman has been arrested for collaborating with four Chinese accomplices to steal credit cards from customers at an onsen spa in central Bangkok. The woman, identified as Ms Thanchanok ...

BANGKOK: A Thai woman was arrested on Wednesday (Jan 8) for allegedly collaborating with another Thai woman and a Chinese man to steal credit cards from clients at an Onsen spa in Bangkok and using ...

The manager of an 19th-century Japanese guesthouse has apologised after its 158-year-old spa bath was found to be teeming with poisonous bacteria. The Daimaru Besso guesthouse in Fukuoka Prefecture ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joni Sweet is a journalist who covers travel, wellness, and adventure. A trip to an onsen is a quintessential part of a trip to ...

Located on the fifth floor of the Grande Centre Point Hotel in Thonglor, Let's Relax Onsen & Spa brings a slice of Japan to Bangkok. The spa features five hot spring baths filled with Gero onsen ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I thought seeing Mt Fuji in sunshine couldn’t be topped, but then I had a bath. A Japanese one. In public. In the nude. When I say in ...

Regular visitors to Japan will know all about onsen. Here in the West we'd call the nearest equivalent bathhouses or Turkish baths, both of which have rather fallen out of favour in recent times. Not ...

Not in Japan? No problem – these four wellness centres offer a 21st century take on the Japanese hot spring bathing tradition, in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines There’s nothing ...