No trip to Japan is complete without a dip in one of the country’s quintessential hot springs.
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New Chitose Airport Onsen isn’t just convenient and gorgeous, it’s an amazingly cheap place to spend the night too!
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Sanrio’s weirdly adorable lazy egg wants to have a soak with you and his 9,999 doppelgangers.
Oh, and there’s also all-you-can-eat crab as part of the deal at this hotel in the coastal onsen resort of Atami.
This is one of the most unusual onsen in all of Japan.
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