Soaking in hot springs may help reduce pain, alleviate stress, and improve your skin, among other possible wellness benefits.

Amanda Eyre Ward is a New York Times-bestselling novelist whose novel THE JETSETTERS was a Reese's Book Club pick. Amanda writes about travel, food, and wellness for Travel + Leisure, Texas Monthly, ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers explored how bathing in Japanese hot springs affects the gut microbiota of healthy individuals. Their results provide ...

Soaking in hot water feels great and leaves your skin feeling soft. But can bottled thermal water in beauty products still soften your skin? In other words, is it the heat in the bath that helps your ...

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They found that bathing in hot springs subtly reshapes the snow monkeys’ relationships with their parasites and gut microbes. The macaques that bathe showed different lice distributions and gut ...

Lace up skates, dine in an igloo, go stargazing, drink a hot cocktail. Here are lots of places and ways to delight in the season, whether you’re chilling outside or getting cozy indoors. Yes, you can ...

I recently stayed at Hoshinoya Guguan, a hot-spring resort located in a majestic valley in Taiwan. The resort has massive rooms with private hot-spring baths and breathtaking mountain views. We were ...

It was a cold February day in northern Japan, snow piled high outside the onsen locker room windows as I slipped out of my clothes. Nervously, I stepped into the plumes of steam wafting from the next ...