11 Other Ways To Enjoy An Onsen Town Besides Public Onsens Judging from the many instructional articles and self-help guides on onsen experience, I reckon this practice is rather unique to places outside of Japan and east Asia. Taking it a notch higher is visiting an onsen town where, as you have guessed correctly, visiting not one but many onsens as the highlight. Taking the backdrop of Kinosakionsen, this list shows what you can do in an onsen town besides taking a bath at a public onsen. And by the way, we were told that Kinosakionsen was a relatively obscure tourist attraction that the locals visited mainly. It was not famous nor modern and that fitted what we wanted exactly!