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Regional and how-to guides that answer the question first, then point to the hot springs hotels and ryokan that have the water on their own property.

Steam rising off an outdoor mineral pool at a wine-country resort, one of the hot springs in California where you can sleep beside the water Hot Springs Guide · California

Hot Springs in California: Where You Can Sleep Beside the Water

California has resort towns, off-grid retreats and wild pools, and a handful of them put a bed within steps of the soak.

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Steam rising off rock-rimmed hot springs in Oregon beside a cedar lodge cabin in a Cascades fir forest at first light Hot Springs Guide · Oregon

Hot Springs in Oregon: Where You Can Sleep Beside the Water

Oregon has resort pools you can sleep beside and free forest springs you hike into.

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Steaming hillside soaking pool in the Front Range foothills above a canyon highway, one of the hot springs near Denver, Colorado Hot Springs Guide · Colorado

Hot Springs Near Denver, Colorado: Day Trips and Overnight Soaks by Drive Time

Every soak near Denver, sorted by how long you want in the car.

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Steam rising off the Yubatake hot water field at dusk in Kusatsu Onsen, Gunma, with lit ryokan around the square Onsen Guide · Gunma, Japan

Kusatsu Onsen: Where to Stay and the Ryokan That Use the Source Water

Japan's largest natural hot spring outflow, 13 public baths and the two ryokan by the Yubatake that name their source water.

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A cedar open-air bath on the terrace of a ryokan with private onsen, steam rising over a misty autumn valley Hot Springs Guide · Japan

Ryokan With Private Onsen: Every Way to Bathe Alone in Japan

In-room baths, kashikiri slots and family baths compared, with the ryokan in Hakone, Kinosaki and Beppu that have one.

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Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs, Arkansas on an autumn morning, the historic bathhouses behind a brick promenade and a steaming spring basin Bathhouse Guide · Hot Springs, Arkansas

Bathhouses in Hot Springs, AR: Which to Book and Which Hotels Have the Water

Only two bathhouses on Bathhouse Row take bathers, Buckstaff for the 1912 ritual and Quapaw for the pools, and the Arlington has its own thermal bathhouse across the street.

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A lantern-lit lane in Arima Onsen, Kobe at dusk with rust-coloured gold spring water running in a stone channel beside the ryokan Onsen Guide · Kobe, Japan

Arima Onsen: Where to Stay and Which Ryokan Have the Gold and Silver Water

A compact onsen town on the north side of Mt Rokko in Kobe, with rust-brown gold water and colourless silver water rising from ancient seawater about six million years old.

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Steam rising off the outdoor thermal rock pools at Hanmer Springs, New Zealand on a frosty morning with snow on the ranges Hot Springs Guide · Canterbury, New Zealand

Hanmer Springs: The Thermal Pools and Where to Stay Within a Walk of Them

An alpine pool town 90 minutes from Christchurch where the thermal water belongs to the public baths, so you choose your bed by the walk to them.

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