History Main / HotSpringsEpisode

* The ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' fanfic "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6724112/1/Three-Nights Three Nights]]" pulls this off with Guts, Casca, Pippin, and Judeau finding a natural hot spring on their way to Wyndham to rescue Griffith. After Pippin and Judeau bathe off-screen, Casca aggressively but cleverly convinces Guts to take a bath by luring him to the hot spring - [[TrailOfBreadCrumbs with her as the bait.]] The tone of the fic avoids this scene from turning into a lemon, but Guts and Casca do share a very intimate moment with each other.

* Present in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}: The Third Phantom''. If you chose to play as a girl, you get more scenes than if you chose the boy.

* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' has the ''whole'' main cast going to Konoha's hotsprings, bringing along several friends from outside. The number of people forced the staff to temporarily remove the walls separating the men's and women's sides from the mixed baths in order to accommodate everyone since there were many couples who wanted to bathe together.

->'''Kamina:''' Simon look! It's a hot spring! Ohh... Ohh, a hot spring! A veritable smorgasbord of everything a man's heart truly desires and craves! A building that's sole function is to accommodate to a man's passion, fiery spirit and raging soul!\\

* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': After fighting [[EldritchAbomination Sandalphon]] in episode 17, the cast spends the rest of the day at a hot springs resort. During that time, Misato apologizes to Asuka for risking her life during the battle, and opens up to her about her parent issues.

* The ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' fanfic "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6724112/1/Three-Nights Three Nights]]" pulls this off with Guts, Casca, Pippin and Judeau finding a natural hot spring on their way to Wyndham to rescue Griffith. After Pippin and Judeau bathe off-screen, Casca aggressively but cleverly convinces Guts to take a bath by luring him to the hot spring - [[TrailOfBreadCrumbs with her as the bait.]] The tone of the fic avoids this scene from turning into a lemon, but Guts and Casca do share a very intimate moment with each other.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' had a hotspring scene in Chapter 37 in the stories version of the Cinnabar hotspring seen in anime. Unlike the canon version there is no destroyed wall and no main characters see or try to each other naked. There is a group of unnamed characters who tried or had tried though.
* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' has the ''whole'' main cast going to Konoha's hotsprings, bringing along several friends from outside. The amount of people forced the staff to temporarily remove the walls separating the men's and women's side from the mixed baths in order to accomodate everyone, since there were many couples who wanted to bathe together.

* In the 1954 film ''Film/TheBridgesAtTokoRi'', Harry Brubaker (Creator/WilliamHolden), an American fighter pilot stationed in Japan goes to a public bath with his wife Nancy (Creator/GraceKelly) and their kids. No nudity is shown, since it was 1954, but they seem to be nude, and act very shy when a Japanese family enters and disrobes for the bath next to them. Later, they relax. Pretty daring for 1954.

* ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' has the titular character take some high-ranked Americans militarymen to a onsen resort.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration,'' of all things, had one. Troi, Troi's mom, Worf and his boy Alexander all hopped into mud baths on the holodeck a couple of times.

** The same kind of situation happens in ''Dawn of the New World'' if the party goes to the hot spring at one point and have the ladies go in. Zelos tries to spy on the females (while Emil and Lloyd give him crap for it), and Lloyd gets blamed again as he's the only one didn't run. When the males take their turn, ''Marta'' tricked everyone but Emil into not coming in so she could spend time with him. When Emil finds out he ends ups calling everyone else attention. Naturally, everyone but Lloyd decide that Emil must have planned this even though both claim otherwise (and them all knowing how openly affectionate Marta is towards Emil), and Emil also gets the title "Peeping Tom".

** They're at it again in ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Vesperia}}''. There are three different scenes. To get the first two, you need to pay 300,000 gald for the first and 600,000 gald for the second. During the first two, Raven keeps trying to peek at the woman's side of the spring, with little success. The third visit is free, During the third, the party winds up working there and at the end they all get [[AndYourRewardIsClothes costume titles]].

*** Actually, the second time Raven manages to see Judith completely nude, and coerces Karol into being his accomplice. Judith appears to be aware of this, but [[MsFanservice utterly nonchalant]]. In the the final scene, after returning with the new costumes, Raven and Rita have a shouting match through the partition.

* ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'' features sex segregated springs, with the male-only one much easier to reach than the female-only one. This is also a bit of a GuideDangIt since you (naturally) need to bring soap. It's only available for a very short time at the very beginning of the game. Long before there is any hint either spring exists.

** Whatever ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki'' has to offer at first, ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki2'' turns it UpToEleven when [[CaptainErsatz Janus]] goes full blown LargeHam at peaking at the hot springs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-jBfjvbFoo Video found here.]]

* Partially averted in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', in which Ameterasu tries to go to a hot spring to relax, but the spring isn't running. You have to go on a mini quest in which you dig underground to get it flowing again.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', there's the ''Hot Spring Scramble'' DLC scenario. Chrom and the BadassCrew stop by an onsen-like bath house, some charas [[spoiler: (Lucina, Severa, Owain and Inigo)]] get dolled up in yukatas, and then the monsters attack the onsen so the group must defeat them all before they have a chance to enjoy the springs.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' goes a step further by allowing you to construct a hot spring in your personal castle, letting you experience this between each battle with a random group of your units and also gives you free control of the camera. As it's not gender segregated, there's a chance the avatar might walk in on the opposite gender bathing, upon which HilarityEnsues.

* One apparently volcanically active zone of [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]], near the Eldergleam Sanctuary, features steaming hot springs and water pools, as well as a Hunters' tent. When this one is occupied, hunters may be met clad only in the game's default underwear (unless you activated the appropriate mod, you pervert), comfortably bathing in a pool. Puzzlingly, if the player unclothes for the sake of roleplaying and tries to bath with the hunters, they will still make amused comments on the Dragonborn's own nudity.

* ''VideoGame/RadiantArc'': Once the players returns to Valeria after the boss fight with Miyuki, the party takes a break in the hot springs. Unsurprisingly, Richard tries to peek over the divider between the men and women sides while Linky tries to stop him, complete with a CG. When the divider falls, Richard tries to blame Linky, but all the men present are blamed, except for Ryder who bailed moments earlier.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Smurfs On Wheels" is basically three Smurfs on a hiking trip versus a group of Smurfs riding in Handy's new Smurf Wagon in order to get to Dreamy Steamy Springs. Naturally the hiking Smurfs get there first while the wagon-riding Smurfs only get there by way of Brainy's driving only for the vehicle to end up heading for the waterfall.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' unexpectedly ends with a particularly silly take on this. At the top of Corona Mountain, [[VillainsOutShopping Bowser is simply relaxing in a hot tub with his son Jr.]], when Mario arrives to save Peach, who Bowser Jr. thinks is his mama. Bowser, [[SuddenlyVoiced in fully voiced English dialogue]], yells at him for disturbing his family vacation, and the boss fight simply consists of Mario pounding 5 pillars to tip the hot tub over. Any fanservice is subverted (possibly because of the [[InterspeciesRomance disturbing implications]]) since Peach stays fully clothed on a rubber duck, politely refusing to go in when Jr. asks her to.

* Spring Man's level in ''VideoGame/Rockman7EP'', "Viva! Spring World!", takes place in a hot spring owned by Spring Man. Spring Man's intro even has him soaking in the hot spring before Mega Man rudely interrupts him.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Half of the Setsubun event's story is this. The main objective is to climb up a 100-story padoga, with each floor you clear tiring out your party members, due to the magical (alcohol) effects of the pagoda. Archer Inferno releases an onsen full of magical energy that helps Servants to recover twice as fast from "fatique". Every time you clear a boss floor, the post-cutscene will then show the interactions between certain groups of Servants who aren't shown in the pagoda (kings, divas and beauty-obsessed women, young boys and young men, robot-like Servants, steeds, young girls and their caretakers, {{Peeping Tom}}s, {{Hard Drinking Party Girl}}s, and Japanese men).

* On Chapter 16 in the Japan route of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX'', the teams go into hot springs in the hidden ninja village. [[Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAgressor Sakura]] asks Sonshouku from SD Gundam Sangokuden if she will rust or not. No official art.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Half of the Setsubun event's story is this. The main objective is to climb up a 100-story padoga, with each floor you clear tiring out your party members, due to magical (alcohol) effects of the pagoda. Archer Inferno releases an onsen full of magical energy that helps Servants to recover twice as fast from "fatique". Every time you clear a boss floor, the post-cutscene will then show the interactions between certain groups of Servants who aren't shown in the pagoda (kings, divas and beauty-obsessed women, young boys and young men, robot-like Servants, steeds, young girls and their caretakers, {{Peeping Tom}}s, {{Hard Drinking Party Girl}}s, and Japanese men).

[-[[caption-width-right:300:[[FridgeLogic Wait]], won't they need [[ModestyTowel those towels]] to dry off]]?]]-]

[-[[caption-width-right:300:Wait, [[FridgeLogic won't they need those towels to dry off]]?]]-]

** While absent from ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'', [[VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2 the sequel]] made up for it by making the hot springs event an animated cutscene. The party gets treated to it as a reward for paying off Ludger's 20 million gald debt. However, the hot spring they go to ends up lacking a partition, forcing them to improvise by having the guys [[FatCat (Rollo included)]] cram themselves into a water-filled, super-sized Tipo while the girls get to bathe comfortably. Hilarity and fanservice ensue.

* A recurring tradition of the ''Frnchise/TalesSeries''.

* Stage three of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'''s second fighter ''Hisoutensoku'' starts at the "The Geyser Underground Center Entrance" which Marisa describes as a hot spring. Considering this hot spring is directly a product of Touhou 11 ''Subterranean Animism'', and the next boss fight after Marisa takes place in the ''nuclear reactor'' powering the hot spring, this scene does not come out of nowhere at all. And no FanService.

** Hot springs also appear in ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire''/''Emerald'', though there is no FanDisservice here, either. (The [=NPCs=] in the Lavaridge hot spring are all elderly.) Just outside the spring, an elderly man is warming himself in some heated sand. Talk to him, and he'll remark on how good the sand feels--[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments until a Pokemon bites him in the butt.]] Perhaps dampening the comedy: the primary sand-dwelling Pokemon around there is Trapinch, a giant antlion larva with bear trap-like jaws.

* Present in all of the 5 generations of ''VideoGame/RecordOfAgarestWar''. The other present thing with this one is that [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Winfield gets beaten up by Borgnine every single time.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', Asura's old master brings him to a hot spring to recover from annihilating Kurow's airship fleet before he fights him. The goal is to get Asura drunk enough that he tries to grope the handmaiden he has serving him, before [[DynamicEntry getting waylaid]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments and knocked out cold by Augus]].

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* The ''VisualNovel/ElevenEyes'' OVA becomes one at the end. Although they are wearing bathing suits and its mixed bathing.
* ''Manga/EightOhOneTTSAirbats'': The fourth episode has the gang stopover at a local hotspring that turns out to be haunted. Or so they're lead to believe.
* Not in the series proper, but the OVA episode "Vacation" for ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'' centered around Haruyuki's friends taking him to a hot spring to help him lose weight for an upcoming physical exam. The place serves for a bit of soul searching for both him and his girlfriend Kuroyukihime. In playing with the series's rules, there also exists a virtual counterpart to the hot springs in the Accelerated World, which the characters take a dip in as their avatars.
* In the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' manga, Keiichi wins a trip to a Hot Springs Resort. Due to a series of mishaps with Chihiro and their ride, Belldandy conjures up an impromptu Hot Springs near where they breakdown to at least salvage the situation.
* ''Anime/{{Aikatsu}}'': Subverted in episode 24 of anime season 1. The audition sequence ends before the opening, the main trio is left to spend a short break opting to visit a certain idols-approved hot springs inn. They end up captivated by scenery on the final bus stretch, get off, have a picnic and a nap, with too little time left to perhaps provide the series with ''that'' kind of fanservice.
* ''Manga/AiKora'': Played for laughs and {{lampshaded}} in the same chapter, when Hachibe invites all the girls along with him to an onsen he "won" tickets for (he really worked at a bunch of several part time jobs to earn the money to buy them, unsurprisingly.) simply so he can talk to Sakurako and figure out his feelings for her and vice versa, and also to peek at the girls of course.
* ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' did this twice. In one of them, a little boy is frightened by Kaoru's terribly scarred back. This actually provides a FridgeBrilliance insight into his state of mind at this point. The fact that he didn't think of it shows that Kaoru's DarkAndTroubledPast isn't so much on his mind anymore, thanks to his TrueCompanions.
* ''[[Videogame/{{Amagami}} AmagamiSS]]'':
** Having brought Sae to the hot springs for work training, after hearing her continuous yelps from the fish nipping her legs, Tachibana [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn passes out from horniness.]]
** And [[spoiler:underclassman and swimming club member Ai]] confesses at a hidden hot spring while nude.
* ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' has the character Onsen-kun, who actually ''makes'' hot springs. Every starring episode he gets will be a hot springs episode. The show is meant for a young audience, so no FanService is intended.
* Happens in one episode of ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' with everyone wearing ModestyTowel, but with a variation: most of the scene are set in the closed-air hot spring.
* In ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', Japan has a small hot spring in his BigFancyHouse. Both in the manga and the anime, England gets to enjoy the warm water -- and befriend some spirits, like a ''kappa'' and a ''zashiki warashi''. [[TearJerker Who have to leave the house since Japan can't see them anymore]].
** In the manga... how does North Italy find out that Japan's a lightweight [[GagPenis in his pants]]? When they both take a bath in the same spring.
** Also, [[BathingBeauty Hungary and Taiwan]] bond over their love for hot springs via taking a trip to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_H%C3%A9v%C3%ADz Lake Heviz]], which is basically a huge Hungarian lake acting as such.
* The third OVA for ''[[Manga/BlueSeed Blue Seed Beyond]]'' was a long contrived Hot Springs episode where the team had to stay in the onsen itself or else a bomb would detonate and kill them all. Of note, the main plot was already resolved in the second OVA, so this was apparently nothing more than an excuse for [[FanService having female characters wear swimsuits]] (with Kusanagi in a speedo as a bonus).
* In ''Manga/Brave10'', the Braves go to Yukimura's private onsen as a reward after Ishikawa Goemon's attack on Ueda in the manga. Since this fight was cut from the anime, it appears instead in the second half of episode six after Seikai's introduction.
* Parodied in ''Anime/CandyBoy'':
-->'''[[SchoolgirlLesbians Sakuya]]:''' ''Aw, come on, Kanade-senpai.\\
[[LampshadeHanging There has to be]] a hot spring when we take a trip like this.\\
And the cliché says it's always an open-air one.\\
It'll have [[CensorSteam unnaturally thick steam]],\\
and rocks, fences and shampoo bottles [[SceneryCensor placed oh-so strategically]].''\\
[Luckily for Kanade, [[SubvertedTrope there aren't any hot springs]] at their destination...]
* ''Char's Deleted Affair'' (a ''Franchise/GundamExpandedUniverse'' manga): An artificial hot spring is constructed on Axis and the three women who are kinda interested in Char wind up trying it out, including a younger [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Haman Karn]].
* ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' takes its {{Fanservice}} above and beyond. Not only has there not been an episode yet where the characters didn't visit a hot spring, but all the regular characters are [[LocationThemeNaming called after prominent onsen]].
* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' has a hot springs chapter when the main characters go test out a new hot spring resort that's designed to cater to both humans and liminals before it opens (the house was undergoing some repairs at the time anyway). Due to how fan-service driven the series is to begin with, the chapter doesn't stand out in that regard.
* Invoked in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' by the CosplayOtakuGirl as a part of CluelessDetective activity.
* Episode 6 of ''LightNovel/DateALive'' is dedicated to everybody trying to get ''to'' the hot spring, only to face obstacles on the way. When they finally make it, [[AnIcePerson Yoshino]] accidentally freezes it solid. Fortunately, Kannazuki, who had been ordered to dig a massive hole as punishment at the beginning of the episode, uncovers a geyser, and they convert that into an onsen.
* In ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'', ''two'' multiple murders happen in hot springs. Only the second one had fanservicy scenes: Kintarou first attempts to forcibly strip Ryuu off his modesty towel, then he and Kyuu try to peep on a SexySecretary who's bathing at the other side but end up seeing ''Megu'' nude instead. [[spoiler: And the latter incident ends up being one of the clues to catch the SerialKiller... who happened to be said SexySecretary.]]
* The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series has invoked one nearly every season.
** In ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', Akari, the lone girl in the party at the time, is alone on her side of the rocks. When she notices the villains of the week approaching, she peeks around the side to tell Taiki and Zenjirou. Zenjiro gets all freaked out and accuses her of peeping.
* ''Anime/{{El Cazador de la Bruja}}'' has the main characters visit a hot spring in the middle of a Mexican desert. Lampshaded by having the characters actually say that it's common in Japan, and then by having one woman go in without a swimsuit on the grounds that that's how they do it in Japan.
* One in ''Manga/FairyTail'' with Lucy and Erza bathing together during the Loke arc.
** There is another one in chapter 261 with Lucy, Erza, Wendy, Levy and Juvia. Natsu, Gray, Jet and Droy try to do some OutdoorBathPeeping. This was initially omitted from the TV anime but was instead made as the fourth OVA where the fanservice was increased.
** There's another at the end of the Sun Village arc. Interestingly this one is unisex with Lucy and Wendy embarassed (Erza doesn't really seem to care) until they notice the guys aren't checking them out at all. They point out that thanks to their usual wacky antics they've accidentally seen them naked so many times the novelty is gone, and they proceed to enjoy their bath together without any incident.
* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', a hot spring erupts on Saito and Louise's land. Saito quickly converts it into a onsen and invites everybody to use it. Several characters had never heard of a hot spring, but agree to come when it is explained, and the girls like how it is good for the skin. They agree to have the boys and girls take turns, but the boys (except for Saito) predictably try to peep, only to be [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon blasted away]]. Tiffania faints from the heat and has to be carried out. Later that night, Saito and Louise [[TwoPersonPoolParty use the onsen together]].
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' has an episode where Kyo, Tohru, Momiji and Yuki visit the hot springs resort owned by the Sohma family. Not as much fanservice for guys, but a fair amount for the female audience.
* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu''. Episode 9, alternatively titled "The Hot Springs Episode", is a direct parody of the hot springs cliché (among others), and features three male characters trying to infiltrate a women's bath, fully protected by a steel wall between the male and female sides to prevent peeking, sentry guns and mines.
** There was also a bit of one in the original ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' in the bath on the ''[=TdD=]''.
%%* ''Manga/FushigiYugi'': The Suzaku & Seiryu seishi go to an onsen in the DVD {{Omake}}.
* Episode 19 of ''Anime/TheGalaxyRailways'' has the members of Sirius, Spica, and Vega platoons vacationing at a Hot Springs ouned by Captain Murase's parents.
* ''Manga/GetBackers'' has two. One involves Ban and Ginji mistaking Kazuki for a girl at a distance and trying to peep on him, Juubei and Kazuki cranking up the HoYay, and EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys. The other involves Shido proving that his girlfriend Madoka has him whipped, Ban and Ginji being ''very'' intimidated by the size of Shido's... [[GagPenis um...]] and EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys. Again.
* ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'': Tesshin and his pack lead Weed and the soldiers to hot springs to recover from their wounds and enjoy themselves. While there, Jerome (who went missing the episode before) is revealed to be recovering from a bullet wound, and Tesshin gives Weed a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments moving speech Gin told him to give to him]]. It's also where Weed learns to perfect the Zetzu Tenrou Battouga and uses it on a group of wild boars attacking the dogs.
* ''Anime/GinTama'' has this on episodes 131 to 134 as Stand Arc where the Yorozuya and Otae-san took on a vacation and zany misadventure about spiri... stands.
** Then on Episodes 219-B and 220, Gintoki, Shinpachi and the Shinsengumi are on this trope, now with Hedoro and his family. Hilarity ensues.
* The one in ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' takes place in episode 11, when Yukinari, Kirie, and Koyomi take a trip in the countryside. Except [[AbhorrentAdmirer Fukuyama]] and [[CuteAndPsycho his sister, Lisa]], decide to follow them. So their peaceful trip turns into a ping pong match between Kirie and Fukuyama to decide whether they got the boot, or if Kirie would have to [[spoiler: use her naked body as a loofah to wash Fukuyama's back]], if she lost.
* ''Anime/{{Gravion}}'', naturally, has a Hot Springs Resort episode, and naturally (being ''Gravion''), it still ends with a Giant Robot battle.
* One of the earlier episodes of ''VisualNovel/GreenGreen'' has the school (which has just become co-ed) opening a hot spring, and focuses mainly on the boys trying to peek on the girls, ending with the boys all breaking the fence and spilling right on top of the nude girls (no towels, with the level of fanservice the anime exhibits), and later the main character searching underwater with one of his love interests for a key, to decide whether or not the guys get access to the springs. The springs appeared at times in later episodes.
* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' subverted this during the UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated ''Remember my Love(craft)'' series, teasing a Hot Springs Episode in the NextEpisodePreview, then spending the entire running time with a shot of Nyarko's pet Shanta-while we just hear the female cast talking to one another. At one point Ato-ko says "[[LampshadeHanging I feel kind of bad about teasing the audience like this...]]"
** The trope was played straight with the OVA episode for ''Nyarko-san W'', the second TV season.
* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai''. In the second half of episode 7 Taro and some of the maids go to a bathhouse (the first half was a BeachEpisode).
* ''Manga/HanaYoriDango'' has a couple of episodes that take place at an onsen, where [[spoiler: Tsukushi passes out in the onsen and has to be rescued by Rui]].
* ''[[VideoGame/HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3]]'': There's a short [[SuperDeformed "chibi"]] anime special for that takes place at a hot spring.
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': {{Lampshade}}d and subverted in Ch. 117. [[spoiler: After the characters spent about 5 chapters trying to get to a special hot springs, the first thing Hayate and Maria do is to relax... in massage chairs. Another character even exclaims, "Why hasn't the bath scene appeared yet?!"]]
** The anime has at least two episodes centered around hot springs over its two seasons. The male main character isn't interested in peeking, unashamedly entering one of the springs when his (female) master has the effect of getting drunk. It seems the 'girls' are more likely to peek at each other in this story. And [[{{Bi The Way}} Ayumu]] is the only one who does that much.
* ''Anime/HellGirl'' has one where Hell hotline was instrumental in the building and destruction of a hot spring.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'' has one every dozen or so episodes, particularly early on; the villagers find Kagome odd for her love of "purifying herself" in springs, but she eventually turns Sango on to hot spring bathing. This results in one of the series' {{Running Gag}}s - CelibateHero Inuyasha charging to the rescue after Kagome screams (sometimes even ''[[SayMyName for him]]'') only to end up an AccidentalPervert and subjected to a "sit" command. Once ChivalrousPervert Miroku joins the band, this escalates to Inuyasha's efforts to deter his GirlWatching not only getting the monk clonked in the head by Sango's boomerang ([[HyperspaceMallet even if she's not CARRYING it]]), but Kagome "sitting" Inuyasha ''just for being present.''
* ''Manga/IonoTheFanatics'' has the cast spending approximately half of the huge first chapter in a hot spring.
* ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit'': Episode 8, which also doubles as a BeachEpisode as well, as the girls go to a hot springs that also has a swimming pool as well.
* Second season of ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'' has Usagi and Misaki vacationing at a onsen, where they unfortunately meet Usagi' father Akihiko.
* In ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' they play the cheap version in when Dino's pet turtle destroys their bath tub. (and most of the house)
* ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' has a fairly fanservice-free hot springs sequence in Episode 9 after Kaban and Serval manage to restore power to the mountain lodge. Amusingly, this bit reveals that the Friends are actually wearing clothing, something even ''they'' didn't realize until Kaban said that people usually undress before bathing ("You mean this stuff comes off?!").
* Featured in a number of chapters in ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}'' when the main characters relax in an onsen. Featured in a number of Ryotsu's childhood flashbacks.
* ''Koibana Onsen'' is about three sisters running an onsen. Twice, they take a vacation to visit an.... onsen!
* In chapters 109-110 of ''Manga/KurokoNoBasuke'', all of the main characters, plus one of the main [[OpposingSportsTeam Opposing Sports Teams]], all go to an onsen. Naturally, Fanservice abounds.
* ''Manga/LoveHina'' is set in a girls' dormitory that used to be a hot springs resort; the girls living there use the spring, and the entire show can be considered a single continuous Hot Springs Episode (except, of course, for its several [[BeachEpisode Beach Episodes]]).
* ''[[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': The cast goes to a Hot Springs or [[PublicBathhouseScene Public Bath]] together once per season. The FanService-oriented first season had this occur in the anime itself. The later two seasons relegated these episodes to the [[AudioAdaptation Sound Stages]]. The ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaViVid ViVid]]'' manga also features one (with extra fanservice).
%%* ''Anime/MagicalPokaan'' features one in which the girls have an unfortunate encounter with tanukis.
* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'': In hot spring issue of the manga the [[OutdoorBathPeeping typical gender roles usually inherent with this trope]] are inverted. Miss Shikijou encourages the other girls to spy on the boys' side. The flimsy dividing wall collapses when they try, and they all scatter, whooping and laughing.
* Early on, ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' involves quite a bit of action in the pool-sized bath, although not ''that'' kind of action. It dies down until a "Chapter 100% in the nude" appears as a break involving hot springs.
** One early chapter earns points for confining a hot bath to a steel drum barely big enough for one person. There were two in it.
* ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' has an onsen episode in which Yako does not even get to enjoy the hot springs because one of Neuro's devilish creatures was set loose on the water.
* ''Manga/MakenKi'' has two, in chapters 4 and 33 respectively:
** Yuuka decides to have the Maken-ki [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c004/18.html meet at a reserved spring,]] to welcome Takeru and Usui as their newest members and give them the chance [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c004/32.html to get acquainted.]]
** And while they're vacationing on Okino Island, the girls decide to bathe at an outdoor spring... [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c033/5.html without the guys.]] But the two of them escape and try to make in time [[OutdoorBathPeeping to see some some eye candy.]] It then becomes a test of their determination, as they try to get past [[TheGadfly Yuuka's]] [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c033/12.html traps,]] to reach the spring before the girls are finished bathing.
* The titular ship and setting of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' had a simulated hot spring on board as a sauna area. Naturally, in one episode, local pervert Uribatake and his all-male engineering crew ''just happen'' to be searching for a Jovian infiltrator when most of the female cast is using the facility. The hot springs room gets checked out ''quite'' thoroughly.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': In chapter 8 of the original manga, Kouji and his friends spending a while on a hot springs resort in a mountain. That episode was noteworthy because Mazinger-Z did not show up and it had a very funny Kouji/Sayaka moment in the hot springs (with a double LuminescentBlush included).
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'' has a fairly contrived hot springs scene where the lead couple have to survive in a snowfield, and the hero creates an improvised hot spring to keep them warm by melting and heating the snow with his heavily-damaged [[HumongousMecha robot's]] [[LaserBlade beam saber]]. It's even more contrived in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', where two of the female leads discuss things in an onsen on board a ''battleship''.
* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' has a Hot Springs Episode take up the second half of its OVA; while there's some fanservice, it's downplayed in favor of giving some character focus, something that's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the episode's title "Valentines and Hot Springs! (Please Don't Get Your Hopes Up)". The relevant manga chapter shows a bit more, averting NippleAndDimed at least for Tohru and Lucoa.
* ''Manga/MyBrothersHusband'' has Chapter 16, where Kana insists on visiting an onsen with her uncle Mike, and her father Yaichi has to invite her mother Natsuki along so that Kana has a female chaperone at the single-sex baths. What fanservice there is is low key and with the guys as the objects of attention.
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret''. Unusually for this trope, almost all the chapters involving it are set in the ''mens'' bath. There's still the obligatory fanservice, courtesy of [[LovableSexManiac Shiho]] showing up for the purposes of training up her "pervert power." This promptly leads to Rin also invading the men's bath to attempt to "seal" said pervert power.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has had a few hot springs episodes, mostly played up for comic value.
** In one episode, Naruto and friends use the hot springs as an excuse to see Kakashi's real face, only to find that he bathes with his mask on.
** In the same episode, Sakura, who is presumably naked, is seen kneeling in the adjacent bath, though they [[FanDisservice chose]] to give her a ModestyTowel instead of CensorSteam.
** In another, the cast stops by a resort on the way back from a long plot arc. LovableSexManiac Jiraiya immediately heads for the springs to take advantage of all the {{Fanservice}}. The females, in a moment of clarity decide to spend their time in the casino rather than the water. While the plot unfolds we are treated to repeated cutaways of Jiraiya sharing the water with monkeys, Sumo Wrestlers, and elderly old women. By the time the young women show up, Jiraiya has been in the hot water so long he's passed out from heat stroke.
** The post-TimeSkip series ''Shippuuden'' continues in the same vein. When the new team stays at the ''onsen'', the bathing scenes are just... bathing scenes, though we do see Naruto briefly considering peeking on Sakura. Then he's told what happened when Jiraiya tried it on Tsunade... and Sakura's her apprentice, with temper and strength to match. He decides he likes his ribs and internal organs where they are.
** In one of the post-episode vignettes, Naruto takes the Sand siblings on a tour of Konoha, including the hot springs which the Sand doesn't have. Sand ninja fan service.
** During some Shippuden Filler we see hot spring action among Team 8 before the Time Skip. Comedy ensues when Shino's bugs also come out to enjoy the spring, freaking Kiba out and amusing Kurenai and Hinata from the other side of the divided, bug-free hotspring.
* ''Anime/NatsuiroKiseki'' has one with four fourteen year-old girls, no towels and a lot of [[CensorSteam censor steam]].
* ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' pulls this in one episode in second season. Turns out that Natsume was invited along specifically [[spoiler: because there was a ''Book of Friends''-bound Youkai loose in the resort.]]
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has one settled right after a mission. It features Shinji bathing with Pen-Pen at one side, and Asuka and Misato bathing and talking at the other. Pen-Pen sees a bit more of Shinji than he probably would have wanted. Misato tells Asuka [[GoodScarsEvilScars about the scar on her torso]] and explains how she rescued Pen-Pen [[PlayingWithSyringes from a lab where he was experimented on]].
* One half of Chapter 29 in ''Manga/NewGame'' focuses on Aoba and co-workers in a hot spring.
* A couple episodes of ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' had one. The first one had Yuuto explain to Himari that she wasn't allowed to join him on the men's side, so [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she tossed him over the wall so he could be with her on the women's side]].
* Most of the finales from the ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'' gradually turn into this, for some time.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': At the end of Arabasta arc, although the fanservice there is strictly for females. When Nami catches the guys peeking on her and Vivi, she gets rid of them by flashing them, causing them to pass out and fall back on their own side. She dubs this technique the "Happiness Punch" or "Paradise Punch", depending on the version.
** There's a scene in a similar vein to a hot springs scene in the Amazon Lily arc where Luffy gets cleansed after being set on fire by the natives of the island. Despite this being LadyLand, only Marguerite, Luffy's eventual arc friend, is missing any clothing (Granted, the Amazons tend to wear little to begin with.), for no apparent reason other than law of fanservice and virtue of not being a {{Gonk}}.
* ''Manga/OutlawStar'' Episode 23, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hot Springs Planet Tenrei]]" (as might be suspected from the title) dropped its Hot Springs Episode dead smack dab in [[BreatherEpisode the middle of the series' climactic plot]] {{arc}}. This episode was dropped from the dubbed airing in the U.S. simply because of how much nudity would have to be edited out of it. However, unlike typical fanservice episodes, there is a significant plot point in this one that may lead to confusion in following episodes, as Gene obtains four exceedingly rare caster shells; that's why he really went there in the first place: he even spent most of the episode [[IgnoreTheFanservice ignoring the fanservice]] to the point that Jim [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness started to get worried about him]].
* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' :
** ''Patlabor'' had one sento episode. Which was a subversion in several ways. Firstly, it followed the male members into the bath, to locate a mad-bomber with "three moles in the left armpit". Fanservice was not a major point (though ye olde black dots got a workout), the guys never even tried to sneak a peek at the ladies' side. [[spoiler: Ironic since the bomber was a woman.]]
** In a later ''Patlabor'' OAV "Versus" , the characters are only seen coming back from the springs and the whole episode is about a contest/rivalry between Kanuka Clancy (back off the bus, on vacation) and her replacement Takeo Kumagami. Which starts with trivia questions, escalates through drunken tongue-twisters, and ends up with seeing who can throw Ohta out a window better. The only character we see in a spring is Captain Gotoh (and Ohta, but he's wearing a robe).
** Episode 4 of the original OAV ("The Tragedy of L") features Captain Gotoh sending the [=SV2=] pilots to a rural training camp, which includes a communal bath. (We get to see that Kanuka Clancy keeps a handgun with her even while she's in the bath.) During the bath scene, the water on the men's side suddenly turns red, scaring them, and from that point onward the episode becomes a ghost story. [[spoiler:Turns out it was just a [[ScoobyDooHoax hoax]] plotted by the two captains, to teach the pilots a lesson about gun safety.]]
* Episode 20 of ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation''.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** There's a hot springs ''scene'' in the first-season episode "Dig Those Diglett". It initially looks like Misty is topless in the spring, but when they rise after Pikachu points out some Diglett, it turns out she has a strapless top on her bikini. Another interesting thing is that they are not in a partitioned spring.
** The anime had a hot springs episode during the Cinnibar Island arc, where Ash and Brock are on the boy's side and Misty - wrapped in a ModestyTowel is on the girl's side... until Togepi demolishes the wall between them by activating the secret door to Blaine's Gym.
** In both, the Johto Saga and the Sinnoh Saga, there were two different episodes focusing on some Swinub finding hot springs. The Sinnoh one also introduces one of Dawn's childhood friends.
** During the Lavaridge Town two-parter, Ash and his friends take a sand bath in the first episode after cleaning up the Gym's battlefield, while in the second episode, Team Rocket take a bath in some hot springs after blasting off...until they piss off three Ursaring and blast off the second time.
** The third episode of the Unova Saga is one. Right after Ash received his Oshawott, he and Iris intend to do a sand bath, only for them to later find lout that the sand will be flooded by hot geyser. The sand bath house becomes a hot springs house in the end. And Ash meets the Sunglasses Sandile that would be caught by him 61 episodes later.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** The manga had three incidents involving hot springs. One in the G/S/C arc was used by Sabrina and, later, Red. This was not due to fanservice; they were both frostbitten by Lorelei in the previous arc and needed to recover.
** And then there's the Lavaridge Gym battle between Sapphire and Flannery -- yes, a Gym battle in a hot spring. Sapphire wanted to do it right then and there, however; Flannery and Mack used their strongest fire powers to slow down Mt. Chimney's complete death after Team Aqua killed the volcano, and it was now or never for the hot springs.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has both variations; the bathhouse more often than the springs (the bath seemed to break every other week and this was sometimes just used to start the story). One time the hot spring is large and circular, with a rock outcropping providing a wall through the middle, separating it into men's and women's sides. The men try to peek around one end, and the women try to peek around the other end ''at the same time''. They don't see anything, so they dismiss the sounds they heard as delusions.
* Somewhat subverted on ''Anime/ReadOrDie: The TV''. They all go to the hot springs, but none of the main characters remove so much as their jackets. [[spoiler:The one 'guest star' who does take off her clothes ends up brutally murdered. In the spring. And then her bodyguard activates an ancient device that destroys the springs entirely in a massive explosion. Hmm. Maybe more than 'somewhat' subverted.]]
* The ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' anime has not one, but two onsen episodes. Both involving characters accidentally seeing each other naked.
* ''LightNovel/RyuugajouNananaNoMaizoukin'' has a rare gender-swap of [[Administrivia/SeenItAMillionTimes what almost always transpires]] in hot spring episodes. Yuu gets excited by the [[InnocentInnuendo increasingly homoerotic]] conversations going on in the ''men's'' section, and she eventually pokes a hole in the wall to peek at them. She doesn't get to see much of her beloved Isshin, though, so she [[UnprovokedPervertPayback jabs Juugo in the eye for no reason.]]
* ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'' had a Hot Springs episode, giving a chance for gay Hanagata to rub up on Otaru wearing nothing but a very small towel.
* In ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Usagi and her family go to an Onsen. Then a monster shows up . . . then possessed Prince Endymion . . . and finally the other senshi. It ends with all the girls in the Onsen.
* ''[[Manga/{{Saiyuki}} Saiyuki: Reload Gunlock]]'' has an onsen scene: Sha Gojyo is draped with a towel; Cho Hakkai is just an outline in the water (but what an outline!!)
* Episode 5 of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' has the characters going to one for their Mahjong training camp.
** As well as the ending episodes of season 1, which invited every member of the mahjong team to join them before the next round started up, notably leaving behind all of the male characters.
* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' has a few instances where the characters visit hot springs, including one where Jin finds himself in one along with an AmbiguouslyGay samurai who [[spoiler: intends to kill him.]]
* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' has an episode in which the gang decides to detox at a hot springs facility. Fanservice is mocked, the class of highly problematic students end up losing their quirks and becoming normal... leading Itoshiki to re-tox them with highly caloric food. He then gets pushed onto the de-toxing spring himself, then dramatically disappears. He was ''all'' toxins.
** For bonus points, count how many times [[{{Invisibility}} Kagero Usui]] can be seen on the girls side, mostly unnoticed by even the viewers. At one point, there are several Kagero Usuis all over the fence.
%% commented out Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples * ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6vaJnRLg5U Another awkward Eri/Harima moment]].
* Played with in ''Manga/SgtFrog'', where one of Momoka's [[ZanyScheme poorly thought-out plans]] to get closer with Fuyuki involves letting him win a set of four tickets to an ''onsen'', and hoping he takes her as a guest. Most of the action involves Momoka fighting with Natsumi's [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship friend/admirer]] Koyuki over the extra ticket, to the point where they don't actually get to the hot springs until the very end of the episode.
** Another episode involved [[VillainProtagonist Keroro]] [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits and his platoon]] trying to drill their own hot spring so they can get rich off of it. Though, much like the rest of [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Keroro's schemes]], [[MurphysLaw things]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong go]] [[DidntThinkThisThrough south]] [[HilarityEnsues very quickly]].
* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' had the Hot Springs OVA. There was also a pool episode, but it probably doesn't count (although that one has high doses of fanservice).
* ''Anime/SkyGirls'' has one that also includes [[{{The Reveal}} important and disturbing plot information]]. In a subversion of the usual "guys try to peek on the girls" scenario, Otoha accidentally knocks down the partition between the two sides and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensues]].
* Subverted in ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'', since the expected (from the preview) hot springs episode ends having less than one minute of actual hot springs on-screen.
* ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}'': The last episode. Taking into consideration that it is more or less filler it is not surprising that fanservice should abound.
* Just about ''every'' episode in ''all'' the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' series have at least one scene in an onsen. The first TV series has [[MadScientist Washu]] build one into a PocketDimension attached to the bathroom - a woman opens the door, and enters an opulent onsen with steaming water fountains. A man opening the door just enters the normal bathroom. ''Ryoko'' builds the onsen in ''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki''. Lacking Washu's ubertech (or at least, lacking Washu's ability to invent new ubertech on a moment's notice), she just built a FloatingIsland behind the house and put the onsen there.
** The OVA had two episodes actually ''dedicated'' to the place: Episode 4, which served to introduce Mihoshi to the cast, and Episode 9, which served as not only a sequel to episode 4, but also dedicated itself to Sasami's backstory.
* The sixth episode of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' had the main characters directed to a hot spring by an old man. Kamina and Simon needed the concept explained to them, as both had grown up underground. [[spoiler:The spring turned out to be not only a trap set by the Beastmen, but ''[[ThatsNoMoon a Ganmen in disguise]]''. Also, there was a wardrobe malfunction. Followed by [[StuffBlowingUp an explosion]].]]
* ''Anime/ThisUglyYetBeautifulWorld'' had a hot springs scene where ALL of the series' female characters participated. Granted, nudity in ''This Ugly Yet Beautiful World'' is more plentiful than HoYay in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', but the hot springs scene shows almost full nudity for all the characters, including the one nude shot of the female preteen character. Then the very next episode was a BeachEpisode...
* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' has an episode where the girls take a trip to a hot spring. However, this one is fairly devoid of fanservice.
* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' manages to make use of this trope in one episode. Notable for it taking place in Alaska.
* ''Anime/TheWallflower'' had an episode set in a hot spring, which featured a murder mystery, Sunako generally creeping out everyone staying at their hotel, and a truly awe-inspiring [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOE04nchmv0 game of ping pong.]]
* ''Manga/TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' features an extra where the cast and crew of Chou Hayaoki TV have what amounts to basically a school field trip to an onsen.
* ''Manga/{{Working}}'': Subverted (or at least weirdly played). The hot spring episode does not feature any hot spring scene at all (or 1 if you count the foot spring).
* ''Anime/WorldConquestZvezdaPlot'' episode 9 features both the {{Villain Protagonist}}s and {{Hero Antagonist}}s taking a vacation to in the same hot springs in their civilian identities, resulting in some of them discovering each others' secret identities.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Judai/Jaden and allies visit the school's ''onsen'', and no intended fanservice is on.
* ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' had a hot springs segment in episode seven, which was mostly a beach episode.
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