Nioh 3: Hot Spring Locations & Interactive Tracking Guide

Before a hard boss fight, the smartest thing a Nioh 3 player can do is find a Hot Spring. The buff carries into the arena — and unlike praying at a Shrine, soaking in a Hot Spring does not reset the enemies you've already cleared.

With 26 Hot Springs to find across all six maps, every bath counts toward the Spa Lover Silver trophy. All 26 are recorded with exact access routes on the Nioh 3 interactive maps, including the Nurikabe walls and fake walls that guard the hardest-to-reach ones.

What Does a Hot Spring Do?

When you step into a Hot Spring, your character sits down and soaks for about three seconds. Afterward, you receive two benefits: full HP restoration and a timed combat buff that lasts 10 minutes of real playtime — the timer pauses when the game is paused, or you're in menus.

The combat buff is Warrior's Waters, granting +6% melee damage and stacking with Kodama Blessings, food bonuses, and equipment effects.

That free damage boost can shift difficult encounters — especially if you locate the nearest spring and soak before entering a boss arena.

Two Trophies: Spa Healer and Spa Lover

• Spa Healer (Bronze) unlocks on your very first Hot Spring bath.
• Spa Lover (Silver) requires all 26.

Nothing is missable — all areas remain explorable after the story, and all missions are replayable through the Battle Scroll at Shrines.

Hot Springs you have already visited appear with a blue water icon on the region map, making it straightforward to see which sub-regions still have unvisited springs.

Yokai Teardrops: The First-Visit Bonus

Every Hot Spring awards 2 Yokai Teardrops on your first visit. That's 52 Yokai Teardrops across all 26 springs, a meaningful contribution to the Craft Guide economy since each guide costs 2 Teardrops at a Sudama Merchant.

Prioritising Hot Springs early in each region accelerates your access to crafting blueprints.

Three Types of Hidden Springs

Most Hot Springs require clearing a pocket of nearby Yokai before you can use them. Beyond that, they're hidden in three common ways.

Several sit behind Nurikabe walls — the Iinoya spring (Ryotan Temple Nurikabe), the Hachijo spring, and the Kyoto Imperial Palace spring all require destroying a Nurikabe to enter.

One is hidden behind a fake wall — the Futamata spring is concealed in Futamata Castle's upper courtyard.

Several more are in caves and tunnels only reachable by specific routes marked on our maps, including the Haunting Caves spring in Maisaka and the stalactite-cave Sagano spring accessible from a side tunnel past a flooded cave.

The Most Commonly Missed Hot Spring

Hot Spring #26 is found exclusively during Main Mission: A Sinister End — replayable via the Battle Scroll menu and the easiest Hot Spring to overlook.

At the 6th Shrine, 'Edo Castle: Keep Watchtower', just before the Death Veil fight, cut through the privacy screens to the right of the shrine, then use the Spirit Veins to reach the lower area beneath the shrine where the Hot Spring is hidden.

If you're missing one spring and have completed every other area, this is almost certainly the one.

All 26 Hot Spring Locations by Era

• Warring States (10 Hot Springs): Tokaido (Desecrated Hot Spring Myth — first spring in the game), Maisaka Post, Maisaka Haunting Caves, Lake Hamana, Futamata Road, Futamata Castle, Iinoya (Nurikabe), Mikatagahara x2 (open world + Crucible path).
• Heian (9 Hot Springs): Mount Kurama, Funaokayama, Rokuhara, Hachijo x2 (one Nurikabe, one Putrid Paradise Myth), Sagano x2 (cave + stalactite tunnel), Nishiichi, Palace Grounds Crucible.
• Antiquity (1 Hot Spring): Spirit Tree stairs, bottom of the Antiquity map.
• Bakumatsu (5 Hot Springs): Shimabara, Sanjo Crucible, Nijo Castle, Kiyomizu x2, Shirakawa, Kyoto Imperial Palace (Nurikabe).
• Final Battle of Edo (1 Hot Spring): hidden behind privacy screens below the Keep Watchtower Shrine — see most commonly missed section above.

All 26 Hot Springs are fully documented on the Warring States area map, Heian interactive map, Antiquity map guide, Bakumatsu area map, and Final Battle of Edo interactive map, with access routes and Nurikabe/fake wall flags.