Hot springs were wildly used for sightseeing, ablution, health caring and other recreational activities in ancient China. On the basis of systematic survey of the related historical hot spring data, this paper analyses the composing elements, forms and characteristics of ancient hot spring tourism landscapes. The conclusions are as follows: The landscapes of ancient hot spring can be classified into two types including single scenery and composite scenery. The single scenery was small scale hot spring landscape unit, which was composed of spri...