Ureshino Onsen prospered as a post town on the Nagasaki Kaido Street in the Edo Period. For its scale and prosperity, people referred to it as “Western Beppu” to compare the city to Beppu, another famous hot spring town in the east of Kyushu.
There are more than 30 inns along Ureshino River, most of which have their hot springs open to non-staying visitors. There are also many public hot springs. “Siebold No Yu” also opened in 2010 as a public hot spring facility to reproduce the original facility designed by a German engineer in 1924. Here you can enjoy the atmosphere of a nostalgic western building.
The hot spring quality is sodium hydrogen carbonate. The sticky sodium bicarbonate spring emulsifies and washed away sebum and secretions and your skin feels very smooth after bathing. Ureshino Onsen is counted as one of the “best three skin-beautifying springs in Japan” along with Hinokami Onsen of Shimane and Kitsuregawa Onsen of Tochigi.
Customers of any of the inns in the area will be given a hot spring coupon. With this coupon, you can enjoy any hot springs in the other inns for only 200 Yen. Ureshino Onsen has long been loved as a hot spring town. This is the best place to enjoy skin-beautifying hot springs while feeling the historical atmosphere.

Ureshino Onsen Tourism Association
http://kankou.spa-u.net/lang/en/

RECOMMENDATION COMMENTS

River Lee

Taiwan

Japan’s countryside is very charming, and it captivates my heart. Ureshino onsen, which is said to have a history dating back to about 200AD, is a truly quiet onsen tourist spot. Considering its long history, it is wonderful how many buildings and sceneries are preserved. Soaking in the bath makes the skin so silky! I sincerely think it is a great place.

APPEAL POINTS

Gourmet／Onsen Boiled Tofu

Onsen Boiled Tofu is a must-try item of Ureshino. Tofu slowly boiled in Onsen water turns milky pale yellow and will have a very soft texture. The texture and flavor is very addictive. Green tea and black tea of Ureshino are also recommended!

Nature／Kyushu Olle Ureshino Course

Kyushu Olle is a walking course where you can enjoy walking slowly while getting close to the nature, history, and people’s lives in the area along the course. Ureshino course is 12.5 Kilometers long in total and takes 4 to 5 hours to finish. Starting from Hizen Yoshida Yakikamamoto Kaikan, tour participants can enjoy various attractive sceneries with a shrine, tea farm, woods and fall. To finish up the tour, you can relieve the fatigue with a foot bath set up at the goal point.

Service／Ureshino Lunch & Café Map

In Ureshino, sightseeing map is available in English, Chinese (simplified & traditional), and Korean, offering information on restaurants, their recommended menus and other tourist attractions. You can get it at the tourist information office. All the restaurants featured on the map have multi-lingual menus so foreign tourists don’t need to be worried about language problems.