Beppu Onsen—a city with an endless trail of onsen steam. The city takes pride in their empowering landscape, is blessed with the world’s largest source of onsen, and has over 2000 sources for its onsen, which is nearly 10 percent of all of Japan’s sources of onsen.
Not only represented by its numbers, Beppu is characterized by its vast variety of onsen. The “Beppu Hatto”, meaning the Beppu’s Eight Onsen is comprised of the Beppu, Kannawa, Kankaiji, Myouban, Kamegawa, Shibaseki, Horita and Hamawaki onsen. Each of these onsen areas has uniquely different spring quality.
Completed in 1902, the Takegawara Onsen represents the Beppu onsen area around Beppu Station. The Kannawa onsen area has been used as a medicinal public bath for many years and “Jigokumushi (Steamed) Cooking” can be enjoyed. The Myouban onsen area on the highlands, is famous for its Yu-no-Hana (hot spring incrustation). There are many more onsen in Beppu City and one visit is not enough to enjoy them all. An integral part to the daily lives of locals, there are over 100 public baths in the city, which cost only about 100 yen to use. The continuously flowing, fresh onsen is extremely hot and people who are not use to such temperatures may feel sick. Observe how the locals bathe as a reference to enjoy your bathing experience.

Beppu Navi English
http://english.beppu-navi.jp

RECOMMENDATION COMMENTS

Alex

Spain

First, it’s not only travelers can enjoy it, but also Beppu onsen is used as local people’s everyday bathing, so you can find a lot of small onsen spots in Beppu area and it cost only 100 yen at most places. So cheap! Second reason might not be useful information for everybody, but you can travel to Ehime (in Shikoku island) by ferry from Beppu port and it was very nice and unique experience for me.

APPEAL POINTS

Nature／Kyushu OLLE Beppu Course

Kyushu OLLE is a walking course with signs and ribbons for trekkers to have a safe and enjoyable nature experience. The view of Mount Tsurumi and Mount Yufu in the distance on the Beppu course is breathtaking. The course is approximately 11km long, starts

Sightseeing／Jigoku Meguri (Hell Tour)

The cobalt blue Umi Jigoku (Ocean Hell), Oniyama Jigoku (Ogre Hell) with 100 alligators, Chinoike Jigoku (Blood Lake Hell), where both the water and steam is red, are among the eight unique Jigoku (Hell) in the Kannawa-Kameyama area. There are many produc

Gourmet／Beppu Reimen (Cold Noodles)

Beppu Reimen (Cold Noodles) is entirely different from the reimen served at Chinese restaurants in Japan. The cold soup is a Japanese flavored broth, topped with sour kimchi, and the noodles are similar to Korean cold noodles, but slightly thicker and che