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Yunotsubo Avenue

 

Main street in Yufuin located at the foot of mount Yufu. The avenue is started near JR Yufuin

Station and connected to Kinrinko lake. Through Yunotsubo Avenue, it takes about 30 minutes

on foot from JR Yufuin Station to Kinrinko lake.

 


 

There are 70 shops, gift shop, galleries, curiosity item shops as well as cafes.

 


 

Along the Oita River, which is one street away, it is a recommended walking spot where

you can enjoy the seasonal scenery, and you can find a tranquil atmosphere of Yufuin.

 


 

General information  

Address Yunotsubo, Kawakami, Yufuin-cho, Yufu-city, Oita-prefecture
Access

10 minutes walk from JR Yufuin Station to the entrance of Yunotsubo Avenue


 

Kinrinko lake

 

Kinrinko lake is the landmark in Yufuin. Hot water gushes from the bottom of the lake, and

hot steam rises from its surface on a cold day. The lake is located at the end of the town’s

main walking routeabout a kilometer and a half from the Yufuin station.

 


 
Walking paths surround the lake as well as more small shops and cafesand there is a small
shrine located at the lake’s southern end
 

      Shitan-yu

       Floral Village

     Coffee restaurant


 

          Shopping Street

           Kamenoi Besso

       Rickshaw


 

General information  

Address 1561-1 Kawakami, Yufuin-cho, Yufu-city, Oita-prefecture
Access

5 minutes by a vehicle from JR Yufuin Station

20 minutes walk from JR Yufuin Station


 

 

Shitan-yu

 

Shitan-yu is the old public outdoor bath with a thatched roof beside Kinrinko lake. The bathing

here is mixed, as baths often were before the arrival, during the Meiji period (1869 – 1912),

of American and Europeans who shames the Japanese into segregating their baths.

 


 

Around Shitan-yu

 

      Kinrinko lake

     Coffee restaurant

     Floral Village


 

General information  

Address 1585 Kawakami, Yufuin-cho, Yufu-city, Oita-prefecture
Access

5 minutes by a vehicle from JR Yufuin Station

20 minutes walk from JR Yufuin Station

Open hours 10:00 to 21:00
Admission fee

JPY 200

Days closed No closing days

 

Yufuin Floral Village

 

Floral Village is the amusement facility that recreated the street of the Cotswolds region in

England, which was also used as the location for Harry Potter. Cute owls welcome you in

OWL’s FORESR.

 


 

You can enjoy strolling, gourmet and shopping with beautiful flowers in the Village, and there

is Alice in Wonderland shop here.

 


 

General information 

Address 1503-3 Kawakami, Yufuin-cho, Yufu-city, Oita-prefecture
Access

5 minutes by a vehicle from JR Yufuin Station

20 minutes walk from JR Yufuin Station 

Open hours

9:30 to 17:30 

Admission fee No fee is required
Days closed No regular closing days

 

Seiro-mushi, Yufuin Kagura

 

Seiro-mushi refers to a cooking technique in which food ingredients are put into a bamboo

basket used for steaming through water vapor from below

 


 

At Yufuin Kagura, Seiro-mushi is prepared with large bamboo baskets in front of diners.

Featured by the enriched flavor with warmth and fragrance of the cypress basket (seiro).

Live the lively, hot spring steam-like, “Jigoku steams” (literally hell’s steams) dishes right in

front of you with the traditional local taste of Beppu, Oita-prefecture.

 


 

General information  

Address Kawakami 1520-1, Yufuin-cho, Yufu-city, Oita-prefecture
Access

15 minutes walk from JR Yufuin Station