Chinoike-Jigoku exploring, in Beppu, Oita-prefecture

 

The site is located at Shibasaki district next to Tatsumaki-Jigoku.

The literal meaning of chinoike is blood-coloured pond.

The clay is steaming hot point that the steam is red. Japan’s oldest natural

Jigoku as written about in the Bungo Topography described as Akayusen, a reddish

hot spring.