Day 6 Beppu

Beppu is one of the most famous Onsen resort in Japan. The popular hot spring town nestle

at the foot of volcanos, Mount Yufu and Mount Tsurumi. Boasting more than 2,800 hot spring

sources and flowing rate of nearly 137,000 kiloliters per day, Beppu is considered a paradise

of hot springs famous for high therapeutic effects.

Itinerary

Leave Hotel in Yufuin

Transfer to Beppu by JR train

Exploring Beppu by the use of local bus

lunch : Jigoku Mushi kobo

Stay at Beppu

Where to explore

lunch

Jigoku Mushi kobo

Jigoku Mushi, literally “hell-steaming” is a unique cooking method found in Beppu. The ingredients

such as vegetables, seafood and meals are cooked using the steam from natural hot spring.

You can operate the steam cookers all by yourself and you can cook whatever you want.

Hell (Jigoku Meguri ) tour that is a collection of hot spring where the water bubbles forth from

underground, often with unusual result. Seven of the hells are located in the Kannawa district

where over 4 km northwest of Beppu station, and two in the more remote Shibaseki district.

Sea Hell, it resemble of sea, this 200 metre deep, cobalt blue pond of boiling water emerge

1200 years ago after a volcano explosion.

Oniishi shaving Head Hell, large and small bubble of hot gray mud that boiling up here look

like the shaven head of monks.

Blood Pull Hell, 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.

Have you tried Foot bath before? oot bath is called Ashiyu in Japanese and is a public bath in

which people can bath their feet. Ashiyu in Beppu set up at Kannawa Onsen near the Hell tour spot.