Beppu

The Japanese have loved hot springs very much for generations. The hot spring is loved as means to restore the health of both mind and body for a long time. Beppu is rich with the hot spring and is famous among most Japanese.

It is the hot spring that is the greatest pleasure of Beppu. There are various kinds of hot springs such as outdoor bath, the mud, the sand and the steaming in Beppu. You can challenge by experiencing a Japanese life of bathing in the local hot spring used by its citizen. You can also enjoy seeing the hot spring. Many people enjoy "Hell Tour" which is visiting around a red and blue colorful hot spring called "Hell". If you are an adventurer, how about "the unexplored hot

spring"? While taking a walk in the beautiful mountain the path will take you to "unexplored hot spring" for you to enjoy yourself out in nature.

In an area around Beppu Station, hot springs and the life of people are combined. The narrow alleys are crowded with houses and there are hot springs for inhabitants here and there. Rather than historic area it has a feeling of a town full of life and is bustling with people. Here, you feel what it is like to live as a normal Japanese. Many accommodations and the restaurants welcome foreigners and the transportation is convenient.

Kannawa area is famous for "Hell Tour" and is the typical hot spring street where hot water steam

goes up from everywhere. "The hell steaming cooking" is famous, which you cook vegetable and fish with emitting steam of the hot spring. In "the hell steaming studio" in Ideyu-zaka you can enjoy cooking food which you buy yourself. There are also accommodations recommended for foreigners and will allow great experience in this land of hot springs.

Besides this website, "Foreign Tourist Information Office" in Beppu Station is convenient to know sightseeing information of Beppu. Volunteers will offer kind and easy to understand information services.
The more you know, the more you want to visit..Beppu. Please come and enjoy yourself!