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TOP BEPPU
5 SPAS

Tanayu
Outdoor pools offer
great city views at this
vast complex (www.
suginoi-hotel.com).
Takegawara
Famed for its black-
sand baths.

Beppu Beach
Sand Bath
Enjoy a sand bath with
a view of Beppu Bay
The main shopping street in the spa town
of Yufuin, surrounded by mountains (9 Shoningahamacho).
Myoban Hot Spring
A quiet onsen option.
who shamed the Japanese resort, constitutes an amazing
into segregating their baths. thermal and entertainment Onsen Hoyo Land
roller coaster. Both mud and steam
Sueda Art Museum The city’s porous skin is baths are available
" ⌂ 1834 Kawakami punctured by a number of here (0977 66-2221).
§ (0977) 85-3572 vents from which steam contin-
# 9am–5pm daily uous ly rises.Scalding water sur-
faces at the 3,750 hot springs
Trick 3D Art and 168 public baths, and is Bathhouse is one of Beppu’s
Yufuin Museum also piped into private homes oldest public baths, in which
" ⌂ 3001-8 Yufuincho, to heat rooms and fuel ovens. visitors are buried in black
Kawakami # 9:30am– Beppu offers interest ing sand before plunging into
5pm daily variations on the theme of a adjacent hot pools. Up in
hot bath. Visitors can soak the hills north of Kannawa,
in a series of tubs of graded Myoban Hot Spring is a
6 temperatures, plunge into quieter place to which
Japanese people have been
thermal whirlpools, be buried
Beppu in hot black sand, or sit up to coming for well over a thou-
別府 the neck in steaming mud. sand years for curative baths.
The most famous sights are For an overview of Beppu,
! B6 ⌂ Oita Prefecture the Boiling Hells (Jigoku) – climb the 410-ft (125-m)
k Oita £ g From Tokyo,
Osaka, Kobe, and Hiroshima pools of mineral-colored water Global Tower, between the
n Beppu Stn; www.city. and bubbling mud. Six of them station and Suginoi Palace.
are within walking distance of
beppu.oita.jp
each other in the Kannawa Boiling Hells
If you can accept its brazen district in the north of Beppu. " ⌂ 559-1 Kannawa
commercialism, Beppu, a Each has a different function, § (0977) 66-1577
glitzy, neon-strung hot-spring color, and mineral property. # 8am–5pm daily
For example, the waters of
Ocean Hell (Umi Jigoku) are Suginoi Palace
INSIDER TIP the color of a tropical sea, " ⌂ Kankaiji 1 § (0977)
Be Footloose while Blood Pond Hell (Chi- 24-1141 # Daily
Dotted around Beppu no-Ike Jigoku) takes its color
are ashiyu – onsen from dissolved red clay. Takegawara Bathhouse
for your feet. Usually Many baths are attach ed to " ⌂ 16-23 Motomachi
found in public places, hotels but also open to the § (0977) 23-1585 # 8am–
these small hot water public. The hugely pop ular 10:30pm daily
pools are the perfect Suginoi Palace, a hotel on the
place to rest weary western fringes of town, is an Myoban Hot Spring
feet and are often irresistible hot-spring fantasy. " ⌂ Myoban # 8:30am–
free of charge. Built in 1879 just inland from 5:30pm daily ∑ jigoku-
Beppu Bay, Takegawara prin.com
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