Japan. by Japanese.Japan, judged by a Japanese
A steaming cobalt-blue hot spring pond ringed by rocks, a small red torii and carp streamers on the slope behindBubbling grey mud forming concentric rings between pale rocksHouses running down a hillside to a bay, a cone-shaped mountain across the water under a clear skyLight trails on a coastal road at dusk, with town lights along a bay below the mountains

Beppu, Oita

Beppu: What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

Beppu's sights centre on Kannawa, about 20 minutes by bus from JR Beppu Station: five of the seven hells (one common ticket, adults ¥2,400, valid two days), steam cooking at Jigoku Mushi Kobo and the Kannawa Mushiyu steam bath. Takegawara Onsen and its sand bath are about 10 minutes on foot from the station, and Myoban, the Beppu Ropeway and Takasakiyama are each a bus ride away.

The pages below split the town the way a trip does: what to do, and which of four bases to sleep in: Beppu Station and Kitahama, Kannawa, the Kankaiji hillside or Myoban.

Beppu: things to do, where to stay