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IreneMcKay Says: Beppu has two lovely beaches. It was October when we visited and although it was hot no-one was swimming when we were there. Both beaches had park areas with seats. They were lovely areas for a walk and for a picnic. The first beach's park had some interesting statues too....
IreneMcKay Says: This hell is near Blood Pond Hell. It consists of a seating area where people wait to see a geyser that spouts into the air around every 20 minutes. The name Tatsumaki Jigoku means Waterspout Hell. The geyser spouts for around 5 minutes or so enabling everyone to take a...
IreneMcKay Says: From Kannawa Bus Station we took bus number 16 to Chinoike Jigoku the Blood Pond Hell. There were great views over Beppu as we left Kannawa on the bus. Chinoike Jigoku cost 400 yen to enter. It has a large gift shop selling spa products and souvenirs at the entrance. Blood...
IreneMcKay Says: On our second visit to Beppu we spent a few hours returning to Kannawa and the hells. This time we visited Shiraike Jigoku or White Pond Hell. Entry was 400 yen. White Pond Hell has a large milky blue pond with lots of steam. It is quite photogenic. There are small gardens...
IreneMcKay Says: We took a bus from Beppu Station to Kannawa. Exit the station through the mountainside exit and take bus 2,7,5,41,43 and 9. It cost 320 yen. When you enter the bus, take a ticket from the machine. This is your entry stop number. You need to look at the display board at the...
IreneMcKay Says: This spa is located at the end of one of Beppu's beaches. You must take off your shoes at the entrance and place them in a locker costing 100yen. Then pay 500 yen for the spa. Women go off to the left, men to the right. You can place your clothes in a locker in the changing...
IreneMcKay Says: We decided to visit Beppu Tower. You buy your ticket from a machine on the ground floor. Admission is 200 yen. You then take the lift to floor 16 and hand your ticket to the woman there. There are great views from the tower over the harbour, beach and Beppu town. There are...
IreneMcKay Says: Wandering around the streets of Kannawa was fun. You will see food being cooked by steam. There is a shrine on the hill which overlooks the crocodile hell from here you can see steam rising over the rooftops of Kannawa.
aukahkay Says: The Beppu Ropeway on the Mt Tsurumi in the Aso-Kuju National Park, was completed in 1962 by the technology of Kinki Nippon Railway. It was the only ropeway in the world to link a vertical distance of 792 meters. The 101-person gondola takes about ten minutes to reach the...
aukahkay Says: The White Pond Hell is so called because the colourless water that naturally spouts from the ground mysteriously turns creamy white. The serene atmosphere of the traditional Japanese garden is sure to soothe the mind.
aukahkay Says: The Umi Jigoku is so called because it resembles the sea. This 200m deep cobalt-blue pond of boiling water emerged 1200 years ago after a volcanic eruption. You can boil eggs in the pool and eat them.
Jigoku Meguri - Burning Hells Tour
mightywease Says: In 1927 Kumahachi Aburaya, an entrepreneur and the ‘father’ of Beppu tourism – honoured with a memorial festival in the town during November - established a bus tour of the ‘hells’- complete with tour guides - and since then a circuit of at least some of the hells has been a...
1 Review and 28 Opinions Stayed with my wife in March 2005. Rooms are all bright and airy. Some of the staff speak English...
1 Review and 7 Opinions Seawave Hotel Beppu is located conveniently right in front of JR Beppu Station. It is a business...
Hit Parade Club: Fantastic Oldies Rock and Roll
Simon1944 Says: Japanese retro rock at its very best. Hit Parade Band has great singers, wonderful harmonies and rockin' sax and guitar. Recreations almost as good as the originals. Don 't miss the Hit Parade Club.All you can eat and drink - wonderful value for money. Lots of different...
jorgblaser Says: you have the choice. there is soo many clubs that some are even empty and the waitresses are reading the newspaper...that is what happened to us.But just ask people in street...they would advice you where to go.
IreneMcKay Says: When you arrive at Beppu Train Station, you can exit on the mountainside and you are right next to the bus stop to the hells. Each journey to the hells will cost around 320 to 340 yen. You take a ticket when you board the bus. This tells you the stop number you started at....
tigerjapan Says: The Kamenoi mini free bus pass can be purchased for 900 yen (700 for students) from the tourist information centres. It allows you to travel on all blue buses for free in the day it is stamped for. If you want to see all the 8 major jigoku, then this bus pass makes travel to...
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We were very surprised when we saw our first fruit shop in Beppu. For a number of reasons too:
1. It was winter so we were only expecting things like apples, oranges, pears & suchlike colder weather fruits;
2. So, lots of tropical type fruits;
3. Really big pieces of fruit, on average much bigger than we get at home; and
4. The prices were astronomical! (the master of understatement strikes again LOL!)
What to buy: Well, if I could have afforded to I probably would have bought a mango or two, a rockmelon (cantaloupe) and a paw paw (papaya).
However, when we looked at the mangos & did a quick currency conversion we figured out it wasn't really worth buying a mango for between 35 & 40 $Australian when we could buy something not quite as big, but I'm sure equally delicious for about $2 - 3.
So, if you find yourself in Beppu during the winter as we did and a piece of lovely looking tropical fruit takes your fancy, you'd better be well cashed (or credit carded) up!
What to pay: As mentioned above - PRICEY!
Updated Mar 16, 2004
Address: various locations
Don't hang with your head above a hole in the ground to see what's in there, because 'what's in there might jump out'. Any second there can be a burst of boiling hot water go up in your face. (-; Most geysers have timetables near them so you can wait until the next fountain.
Written Oct 15, 2002
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Of course again the spa in Beppu. There is one just under the railway station and another one two roads under. You can even let you burry under warm sand. That is nice.
i think for 1000 yen or so.
(further details concerning spas are in kyoto page)
Written Mar 24, 2003
Pavlik_NL Says: Take the 'Jigoku-tour' or 'Hell's tour', that the Beppu-touristorganisation organised and which will bring you along all famous hot-springs of the town and their strange variety of colours. From blood-red to poisonous green. Blubbering grey mudponds and high jumping geysers....
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Beppu is rated in the travel guides as being 'touristy', glitzy, gauche etc' and in some ways that's true, but all the same I'm glad we visited. We only stayed a couple of nights as part of the first...
We bought a 3 day northern Kyushu pass and did a daytrip from Fukuoka to Beppu. We could have got there direct in about 2 hours by taking the train from Fukuoka towards Miyazaki Airport, but we...
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