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RubyFG
Manila, Philippines12 contributions
Jan 2020 • Family
There are a total of 7 onsens to visit, each one has its own unique features. 5 onsens are located near each other, within walking distance. Take the bus to go to the other two. They have a one day bus pass for your unlimited rides, and get the packaged entrance tickets to make it more economical.
Written 4 February 2020
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Icykoko
Nonthaburi Province, Thailand60 contributions
Sept 2014 • Couples
The good attraction in Beppu town.
This hot spring has 2 ponds. Brick color and Light blue color.
If you have limited time and not want to see all of 8 hells tour. This hot spring is recommend.
This hot spring has 2 ponds. Brick color and Light blue color.
If you have limited time and not want to see all of 8 hells tour. This hot spring is recommend.
Written 9 December 2014
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Pom0128
Vancouver37 contributions
Mar 2016 • Couples
My boyfriend and I went to Tanayu Onsen in the Suginoi Palace. Suginoi Hotel has three buildings and the onsen is in the Palace building. They offer a free shuttle from Beppu Station to the hotel every 15 minutes. Look for a purple mini van in a parking lot on the right hand side of the west gate exit if you are facing away from the station. This shuttle can also take you back to the station (last shuttle at 10pm). After you pay (1500yen or 1400yen with coupon from tourist centre), you have to lock your shoes up in a locker and wear slippers. Then you go to the change room to get a locker for you things. From there, you can decide if you want to go to the Sky Garden(bathing suit allowed) or stay for the traditional onsen that is accessible from the change room. This onsen was great for us because my boyfriend was in total cultural shock and didn't like bathing the Japanese way- hot spring in his birthday suit. I also loved the aromatic steam room. There is also a sauna and a steam room for mud spa where you can purchase mud from them and rub it on yourself to steam and shower off after. You can also bring your own salt to exfoliate or buy there. There's also a light show starting at 7pm in the Sky Garden. After the light show, I left my boyfriend in the public pool and went to the traditional onsen. It was soooo great!! I thoroughly enjoyed the hot onsen, the various pools and the beautiful city view.
When I go back to Beppu next time, I will do the 8 onsen hop. You can get a booklet that has the planned route for the onsen hop from the tourist centre at the station and some coupons for the major attractions in Beppu (eg. 100 yen off the ropeway and 100 yen off Tanayu).
When I go back to Beppu next time, I will do the 8 onsen hop. You can get a booklet that has the planned route for the onsen hop from the tourist centre at the station and some coupons for the major attractions in Beppu (eg. 100 yen off the ropeway and 100 yen off Tanayu).
Written 26 March 2016
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Lottie D
UK5 contributions
Feb 2014 • Friends
The onsen were very interesting and made some great pictures. However, their charm was completely overshadowed by the disgust I felt on seeing the animals in the small, run-down zoo in Yama Jigoku and Oni Jigoku. All the animals were on their own, with very little space to move around, and no enrichment whatsoever. The animals seemed to be in OK physical condition but they were obviously all suffering from complete lack of interaction and comfort. There was a Japanese monkey, living completely by itself in a concrete cage. It was obviously distressed, as it was rocking backwards and forwards, as if it was going mad from isolation. Monkeys are very sociable creatures; they thrive on social interaction, and to keep this monkey permanently on its own is horridly cruel. There was also a hippopotamus, again, completely on its own in a very small enclosure. The African elephant’s enclosure was also completely inadequate; living by itself in a tiny concrete block, with no soft resting space. This is a snowy area in winter but none of the mammals had warm or soft areas to rest, their enclosures were made of concrete and nothing else. Oni Jigoku was almost as shocking, with hundreds of crocodiles either lying on top of each other or in their own concrete enclosure. According to reviews I have read online, the zookeeper routinely hoses the crocodiles with water in order to get them to fight with each other. The other tourists visiting that day seemed only mildly interested in the zoo. I left the Jigoku feeling depressed and worried for the animals.
I've written a letter to the owners of the attraction and have filed a report with the Born Free Foundation.
I've written a letter to the owners of the attraction and have filed a report with the Born Free Foundation.
Written 20 February 2014
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A T
Chicago, IL5 contributions
May 2015 • Solo
I made a mistake, and it was called Beppu. I came to Beppu after two nights in Kurokawa Onsen, which was a quaint and charming town with well-kept onsens and a friendly atmosphere. Contrast Beppu, which is run down, depressing, and, at least when I was there, strangely empty. Whoever is writing that Beppu is a leading Japanese hot springs resort clearly has not been there in the last 20 years. Everything feels like it's from the early 1990s and hasn't been cleaned since then. Japanese tourists appear to know this, because they weren't there.
Bottom line: skip Beppu. Go somewhere more rural and less depressing.
Bottom line: skip Beppu. Go somewhere more rural and less depressing.
Written 28 May 2015
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spiceg01
Perth, Australia42 contributions
Jan 2012 • Family
I am an onsen freak. I love them. My idea of a good holiday is going to Japan and visiting my favourite or a new bath everyday. I was rather excited about visiting Beppu. We'd stayed in Kurokawa Onsen the night before as our splurge for the holiday and then went onto Beppu with anticipation. We drove through Yufuin but decided it was too block building resorty for our tastes. Yufuin is salubrious compared to Beppu.
We went to all the hells which didn't keep animals as the first and only one we went to with animals (fish in tanks way too small without plants, rocks/sand or other fish, nothing just concrete and a glass wall) treated them very poorly and I couldn't bear the idea of going into the others with large animals like my local zoo keeps in 100x better conditions.
The organisation responsible for these hot springs really isn't developing them into anything fun. I am saying this as an onsen freak. They have built a stone box around the geyser. The point of a geyser is to be big and splashy. I like kitch too but really the could make more of these hot springs. There's some information at some (in Japanese and English but text when available was in both) and sometimes somewhere to sit but it was pretty dull.
I was also put off by the cheery old lady demonstrating the cold water dressed lady, hot water naked lady towels during the obligatory walk through the gift shop at the cooking pot hell. They all have gift shops, pretty much with the same stuff.
The rest of Beppu is very worn down, dirty and dull. It's the Karratha of Japan, only a lot less interesting. I was glad in the end we only stayed one day before taking the Ferry to Yawatahama and then onto Matsuyama by train. Go to Kurokawa Onsen or Mt Aso or Matsuyama (not Yawatahama it's also a hole) but skip Beppu.
We went to all the hells which didn't keep animals as the first and only one we went to with animals (fish in tanks way too small without plants, rocks/sand or other fish, nothing just concrete and a glass wall) treated them very poorly and I couldn't bear the idea of going into the others with large animals like my local zoo keeps in 100x better conditions.
The organisation responsible for these hot springs really isn't developing them into anything fun. I am saying this as an onsen freak. They have built a stone box around the geyser. The point of a geyser is to be big and splashy. I like kitch too but really the could make more of these hot springs. There's some information at some (in Japanese and English but text when available was in both) and sometimes somewhere to sit but it was pretty dull.
I was also put off by the cheery old lady demonstrating the cold water dressed lady, hot water naked lady towels during the obligatory walk through the gift shop at the cooking pot hell. They all have gift shops, pretty much with the same stuff.
The rest of Beppu is very worn down, dirty and dull. It's the Karratha of Japan, only a lot less interesting. I was glad in the end we only stayed one day before taking the Ferry to Yawatahama and then onto Matsuyama by train. Go to Kurokawa Onsen or Mt Aso or Matsuyama (not Yawatahama it's also a hole) but skip Beppu.
Written 15 June 2012
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Orangutangi
Wigan6 contributions
Jul 2013
I don't usually write reviews but thought it was necessary to add a positive English review - it would be a huge shame for visitors to Kyushu to miss out on this onsen resort. There are about 100 onsens in total so you'd be hard pressed to not find some ones for you. There are the incredible hotel onsen spas like at suginoi hotel - with amazing facilities and views, some great little rustic tub baths to share with wizened locals and some lovely natural baths in outdoor settings - including a steaming mixed mud bath.
The jigoku hells tour is interesting for an hour or two - but you can easily pass a couple of days exploring the onsens - and if you're desperate for more, continuing onto Aso and Kurokawa for some really rural baths.
The jigoku hells tour is interesting for an hour or two - but you can easily pass a couple of days exploring the onsens - and if you're desperate for more, continuing onto Aso and Kurokawa for some really rural baths.
Written 10 July 2013
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marsha_tn
malaysia557 contributions
May 2017 • Friends
In beppu should visit the most popular jigoku meguri which consist 8 "hells". The entrance fee is 2000yen for 8 hells. The 6 hells are nearby, the blood pond and tornardo hells quite far from the 6hells, we walked for an hour to reach these 2 hells. Its worth to visit beppu's hells.
Written 1 September 2017
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Digger H
Burnham-on-Crouch, UK13 contributions
Oct 2019 • Solo
An interesting experience.
Everybody wanders around starkers, showers and cleans themselves throughly for 10 or 15 minutes before jumping in the Onsen which is incredibly hot.
Very cheap and very interesting.
Everybody wanders around starkers, showers and cleans themselves throughly for 10 or 15 minutes before jumping in the Onsen which is incredibly hot.
Very cheap and very interesting.
Written 11 October 2019
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MyYellowLuggage
Brussels, Belgium105 contributions
Apr 2019
The Beppu Onsen are situated around 45minutes from Oita, in Beppu area. You can buy access to the Jigoku (7 hot springs called 'Hells') and bus trip in the Beppu station (reachable in 10 minutes by train from Oita Station).
they will give you a map and all the necessary information, in addition to the Jigoku acess and train pass.
It might seem a bit complicated as English is not very common among local people but with a small effort, you can easily reach the 'Hells' and experience a mesmerizing time!
There are 7 'Jigoku' that are close the one to the other, you have to leave one jikogu to acess the next one by foot, just follow the signs.
It is really worth the trip if you happen to be visiting Kyushu island!
they will give you a map and all the necessary information, in addition to the Jigoku acess and train pass.
It might seem a bit complicated as English is not very common among local people but with a small effort, you can easily reach the 'Hells' and experience a mesmerizing time!
There are 7 'Jigoku' that are close the one to the other, you have to leave one jikogu to acess the next one by foot, just follow the signs.
It is really worth the trip if you happen to be visiting Kyushu island!
Written 26 April 2019
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