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Beppu Images 16 images Created 18 May 2009

Beppu is Japan's onsen capital with the largest volume of hot water in the world after Yellowstone. It has the largest number of hot spring sources in Japan. Beppu contains nine geothermal hot spots, which are referred to as the nine hells of Beppu. These take the form of multicolored volcanic pits of boiling water and mud and one geyser. The hells are too hot for bathing at source as they emerge at temperatures ranging from 50 to 99.5 C Among them are Umi Jigoku or Sea Hell; Oniishibozu Jigoku or Shaven Monk's Head Hell, Yama Jigoku or Mountain Hell, Kamado Jigoku or Boiling Hell, Oniyama Jigoku or Demon Mountain Hell, Shiraike Jigoku or White Pond Hell. Chinoike Jigoku or Blood Pond Hell, Tatsumaki Jigoku or Geyser Hell and finally Honbouzu Jigoku or monk's head hell.
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  • Sand Bath at Beppu - in addition to all the natural hot thermal water baths of Beppu are unusual sand baths and even mud baths.  The Beppu sand bath is conveniently located on Shoningahama Beach. A group of friends or family can enjoy being immersed in the hot sand bath together. A distinctly unique experience, having to have a bath after your sand bath to get rid of the sand.  Still, the experience will ease the muscles by sinking in the warm sand while gazing over the vast, blue ocean
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  • Monju Temple Boddhisatvas - Moss Covered Jizos - Jizo Boddhisatva images and statues are popular in Japan as Bodhisattva who console beings awaiting rebirth and travelers. As such they are often found along roadsides, paths or even street corners.
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  • Chinoike or "blood pond hell" features a pond of hot, red water. It is one of the most photogenic of the nine Beppu hells.
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  • Onsen Hoyo Land is famous for its unique open air mud baths, one of the only mud baths available for bathing in Japan. This mud bath is mixed with male and female bathers.
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  • Foot baths are all the rage in Japan, often in front of railway stations in hot spring towns to give tired travelers a rest from their arduous sightseeing schedules.
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  • Kurokawa Onsen Rotemburo - Considered one of the best onsen villages in Japan Kurokawa is everything a spa town should be without the usual accompanying kitsch or ugliness. It's well known so you certainly won't be alone, but this low key resort still seems like a tiny, forgotten village out in the countryside of Japan.
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  • Sashimi often is the first course in a formal Japanese meal, but can also be the main course, presented with rice and Miso soup in separate bowls. Many Japanese people believe that sashimi, traditionally considered the finest dish in Japanese cuisine, should be eaten before other strong flavors affect the palate. Culinarily, sashimi represents the Japanese cultural appreciation of subtlety.
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  • Shiraike Jigoku - as its name suggests, "white pond hell" features a pond of hot, milky white water.
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  • Torii Framing a Steaming Geyser at Beppu -  The basic structure of a torii is two columns that are topped with a horizontal rail. Slightly below the top rail is a second horizontal rail. Torii are traditionally made from wood and are usually painted vermilion red.
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  • Onsen Yukatas - Yukata is a Japanese summer robe. People wearing yukata are a common sight at fireworks displays, bon odori festivals and often worn after bathing at traditional Japanese inns. Though their use is not limited to after bath wear, yukata literally means "bath clothes".
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  • Japanese Straw Sandals - Zori are flat and thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw or other plant fibers.  Cloth, lacquered wood, leather, rubber and increasingly synthetic materials are used for the modern version of what we know as flip-flops.
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  • Out for a stroll in the streets of Kurokawa, onsen visitors regularly wear onsen yukata outside the onsen hotel before or after bathing.  Kurokawa Onsen is considered one of the most pleasant onsen towns in Kyushu for its lack of kitsch and sleaze found at other watering holes.
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  • Oniishibozu Hell Jigoku - This hell is named after the mud bubbles, which emerge from boiling mud pools and look like the shaven heads of monks.  This is one of the more striking and unique of all the "hells" of Beppu.
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  • Japanese woman being buried in sand bath at Beppu, one of the few places in Japan where sand is used for spa treatments. Beppu's sand bath is on Shoningahama Beach, and bathers will need to take a bath before roasting in sand, then another bath afterwards to get off the sand.
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  • Onsen Eggs -  Onsen eggs are cooked in hot springs. Since the eggs are slowly cooked in hot water of about 70-75 Celsius (158-167 Fahrenheit), the egg whites are soft and egg yolks are slightly hardened. Onsen tamago is sometimes  served as part of a  Japanese style breakfast in hot springs towns.  Otherwise, it is a snack for sale  on the streets of these towns.
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  • Kamado Jigoku or the  "cooking pot hell" features several boiling ponds and a fierce kitsch demon statue representing a devilish cook.
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