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Things to do in Beppu & Yufuin 大分

137 places our team picked in Beppu & Yufuin, by category.

• Museum 3
• Art & Exhibits 2
• Shrine 4
• Castle & Palace 2
• Landmark & Tower 4
• Vista & View 3
• Photo Spot 10
• Camera Store 1
• Park 2
• Garden 1
• Nature & Hike 9
• Beach & Waterfront 2
• Theme Park 1
• Zoo & Aquarium 3
• Activities & Experiences 2
• Movie Theaters 1
• Unique Store 6
• Shopping Street 3
• Market 1
• Restaurant 7
• Ramen & Noodles 11
• Sushi & Seafood 7
• Café & Sweets 3
• Izakaya 2
• Bars & Nightlife 7
• Onsen & Sento 14
• Stay 8
• Transit Hub 7
• Luggage Storage 7
• Tourist Info 4

Top sights

• Hyotan OnsenOnsen & Sento · Kannawa — Kannawa's big, polished day-spa onsen since 1922, famous for its 100 percent free-flowing spring water, waterfall baths, steam rooms, sand…
• Umi Jigoku (Sea Hell)Landmark & Tower · Kannawa — The biggest and most beautiful of Beppu's Hells: a 98°C cobalt-blue pond steaming in a landscaped garden with giant Amazonian water…
• Tanayu Infinity Bath (Suginoi Hotel)Onsen & Sento · Kankaiji — Suginoi Hotel's five-tier terraced open-air bath on the hillside, where every level seems to spill straight into Beppu Bay. Open to day…
• Chinoike Jigoku (Blood Pond Hell)Landmark & Tower · Shibaseki / Noda — Japan's oldest recorded natural hell, a 78°C pond of blood-red hot mud described as the 'Red Spring' in an 8th-century gazetteer. Beppu's…
• Beppu Ropeway and Mt. Tsurumi SummitVista & View · Mt. Tsurumi — Ten-minute cable car to the 1,375 m summit of Mt. Tsurumi for a sweeping view over Beppu's steam plumes, the bay, Shikoku on clear days,…
• Beppu City Traditional Bamboo Crafts CenterMuseum · Higashisoen — Small museum devoted to Beppu bamboo craft, the only bamboo work designated a national Traditional Craft, with master pieces, history…
• Takegawara OnsenOnsen & Sento · Kitahama / Motomachi — Beppu's most famous public bathhouse, a 1938 wooden building with a temple-style gabled roof, where locals soak for ¥300 and visitors get…
• Oita Art MuseumMuseum · Oita City (Ueno) — Oita city's art museum in Uenogaoka Park, holding over 3,300 works including Important Cultural Property Bungo nanga paintings.
• Ekimae Koto OnsenOnsen & Sento · Beppu Station — 1924 half-timbered, Western-style bathhouse a minute from Beppu Station with a 'nuru-yu' (warm) and an 'atsu-yu' (hot) bath for about…
• Beppu TowerLandmark & Tower · Kitahama — 1957 steel tower by the bay, one of Tachu Naito's 'tower sisters' and a registered cultural property, repainted and restored in 2023 with…
• Usuki Samurai District (Nioza Historic Road)Photo Spot · Usuki — Stone-paved lanes of Usuki's old castle town, lined with temples and Edo-period residences, with no modern signage to spoil the view.
• Yama no Hotel Musouen (Day Bath)Onsen & Sento · Yufuin (Kawaminami) — Hillside Yufuin ryokan whose huge open-air baths, including the men's 'Gomuso no Yu', frame Mt. Yufu across the basin. Day visitors…