Beppu & Yufuin · Relax & Stay

Best Onsen & Sento in Beppu & Yufuin

14 places, each checked by our team.

• Beppu Onsen Hoyoland (Mud Bath) 別府温泉保養ランドMyoban — Ramshackle, wonderfully old-school mud-bath complex in the hills of Myoban, where you sink into silky grey hot-spring mud in a mixed outdoor pool.…
• Ebisuya Onsen (Yuya Ebisu) 湯屋えびす（えびすの湯）Myoban — Day-use bathhouse in the Myoban hot spring district with milky sulphur water, open-air pools and private family baths.
• Ekimae Koto Onsen 駅前高等温泉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 ¥250, plus…
• Hyotan Onsen ひょうたん温泉Kannawa — Kannawa's big, polished day-spa onsen since 1922, famous for its 100 percent free-flowing spring water, waterfall baths, steam rooms, sand bath and…
• Kannawa Mushiyu (Steam Bath) 鉄輪むし湯Kannawa — Medieval-style herbal steam bath founded, legend says, by the monk Ippen in 1276: you lie on a bed of sekisho herbs in a hot stone chamber for eight…
• Lamune Onsen (Nagayu Onsen) ラムネ温泉Nagayu (Taketa) — Architect-designed bathhouse in Nagayu Onsen known for its strongly carbonated outdoor spring that coats bathers in tiny bubbles.
• Myoban Yunosato (Yunohana Huts) みょうばん湯の里Myoban — Thatched yunohana huts where Myoban's famous bath-salt crystals are still grown by an Edo-period technique, plus a big milky-blue outdoor bath with…
• Oita Airport Foot Bath 大分空港 足湯Oita Airport (Kunisaki) — Free hot spring foot bath just outside arrivals at Oita Airport, fed with real Beppu onsen water and decked out in a space-station theme for the…
• Shibaseki Onsen 柴石温泉Shibaseki / Noda — Quiet city-run onsen in a green valley beside the Blood Pond Hell, with indoor and outdoor baths, a steam bath and a plunge pool, for ¥300. One of…
• SHONIN PARK Sand SPA (Beppu Kaihin Sunayu) SHONIN PARK Sand SPA（別府海浜砂湯）Shoningahama — Seaside hot sand bath on Shoningahama beach: lie in a yukata under a sunshade while staff shovel naturally heated sand over you to the sound of the…
• Takegawara Onsen 竹瓦温泉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 buried in…
• Tanayu Infinity Bath (Suginoi Hotel) 杉乃井ホテル 棚湯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 visitors and…
• Yama no Hotel Musouen (Day Bath) 山のホテル夢想園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 welcome late…
• Yufuin Sansuikan (Day Bath) ゆふいん山水館 日帰り温泉Yufuin Station — Large ryokan near Yufuin Station whose two bath floors, with outdoor pools facing Mt. Yufu and the basin, open to day visitors.