Leah says: Beppu.... strange name absolutely wonderful place! We spent 3 nights here and stayed in a lovely hostel called Spa Hostel Khaosan Beppu. Our room was a Japanese stye with tatami mats and a natural hot spring water shower. The hostel also had an onsite Onsen (a Japanese public bath that is really popular and very relaxing). Basically B...

Came to Beppu yesterday took us about seven hours on 2 bullet trains and 1 sonic express which was actually really slow and swayed rather too much for my liking. Beppu is the city full of natural hot springs and we used one of the onsens today. men and women are in seperate bathing areas and the water is boiling hot, 42c or something. i ended up...

This morning we took a rickety 3-hour long train ride to Beppu, Japan's most popular hot springs resort city. We definately enjoyed the thermal baths fueled by the volcanoes of the Pacific Rim in Beppu. Also off the American tourist paths, we hardly saw anyone here that was not Japanese. Everyone was so nice - a lady on the street saw us and gav...