Beppu Ryokan

Our ferry arrived in Beppu around 10.30am and we headed straight to the ryokan. The ryokan was absolutely stunning, our room was huge and our balcony looked out over Beppu and the sea on one side and the mountains on the other. There were 4 private onsen, ...

... ; Except that email is blocked.  For security purposes.  Even my Sarcastic Voice was speechless. One of the ladies at the Ryokan where I was staying let me use her PC while her kids watched Detective Conan on the tv.  This was really above ...

... quite lovely in it's own right. At this point, N. had to go off, and I wanted to see one of the main attractions of Beppu, the 'hells' which are hotsprings that are too hot for human use.  There are about 20 in the city of all colours and types ...

... .  Fortunately it came along 20 minutes later, and was carried to a station where I waited again and then was took a train to Beppu proper, which took another hour.  By this point the trip had taken from about 8 am until 4pm, and I was beginning ...

... and I've occasionally managed to persuade Jim of their merits too. We'd booked ourselves into a really nice traditional Japanese style inn or Ryokan which had an onsen (Japanese hot spring) of its own so after we checked in we made our way to the private ...

Unsurprisingly, the post office is closed, so I'll be continuing to carry the postcards I’ve written for yet another day. Getting the card and the stamp together is surprisingly challenging for me.  This is not just a Japan thing. Today ...

... onsens as it is attached to our traditional Japanese inn. We reference a local bus stop map and a local bus driver to learn that the Ryokan (japans inn) is right in front of our noses. Hessen and I look at each other in dismay as it looks much too nice to ...

Our Ryokan in Beppu has an onsen.  Not a surprise since Beppu is known for its hot springs, and it is a common vacation spot for Japanese tourists.  On Sunday, we took a bus to the Kannawa area to check out the hells (jigoku) which are spots ...

... meiner Unterkunft führte mitten ins Rotlichtviertel - vielfach gab es 30 Minuten (was?)  für 15.000Yen. Das gebuchte Ryokan hatte damit zum Glück nichts zu schaffen und besaß gleich drei Privatonsen neben zwei Geschlechtsspezifischen Bädern. ...

... from Tokyo wouldn't be all that unusual, but he lived not ten minutes away from where I live now! The hostel is in a former ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) and as such, has its own onsen.  We decided to save that for later, though, since we wanted ...