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Beppu
The most famous of Beppu's seven hells - a steaming cobalt-blue pond of 98C water, too hot to bathe in, only to marvel at.
Japan's oldest natural hell - a seething pond of blood-red mud coloured by iron oxide, steaming beside a wooded hillside in Shibaseki.
Beppu's only geyser hell, erupting boiling water every 30-40 minutes with such force it would shoot 30 metres skyward without its stone roof.
The most hands-on of the hells: six different bubbling pools, drinkable spring water, steam skin treatments and a photogenic red demon statue.
A serene milky-blue pond set in a classical Japanese garden, with a steam-heated tropical aquarium of piranhas and giant arapaima behind it.
A forested mountain on the coast where two large troops of over 1,000 wild Japanese macaques roam freely and come down to be fed each day.
A sulphur-scented hillside district famous for milky-white baths and thatched huts where bath-salt crystals have been farmed from steam for 300 years.
The oldest of Beppu's eight onsen quarters - a quiet, workaday neighbourhood of cheap public baths where the city's hot-spring story first began.
A coastal onsen quarter in northern Beppu, best known for its seaside sand bath where you are buried in naturally heated black sand.
A historic hillside onsen quarter beside a wooded river valley, home to two of the seven hells and a centuries-old healing bath.
The lively downtown core of Beppu around the station and Kitahama seafront - retro bathhouses, arcades, izakaya and the landmark Takegawara Onsen.
An upscale hillside onsen quarter above the city, prized for elegant ryokan and open-air baths with sweeping views over Beppu Bay.
A low-key onsen quarter on Beppu's western edge near the ropeway, offering quiet local baths away from the tourist crowds.
A 1375-metre peak above Beppu reached by Kyushu's largest ropeway, with sweeping views over the bay and beyond.
A striking 125-metre Arata Isozaki-designed tower with an open-air observation deck at 100 metres over the city, bay and mountains.
A 1957 retro observation tower by the designer of Tokyo Tower, with nostalgic neon and central city views.
The classic Beppu vista of onsen steam rising over the rooftops, one of Japan's protected landscapes.
A hillside plateau lookout with a sweeping panorama of Beppu Bay, celebrated as one of Japan's top night views.
Ponds of bubbling grey mud whose bursting bubbles resemble a shaven-headed monk - and the one hell with its own bathhouse where you can actually soak.
A steaming hell repurposed as Japan's first crocodile farm, where roughly 80 crocodiles bask in the warmth of the volcanic springs.
The atmospheric heart of Beppu's onsen culture - a hillside warren of steaming lanes, old bathhouses and steam-cooking kitchens.
Public steam-cooking hall in Kannawa where you cook your own meal over natural geothermal vents.
Hillside shop in Myoban famous for its steam-cooked jigoku mushi pudding, a Beppu icon.
Popular Beppu restaurant serving Oita's signature toriten, light tempura-style fried chicken.
