BEPPU, Oita Prefecture--People who bathe in a hot spring daily are less prone to developing depression, researchers found. A team from Kyushu University Beppu Hospital in Oita Prefecture speculated ...

BEPPU, Oita Prefecture--In ancient times, a local record describes the water vapor and hot water gushing out of the ground in today's Beppu area as "hell." But residents who have lived here have ...

With more than 2,300 source springs discharging 80,000 liters of water every minute, the city of Beppu in Ōita Prefecture accounts for more than 8% of all the hot springs in Japan. One sight of the ...

The Oita Prefecture city of Beppu, well known as an onsen (hot springs) resort, turns 100 this year. While a century is an admirable milestone, in the case of Beppu, one has to do a double take. After ...

Soak in the three-Michelin-starred baths of Hyotan Onsen. Learn more about the craft of traditional bamboo weaving by taking a class at the Bamboo Cultural Center. Take a thermal sand bath while ...

Japan is full of hot spring getaways, with the historic Beppu Onsen town in Oita prefecture being one of the country's most renowned onsen destinations. And it's about to get more popular as Hoshino ...

Soak in the three-Michelin-starred baths of Hyotan Onsen. Learn more about the craft of traditional bamboo weaving by taking a class at the Bamboo Cultural Center. Take a thermal sand bath while ...

BEPPU, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Beppu City’s tourism economy was hit with an unprecedented shock as COVID-19 began to spread in April of this year. Never in our history have we seen visitors drop to ...

Have you ever been at a wedding or music festival and thought to yourself, “What this party really needs is a large-scale public bath with natural mineral water?” That quite possibly is the logic ...

BEPPU, Oita -- Beppu Mayor Yasuhiro Nagano said on March 28 that his city will take advantage of its rich hot springs resources to launch an "onsen" amusement park featuring a hot spring ...

Omochi, the mascot cat at Aratama Ryokan inn in the Beppu Onsen hot spring resort in Oita Prefecture, is seen in a photo provided by the facility. He was voted No. 1 in the "2024 nationwide ranking of ...

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