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Beppu Blood hell onsen, one of the springs in Jigoku meguri (Hell Tour)
Bruce: This is a Japanese tourist attraction. On Saturday afternoon lines of cars extend for a mile outside the parking lot as the mobile young await in shiny cars, American style, the tourist experience. | |||
| Dinner and Breakfast at Onsen | Jigoku Meguri "Hell Tour" | Hotspring heated botanical | |
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Japan is known for hot springs but Beppu Onsen is known to be no. 1 onsen in Japan in terms of its number of originating springs and quantity of hot water. I've wanted to go there for a while. We stayed at a ryokan near the station.
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There is supposed to be eight areas to enjoy onsen baths but since we were short of time, we had to contend with 'Jigoku meguri' (Hell tour), where we could see different kinds of hot water in a short time. There were 'umijigoku' (sea hell) where the water appears blue because of iron sulphate, and red (blood hell) for its oxidized iron, white for some kind of salt, also bubbly mud onsen and others where they would use the warm water to grow tropical plants, raise aligators and tropical fish. There was also one with geyser in which it sprouted out in regular intervals. They were all within short distance and we could walk or take a but to get there.
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_23nov25-bw_1155a.jpg The steam was supposed to be good for your throat.  |
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_23nov25-aqu_1547.jpg The 'Tatsumaki jigoku' (tornado hell) sprouted about every half hour.  |
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In Beppu, they would try to capture the steam from the ground to harvest what has crystalized called 'Yunohana' since Edo period. Stone pipes lead the steam in the thached cottage with clay floors. After a few days the crystalized residue would be collected from the floor. It was put in baths used for medicinal purposes.
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