Beppu is known as the “spa city”, and that it has more than 110 public establishments. Account with more than 130,000 kiloliters of thermal water per year from the interior of the Earth (enough to fill 3,600 pools of 25 m in length), mostly from 9 sources known as “the 9 Hells of Beppu”. Since antiquity this has been the reason for which many people attended Beppu to benefit from the baths taken with this type of water.
In 1950 she was appointed by the Japanese Government as a spa town. Its waters are rich in sulphides, salt, acids and aluminium. Their main centres are: Beppu, Kankaiji, Kannawa, Myoban, and hour. Each year attracts more than 3.5 million visitors to take advantage of the medicinal qualities and therapeutic of water, with such distinctive names such as: “hell tromba” or “blood Lake”. The city is located in a Bay surrounded by bamboo forests and mountains which comes from the water of strange colors: blood-red (underwater oxidation), verduzco, caramel color. Read the rest of this entry »
