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Hyotan Onsen

Kannawa · Japan

Hot-spring bathing and steam-cooked jigoku-mushi food

What you’ll find

What Hyotan Onsen is known for

Hyotan Onsen in Beppu's steam-wreathed Kannawa district fills every pool with free-flowing natural hot-spring water and adds sand and steam baths heated by geothermal vapor. Its kitchen serves jigoku-mushi, foods cooked directly in that hot-spring steam, alongside Oita dishes such as kabosu udon.