Beppu Hells (Umi Jigoku)
別府地獄めぐり（海地獄）
Cobalt-blue and blood-red hot pools steaming away
- Hours
- 8am–5pm, open every day
- Tickets
- Joint ticket for seven: adults ¥2,400, children ¥1,200. Umi Jigoku alone: adults ¥500, children ¥250
- Address
- 559-1 Kannawa, Beppu, Oita (Umi Jigoku)
The Beppu Hells are seven hot pools where boiling water and steam erupt from the ground, toured as 'hells'. The headline act, Umi Jigoku, is 98°C water of an unreal sea-blue, glimpsed through drifting white steam. A short ride away, Chinoike Jigoku is a pool of blood-red mud, and at Tatsumaki Jigoku a geyser shoots up at regular intervals. Around Kannawa, steam leaks from drains and rooftops on every lane, as if the whole town were a steamer basket. Don't skip the onsen-steamed eggs and pudding at Umi Jigoku's shop, or the free footbath.