Visit Beppu, Japan

A very popular resort town with the Japanese, Beppu is famed for its mud baths, black sand and hot springs all of which provide the 12 million visitors each year with traditional ways to relax.

There are more than 3,000 hot springs around Beppu feeding around 170 public bathhouses.

Any visit to this town inevitably centres around this and it offers perhaps the best opportunity to meet vacationing Japanese in their own surroundings. Beppu is surrounded on one side by the sea and on the other by steep hills and mountains offering visitors a stunning setting.