Beppu Jigoku
First in Japan for both the number of sources and the volume of water. People once could not go near, and called them hells.
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First in Japan for both the number of sources and the volume of water. People once could not go near, and called them hells.
Begun as souvenirs for spa visitors and now producing Living National Treasures, built from eight basic weaves.
An art festival through the alleys and empty shops of a spa town, mixing work into the everyday of a tourist place.
A public bathhouse under a temple-like gable, still offering the sand bath in which bathers are buried to the neck.
Steam rises from all over the town - more springs and more water than anywhere in Japan, a city built on its own heat.
Pools of hot water divided into blue, red and white by their chemistry - geology showing its colours directly.
Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.
Over a hundred bathhouses in Beppu are run by neighbourhood associations - plain buildings whose form follows who manages them.
A hall in Beppu showing Beppu bamboo craft, a designated traditional craft, with sessions to try it.
Huts at Myoban Onsen in Beppu. Straw is laid over the steam vents and bath mineral crystals form on it.
A public bathhouse in front of Beppu Station, in a Western-style building of 1924.