- Baño
- Interior
Takegawara is the emblem of Beppu: a wooden bathhouse from 1879, rebuilt in 1938, offering a plain hot bath and a room where attendants bury bathers in geothermally heated black sand.
Mirada Balnevia
Por qué visitarlo
The sand bath is a genuinely local ritual, unchanged for over a century and still costing the price of a coffee.
Recomendaciones
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El agua
Agua termal
- Manantial
- Takegawara spring
- Mineralización
- Sodium chloride and hydrogen carbonate
- Carácter
- Hot, lightly saline water; the sand baths are heated by the same source.
Instalaciones
- Thermal pools
- Indoor pools
Historia
Built in 1879 during the Meiji period, the bathhouse takes its name from its original bamboo-tiled roof.
Información práctica
Bring a small towel or rent one; the sand bath issues a yukata and often has a short queue.
Cómo llegar
A ten-minute walk from Beppu Station through the old Nagarekawa quarter.
Ubicación
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