- Bathing temperature
- 50°C
- Bathing
- Indoor
Kannawa Mushi-yu is a mushi-yu — a steam bath rather than a soaking bath — traced to the priest Ippen in the thirteenth century. Bathers lie in a low stone chamber on a bed of sekishobu sweet flag, steamed by geothermal vapour rising directly from the ground beneath Beppu's Kannawa district.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Kannawa geothermal steam
- Mineralisation
- Geothermal steam (sulphur)
- Character
- Ground steam rather than bathing water; the chamber is floored with sekishobu sweet flag.
Practical information
In Kannawa, reached by bus from Beppu station; sessions last about ten minutes, cotton bathing garments are hired at the counter, and a small outdoor bath adjoins for rinsing.
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