- Bathing
- Indoor
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.
Balnevia view
Why visit
The sand bath is a genuinely local ritual, unchanged for over a century and still costing the price of a coffee.
The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Takegawara spring
- Mineralisation
- Sodium chloride and hydrogen carbonate
- Character
- Hot, lightly saline water; the sand baths are heated by the same source.
Facilities
- Thermal pools
- Indoor pools
History
Built in 1879 during the Meiji period, the bathhouse takes its name from its original bamboo-tiled roof.
Practical information
Bring a small towel or rent one; the sand bath issues a yukata and often has a short queue.
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Getting there
A ten-minute walk from Beppu Station through the old Nagarekawa quarter.
Location
Recommendations
Beppu hot sand bath
Takegawara sand bath entry
Buried in geothermally heated sand, yukata included.
Beppu Hells tour
The seven jigoku springs
Half-day tour of Beppu's coloured hot spring pools.
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Private onsen baths
Traditional inns near the old bathhouse quarter.
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