{"id":9760,"date":"2019-10-12T04:38:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2022-10-10T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:20:15","slug":"japan-day-39-beppu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9760","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 39: Beppu"},"content":{"rendered":"

So today is a typhoon day and I\u2019ve been fairly lucky to have missed the big ones in my travels this year. I\u2019ve been away from the edge of two really bad typhoons. Fukuoka was just windy (very windy) and there were some cancelled trains on the Kagoshima line. I heard the wind blew something across the tracks and delayed a bunch of trains.<\/p>\n

Almost the same breakfast as yesterday, at Pronto.<\/p>\n

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I got to the station early to get my last reserved seats on my railpass. I used two three-week rail passes and now it\u2019s pay-as-I go. There was a long line, of course, but I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s because of people rescheduling their canceled trips. I think Hakata is always a shitshow in general. Like I said before, Fukuoka is much larger than I expected.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s my train. It went up to Kokura, and then went backwards to Oita. Or maybe it was going backwards to Kokura. I dunno. Either way, it was late!<\/p>\n

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I got to Beppu late, of course, and dropped off my bags at my hotel. It\u2019s so-so. I went to the tourist bureau and of course they told me to check out the hells. The tourist bureau had a weird feel. It\u2019s small, but you know it had a lot of people coming through it. It seemed to lack polish for a place that\u2019s traditionally known to be a tourist spot<\/p>\n

I went to the hells and honestly Jigokudani in Noboribetsu was a lot more interesting and natural. There’s only so many variants on geothermal springs so some of them got gimmicky.<\/p>\n

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This next one had a bunch of hot springs and they showed you how smoke would interact with the superheated water and create steam.<\/p>\n

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And this is all I had for lunch. The pepper flakes just made me cough and didn\u2019t really add to the flavor of the ice cream.<\/p>\n

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I think this next hell was so boring that they took the hot water and made a crocodile farm.<\/p>\n

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There was a huge guy next to this one and I was lucky enough to see feeding time. Those guys can jump and the big guy was 20+ feet I bet.<\/p>\n

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The next hot spring had tropical fish.<\/p>\n

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I guess this is what piranhas look like.<\/p>\n

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I went to the trouble of taking a bus to the last two hot springs. This is \u201cblood lake\u201d. It\u2019s much less impressive in person.<\/p>\n

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And as long as I was there I waited 45 minutes for the geyser to go off.<\/p>\n

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I got back to town and checked into my hotel but I decided to find some eyeglass cleaner for my brand new eyeglasses. The instructions say use the proper cleaning cloth and make sure you wet them first with the proper blah blah blah. I know I\u2019ll do that for the first couple of months at the most.<\/p>\n

Then I went looking for dinner. The hotel suggested two izakaya and two teishoku places and I went to a teishoku place. And overate because I hardly ate anything today.<\/p>\n

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That beer in the background is the only one I had.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I\u2019m winging it because I don\u2019t know if the ferry is running. Plan A is to take a ferry across to Yahatahama, and get a train to Matsuyama. It\u2019s always an adventure on the Shikoku ferries. Lots of web sites in Japanese and I can hardly figure out what they\u2019re talking about. I\u2019ve had good luck so far so wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So today is a typhoon day and I\u2019ve been fairly lucky to have missed the big ones in my travels this year. I\u2019ve been away from the edge of two really bad typhoons. Fukuoka was just windy (very windy) and there were some cancelled trains on the Kagoshima line. I heard the wind blew something across the tracks and delayed a bunch of trains. Almost the same breakfast as yesterday, at Pronto. I got to the station early to get my last reserved seats on my railpass. I used two three-week rail passes and now it\u2019s pay-as-I go. There was a long line, of course, but I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s … Continue reading Japan Day 39: Beppu<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10240,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/10240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}