Thursday, March 5, 2009

Cities Of The World Starting With P

secret corners of local

Standing in the dormitory 駅 前 高等 温泉 Ekimae Koto Onsen, the weather is always gray, damp, almost wet. I'm going to continue my hitchhike south to 高速 道路 from the highway, do not forget to go to finish my extensive tour of onsen in Beppu 别 府 on the road by the secret へ びん 湯 Hebin-yu. These are my favorite onsen, outdoors, the 野 天 风 吕 rotenburo secrets that do not appear in magazines with tourists (Group) or on TV because they are not served by buses to tourists (Group) and way to go does not inspire the same confidence that most Japanese roads. Having heard of the onsen by word-of-mouth and then found a website rotten (pledge of listed "secret") , I was somewhat taken aback when the tourist Beppu Station provided me with the accurate map, and even in English!

Beppu Tourism Online: へ びん 湯 Hebin-yu, hidden in the mountain onsen



There are actually 3 onsen secrets へ びん 湯Hebin-yu, 鍋山 の 湯 Nabeyama-no-yu and 鶴 の 湯 Tsuru-no-yu.

I leave my dorm and take the 7:55 bus to the north, 明矾 Myoban


help of my precious secrets map onsen


From the bus stop nearest you, there's still a good walk under my umbrella in the Electric Mist to join this little paradise.

Who said remote location made it very often looks rubbish illegally. And the panel to remember that it is forbidden
(The camera behind frightens those who want to park is also prohibited)


Phew, I 'm on the right path


The road turned into a gravel path and continues to climb. I am overwhelmed by a fast black car, which actually stops and lowers his window. It Koji, who will also take a morning bath, and that gives me a lift spontaneously very useful, because the road was still very long and steep. We park at 20 meters from へ びん 湯 Hebin-yu front of a hut occupied by an old man who made a fire. It's actually a beautiful cabin with 4 beds free service if I had known I could have stayed there that night.

A second cabin, smaller what are the changing rooms (for women who would put in swimsuits, I guess) at the foot of the torrent burning


The onsen is aligned with 4 baths, built in the palm of source. Naturally, the further upstream is the hottest, and one is warm (Japanese "dirty" because it reuses the bath water upstream). There is also a 5th warm bath on the independent side. The setting is beautiful, the fumes from the baths seem to blend into the mist that is not yet completely closed. And both of us to frolic naked in nature and hopping bath bath.

へ びん 湯 Hebin-yu


Video tour へ びん 湯 Hebin-yu



It is almost perfect place to store alongside the rotenburo of Hida-Takayama and Hokkaido.
But since we left Koji suggests I go to another free bath, another location of the premises. It 鹤 寿 泉 Kakujusen .

鹤 寿 泉 Kakujusen


bike I was passed two days earlier without reading the panel and I had zapped. This is a free onsen, with one bathroom and a special atmosphere. The small interior is filled with steam and water is opaque, but clear. That may be because she is absolutely hot nor Koji nor I can go home. Only the local old man with the wrinkled skin peeled bones can swim. But after some adjustments to pipe blows, the temperature bearable, at least for a few tens of seconds slower.

The bath death


It's time for me to stretch my thumb to go south. But Koji does not let go and insists on going to eat at him. In fact he holds a 民宿 minshuku (inn) in the center of Beppu 别 府 tourism. There are probably his mother in the kitchen where I can not go, and I never see in a situation that takes all of the Bates Motel. But no blood, he returned with yakisoba and a plastic bottle of shochu 焼 酎, probably the price per liter of the cheapest countries that ends quickly. So, while Koji drunk and still excited to have me visit places free.

It begins with an instrument of torture, 蒸し 湯 mushiyu. It is a steam chamber that traps legs.

蒸し 湯 mushiyu


the lid was raised, brought her legs in, filling the holes with his napkin, and it only remains to burn.


Once cooked through my legs, walk towards the second checkpoint: the plates that burn beneath their feet. It a small hut with a nice bright grandpa (and his beer, obviously) and grandmas inside, but between the benches, there is a large slab hot.

足 岩 盘 浴 Ashi-ganbanyoku


Then, just 50 meters from his minshuku, we will be back in another bath room.

The bath neighbor


Proof quality mineral


Opposite from Koji


On rentre alors au minshuku faire une pause, avec le seul client : un étudiant de Chiba. Koji en profite pour remplir nos réservoirs de shochu, le sien compris, et comme si de rien n'était, prend le volant pour nous conduire sur une colline au centre de Beppu, une colline qui n'accueille qu'une sorte de temple, assez étrange et voyant. Un truc pseudo-religieux louche et riche, c'est généralement le signe de la 創価学会 Soka Gakkai . J'ai un peu parlé des sectes japonaises pendant le Gifu Vélo Trip , mais la Soka Gakkai semble être à un niveau supérieur au simple bon filon business au vu des polémiques politiques. D'ailleurs, its internationalization would make it the third richest in France.

The statue of the monument up there on the hill


Koji knows nothing and leaves me a "no", but after deciphering the kanji, I concur, c ' Soka Gakkai is well. But anyway, whether the cult, there * UZA or Sailor Moon, who runs the country, they came to see the view. Which also is not great, so you start to 十 文字 very top of Beppu.

view of Beppu 别 府 (and Oita 大分)



Koji, still drunk, we are throwing a tip in turns to return to the city, happy to be alive, we'll relax in an onsen (what has made all the day).

By the way, we stop at the corner of tourists, the booth where cheese is still a place of discovery
(and still lacks the salami cheese)


しばせき 温泉 onsen Shibaseki, 210 yen, the only expense of the day. And who is widely


is finally going to minshuku or Koji offers me to stay in one room. You can feast on 半 额 the supermarket and another plastic bottle of shochu, just like for us to complete this long day ...

My room the next morning


The next day, c is a good start. Koji woke with onigiri, we made a last visit to the bath room and he drove me to the highway rest area. Here we go again ... (more here )


This adventure is an episode of Yakushima hitchhiking trip

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