Beppu Jigoku Meguri (Hells of Beppu)
Seven pools of boiling spring water, from cobalt blue at 98C to a 105C geyser.
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Beppu Jigoku Meguri (Hells of Beppu)
SaveSeven pools of boiling spring water, from cobalt blue at 98C to a 105C geyser.
The pools are too hot to touch, but four of the seven hells have a footbath.
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Kyushu with a 4-year-old: two nights by rental car, and the Hells of Beppu
All seven in two to three hours with a four-year-old, Umi first, Tatsumaki last, jigoku-mushi pudding at Okamotoya.
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Beppu with the family: local food, and a walk through the hells
A family of four: tonkotsu-shoyu ramen with free rice refills at Koikara Ryu, then ryukyu and toriten at Mayakashiya.
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A hot-spring town they will remember: two nights in summer Beppu with a six-month-old and a first-grader
August, no combined pass: they drove to four hells only, to match the children. The heat with a sling was the trial.
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How we run a long trip with three children
Three children, a week away: two sights a day, drives under three hours, two Beppu hells, laundry at coin laundries.
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- Fee：The combined ticket covers all seven hells: ¥2,400 for an adult, meaning high school age and up, and ¥1,200 for a child of primary or junior high school age (the table has applied since 1 February 2025). There is no individual price for a pre-school child in the table — the only line is a group rate of ¥500 for pre-schoolers. Groups of twenty or more pay ¥2,000 and ¥1,000. With a disability certificate it is ¥1,200 and ¥600. Parking is free at every hell, about 615 spaces across the seven. The four footbaths, at Umi, Chinoike, Kamado and Oniishibozu, are free once you are inside. The hot spring at the back of Oniishibozu Jigoku, Oniishi-no-Yu, is charged separately and is not part of the combined ticket: ¥620 for an adult, ¥300 for a primary school child and ¥200 for a pre-school child, and its five private family baths are ¥2,000 for the indoor bath or ¥3,300 with an open-air bath, for up to four people for an hour.■
- Hours：All seven hells keep the same hours, 8:00 to 17:00, every day of the year.■
- Booking：Every one of the seven hells has its own ticket window, and the combined ticket that covers all seven is sold at any of them — you buy it at whichever hell you reach first. It is valid for the day you buy it and the day after, and lets you into each hell once. Groups of twenty or more are handled only at Umi Jigoku or Chinoike Jigoku. School groups, kindergartens and nurseries, and disability-support facilities all need to book ahead; a disability-support facility applies by fax to the association office at least a week before.■Official booking site ↗
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- Official: Nursing space, Diaper changing table, Family restroom
- Official: Stroller access notes
- Official: Indoor / outdoor
- Official: main site
These are hot spring sources rather than baths, named hells because the ground here was once impossible to approach. Umi Jigoku is cobalt blue and 98C. Chinoike Jigoku is boiling red clay, its steam red too, recorded as Japan's oldest natural hell. Tatsumaki Jigoku is a geyser, and a red lamp at the entrance means an eruption is close. Shirai Jigoku raises large tropical fish on spring heat. Those four are designated national scenic sites. Umi, Chinoike, Kamado and Oniishibozu have footbaths.
| Indoor / outdoor | Outdoor | Entirely outdoors — you walk between open pools of boiling water and steam, 78C at Chinoike, 95C at Shirai, 98C at Umi and 105C of steam at Tatsumaki. There is no indoor route and no covered alternative. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | beppu-jigoku.com |
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| Nursing space | Yes (2) | Two of the seven hells have a nursing room: Umi Jigoku and Kamado Jigoku. The facilities table shows a dash for the other five — Oniishibozu, Oniyama, Shirai, Chinoike and Tatsumaki. Plan the day around those two. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | beppu-jigoku.com |
| Diaper changing table | Yes (1) | One changing sheet, inside the wheelchair-accessible toilet at Tatsumaki Jigoku — and Tatsumaki is the hell about 3km away from the walkable cluster. No changing sheet is listed at any of the other six. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | beppu-jigoku.com |
| Family restroom | Yes | All seven hells have a wheelchair-accessible toilet, and Umi Jigoku has two of them. The ones at Tatsumaki and Oniishibozu are described as barrier-free, so you can go straight in in a wheelchair. Wheelchairs are lent out too — three at Umi, two at Kamado, one at each of the other five — but they cannot be reserved. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | beppu-jigoku.com |
| Stroller access notesExtra info — guide only | Yes | The hells sit in two separate areas. The five around Umi Jigoku, in Kannawa, are close enough to walk between; Chinoike Jigoku and Tatsumaki Jigoku are about 3km away and want a car or a bus. Parking is free at each hell, about 615 spaces in total — 230 at Umi, 130 at Chinoike, 80 at Tatsumaki, 60 at Oniyama, 45 at Shirai, 35 each at Oniishibozu and Kamado. From JR Beppu station's west exit, Kamenoi bus 2, 5, 24 or 41 towards Kannawa takes 20 minutes to the Umi Jigoku-mae or Kannawa stop, then a minute on foot; a taxi is about 15 minutes and about ¥1,900. For the far pair, the nearest station is Kamegawa — bus 26 to Chinoike Jigoku-mae takes about 7 minutes for ¥140, a taxi about 7 minutes for ¥1,000, or 25 minutes on foot to Tatsumaki. Umi, Kamado and Tatsumaki each have an Oita Cycle Share port for electric-assist bikes. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | beppu-jigoku.com |
| Stroller friendly | Not checked yet | ||||
| Diaper disposal bin | Not checked yet | ||||
| Kids' toilet seat & step stool | Not checked yet | ||||
| Outside food allowed | Not checked yet | ||||
| English support | Not checked yet | ||||
| Elevator | Not checked yet |