14th and 15th October 2020
Having enjoyed the morning exploring Nagasaki we drove to the city of Fukuoka.
Fukuoka, is located at the top of Kyushu Island. We didn’t know anything about it apart from the fact that the Irish Rugby Team was located there.
We had watched the Ireland v Samoa match last night in a Japanese Italian restaurant. Today, we needed to find a place to watch the Scotland v Japan game.
As soon as we found a hotel and parked the car- in the most amazing automatic car park- we set out to find the Fan Zone.
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| Car Park, Japan |
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| Car in lift, Japan |
The Fan Zone was located at the train station; and it was packed out. We were unable to get in as due to its popularity arm bands were given out to people who wanted to get in and they had all gone. One of the volunteers gave us a map of pubs showing the games, and we tried a few of them, but again they were packed to the rafters. At the Hyatt we thought we were lucky as the TV area was very quiet, but that was because the Irish team had reserved it to watch the match.
Finally, we ended up watching the game in an ‘all you can eat’ pizza and pasta place in the Canal City shopping center.
The next morning we had time to walk to and around Ohori Park before we set off to Beppu.
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| Fukuoka, Japan |
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| Fukuoka, Japan |
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| Fukuoka, Japan |
As this was the day we should have arrived in Kyshu, we were now back to our original holiday plan and I had booked to stay at a new hotel, The Rex.
The Rex Hotel was located on the sea front in Beppu. The rooms were the largest we experienced in Japan. The room had two large beds, contained a Tatami Mat area, had spectacular sea views, and a segregated Onsen on the top floor. The hotel also provided judo style Pyjamas, socks and slippers. I was a lovely hotel and I would stay here again.
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| Rex Hotel, Beppu, Japan |
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| Roof Top Onsen at the Rex Hotel, Beppu, Japan |
Beppu is a popular Japanese tourist center, with over 12 million tourists visiting the resort each year. The main attractions are the hot springs and it contains at least 168 public baths.
But the biggest attraction is the Boiling Hells.
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| Beppu, Rugby Ready |
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| Beppu, Japan |
There are 7 Hells in Beppu, they are really touristy, but good fun and we visited them all.
You get a book of tickets at whatever Hell is the first one you go to. It is recommended that you start at Umi Jigku Hell, so that’s what we did.
You can walk to the first 4 Hells, the last two need a quick drive or bus to get to.
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| Umi Jigoku, Beppu |
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| Umi Jigoku, Beppu |
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| Footbaths in Umi Jigoku, Beppu |
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| Umi Jigoku, Beppu |
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| Boiling Hells in Beppu, Japan |
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| Boiling Hells in Beppu, Japan |
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| Boiling Hells in Beppu, Japan |
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| Boiling Hells in Beppu, Japan |
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| Boiling Hells in Beppu, Japan |
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| Boiling Hells in Beppu, Japan |
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| Straw Huts at Myoban, Beppu |
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| do you want a snack? Beppu, Japan |
You can also visit the famous Beppu Sand Baths, this was located just along from our hotel.
When we had finished at the Hells and the straw huts at Myoban Jigoku we walked to the sand baths, but they were really busy and could not fit us in so we just made use of the footbath instead.
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| Beppu Sand Baths |
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| last footbath of the day at the Sand Baths Beppu |
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