Tag: Yufuin


  • Tsukahara Onsen: Bathing on the Slopes of an Active Volcano Near Yufuin

    This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most hot springs in this part of Oita ask you to imagine the volcano underneath them. Tsukahara Onsen just shows it to you. The bathhouse sits…

  • Yufugawa Ravine: A Hidden Gorge Near Yufuin You Can Actually Walk Into

    This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most visitors driving between Yufuin and Beppu never learn this gorge exists. There’s no big roadside sign pointing to it, no tour bus parking lot —…

  • Yomoyama: Hearth-Grilled Dining by Kinrinko Lake

    This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Down a side passage off Yunotsubo Yokocho, Yufuin’s main shopping street, Yomoyama (ๅ››ๆ–นๅฑฑ) serves lunch and dinner the old way: a sunken charcoal hearth built right…

  • Kikusuke: Hidden Sansho Curry Udon Above Yufuin

    This is the first restaurant we’re writing up on Kyushu Wanderer, and it’s a good one to start with: ๅฑฑๆค’ใ‚ซใƒฌใƒผใ†ใฉใ‚“ ่Šใ™ใ‘ (Sansho Curry Udon Kikusuke), a small udon shop tucked into a quiet hillside neighborhood above Yufuin, away from the crowds on Yunotsubo-dลri. We visited on Nov 12, 2022, on a day of brilliant autumn…

  • Crane Yufuin: A First Horseback Lesson Under Mt. Yufu

    I’d never been on a horse before I booked a beginner lesson at Crane Yufuin (ไน—้ฆฌใ‚ฏใƒฉใƒ– ใ‚ฏใƒฌใ‚คใƒณๆนฏๅธƒ้™ข), a riding club tucked into the hills above Yufuin on Nov 12, 2022, with Mt. Yufu rising right behind the arena. This is a one-on-one beginner course โ€” no group lessons, no assumed experience โ€” and that’s exactly…