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…
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 —…
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 (ๅๆนๅฑฑ) serves lunch and dinner the old way: a sunken charcoal hearth built right…
This is the first restaurant we’re writing up on Kyushu Wanderer, and it’s a good one to start with: ๅฑฑๆคใซใฌใผใใฉใ ่ใใ (Sansho Curry Udon Kikusuke), a small udon shop tucked into a quiet hillside neighborhood above Yufuin, away from the crowds on Yunotsubo-dลri. We visited on Nov 12, 2022, on a day of brilliant autumn…
I’d never been on a horse before I booked a beginner lesson at Crane Yufuin (ไน้ฆฌใฏใฉใ ใฏใฌใคใณๆนฏๅธ้ข), 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…