別府海岸の沙湯
Sand Baths on the Beppu Shore
In Beppu, hot spring water wells up through the sandy beaches, and people have long enjoyed sunayu, sand baths where you are buried in warm sand. The word in the Japanese title is another way of writing sunayu. A bamboo-roofed bathhouse built on the beach in 1879 is said to be the origin of today's Takegawara Onsen.
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In Beppu, Oita Prefecture, hot spring water has long welled up through the sandy beaches, and people have enjoyed sunayu, sand baths in which you are buried in the warm sand. The word in the photo's Japanese title is simply another way of writing sunayu.
Along Beppu Bay, the beaches of Hamawaki, Beppu and Kamegawa had many natural sand baths, busy with visitors who came to take the waters. In 1879 (Meiji 12) a bathhouse roofed with bamboo was built on the beach, and this is said to be the origin of today's Takegawara Onsen.
Later the shore was filled in, partly to widen the national highway, and in 1986 the city opened the Beppu Kaihin Sunayu (Beppu Beach Sand Bath) at Shoningahama, where a natural shoreline remains. You can still try a sand bath there and at Takegawara Onsen.
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