{"id":219,"date":"2004-11-20T18:32:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2004-11-20T18:32:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T18:32:35","slug":"nine_tourist_traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/nine_tourist_traps\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Tourist Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beppu is known for a few things.  For example:<br \/>\nThe undue enthusiasm of the JR lady who announces the destinations of trains.<br \/>\n&#8220;Beppuuuuuuuuuuu!  Beppuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!&#8221;<br \/>\nActually, I thought it was cute, but that&#8217;s just me.<br \/>\nBeing the onsen capital of Japan, there&#8217;s a LOT of onsen here, along with the smell of sulphur all over.  The sulphur comes through along with the mineral hot spring water.<br \/>\nAnd the &#8220;Jigoku Meguri&#8221; or the &#8220;9 Hells&#8221;.  It a group of hot springs for looking at because they&#8217;re so hot.  Since it would be boring to cough up yen to see bubbling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/mud.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/mud.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">mud<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/steam.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/steam.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">steam<\/a> at each one, each of these places have an added attraction to spice things up.<br \/>\nOne had a sad looking zoo, another had an aquarium and another had a lot of crocodiles.<br \/>\nYup, crocodiles.<br \/>\nStill another had a greenhouse, one had an aquarium, and one had nothing at all but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/geyser.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/geyser.html','popup','width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">geyser<\/a>.<br \/>\nSome had some nice gardens and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/waterfalls.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/waterfalls.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">waterfalls<\/a> with the whole &#8220;nature&#8221; theme.  And then there were some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/demon.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/demon.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">demons<\/a> and dragons around too.  Some of the hells were beautiful too.  This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/red.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/red.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">red<\/a>.  Nice shade of blue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/seahell.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/seahell.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">here<\/a>.  And they all had a place to soak your feet (except the geyser place) and useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/usefuladvice.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/movabletype\/archives\/usefuladvice.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">advice<\/a>.<br \/>\nShockingly, I don&#8217;t have a whole lot to say about it all, except it took 6 hours to tour it all.  It&#8217;s neat to see, but you only have to do it once.<br \/>\nIf your friends want to check this out and you&#8217;ve already experienced hell, send them along on the tour while you chill at the onsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beppu is known for a few things. For example: The undue enthusiasm of the JR lady who announces the destinations of trains. &#8220;Beppuuuuuuuuuuu! Beppuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!&#8221; Actually, I thought it was cute, but that&#8217;s just me. Being the onsen capital of Japan, there&#8217;s a LOT of onsen here, along with the smell of sulphur all over. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/nine_tourist_traps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nine Tourist Traps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-11-hkg-nrt-and-pek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-3x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}