Nanyo Fishing Vacations

This onsen hotel is well maintained and have beautiful view of Beppu bay. We enjoyed our 2 nights stay here for sure. As of food, the daily buffet style breakfast was provided at nearby sister hotel and dinner at 2 different onsite restaurants (one in each hotel). This hotel doesn’t have public onsen but you can certainly use the one in sister hotel if you prefer public onsen over the private one in your room. Staff here are very friendly and helpful with anything. The only problem is the location, it’s less than 10 minutes train ride to Beppu station with local train but the train is only every 30 mins or so.

Very spacious, property is managed remotely. Facilities good with notes: 1) There are both indoor and outdoor onsen. For the uninitiated, Onsen are Japanese natural hot springs, the water comes up from the earth hotter than the tap water and is both clean and free! The pipe down to the earth spring source is quite long, and thus there will be a lot of cooled water and cold pipe between the source and the house. Therefore when turning the Onsen taps on (these are very obviously oversized taps with red handles) you may need to flush out more water than normal - perhaps running it at full blast (with the plug removed) for 15-20 minutes while you bring the hot water up to the surface and heat the pipework. Don’t feel ‘bad’ about doing this - remember, in Japan, the hot onsen water is the free one and it’s the ‘cold’ tap that costs money! 2) You can use a normal boiler-powered shower which is next to the onsen and this, and any silver colored basin taps will heat up this way which is much quicker though less ‘natural’. The shower room in the rear property is at the back accessed via the kitchen/lounge. 3) there is a pre registration process you can follow in English (from a link in a message sent in Japanese - just go to the link) 4) the process of getting keys is a little technical but remember both lock box codes - particularly the four digit one for the smaller box 5) area is full of obvious ‘soaplands’ - you may want to check what these are eg if planning a family trip

露天風呂は開放感があって良い。 しかし、22時までしか入れないから長く楽しめない。 室内に入ると臭い（温泉の匂いではない） エアコンの暖房が効かない 備え付けの食器、調理器具が衛生的とは思えない。 敷布団が薄いし変な分かれ方しているので寝にくい。 総合的に鑑み、料金が高いと感じた。 唯一良い点はアフリカンサファリと地獄めぐりが近い事。