Beppu’s Hells Tour and Yufuin’s Lake Kinrin: walking Oita, Japan’s onsen paradise

About Oita

Oita sits in eastern Kyushu with Oita City as its capital, the country’s top prefecture for both the number of hot-spring sources and total hot-spring output.

Main walking areas in Oita

Here are some of the prefecture’s most popular places to walk, where public smoking spots and facilities with smoking rooms tend to be available nearby.

• Beppu (Hells Tour, Kannawa hot-spring street)
• Yufuin (Yunotsubo Street, Lake Kinrin)
• Oita City (Funai Castle ruins, around Oita Marine Palace)

Oita trivia

The Beppu Hells Tour leads visitors through colourful hot-spring sources such as the Sea Hell and Blood Pond Hell.

Tips for finding smoking areas in Oita

• Use designated smoking spots in areas with no-smoking-on-the-street ordinances
• Stations, large commercial complexes and tourist information centres are good starting points
• Heated-tobacco-only rooms are growing — switch the tobacco-type filter to match your device
• Use a portable ashtray or the ashtray in the smoking area — good etiquette helps keep these spots open for everyone

Find efficiently with Mottosuitai

Allow location access on the Mottosuitai map to see smoking areas within 2 km of you. To browse by region, visit /search/?prefecture=oita for the Oita list.