Beppu means a city in the middle of Oita Prefecture, Japan, and it is the second largest city in Oita Prefecture.

Beppu is a city located in the middle of Oita Prefecture, Japan, and the second largest city in Oita Prefecture. Adjacent cities are Oita, Uzo, Yubo and Sunrise-CHO, which are only separated from Oita, where the prefectural hall of Oita Prefecture is located, by a mountain, and it takes only 15 minutes by railway.

Biefu is famous for its hot spring industry. There are more than 2 public hot springs in the city, and there are only a handful of springs in the world. There are about 2,7 hot springs all over the urban area of about 5 square kilometers. The earliest historical record of Biefu area is the appearance of "Feng Hou Guo Tu Ji" and "Yi Yu Guo Tu Ji", which records that this place is a hot spring place.

In the Kamakura era and Muromachi era, it was under the rule of Daiyou. In the edo period, it became the leader of the shogunate. It has been a famous hot spring attraction since the early Meiji period, and about 8 thousand tourists come to Beppu for hot springs every year.

By the early Showa, it had grown to nearly 2 million tourists every year, and became the largest hot spring area in Japan. There are about 4 million tourists every year, so more than 8% of the employed people in the city are engaged in service industry.

Beppu Cuisine:

1. Pufferfish Cuisine: Cut the puffer fish caught in Fenghou Waterway into petal-like slices, and then dip them in the Cabos lime juice, a specialty of Dafan, which is a unique Pufferu puffer fish cuisine.

2. Steamed vegetables in hell: a unique cooking method of Biefu, which uses the jet of hot springs to steam all kinds of delicacies, and uses high-temperature steam to steam the raw materials in one breath, which is delicious.

3. dumplings soup: a dish made by putting salt into wheat flour and kneading it repeatedly, pulling it into noodles and putting it into miso soup with vegetables and meat.