Beppu was such a nice town to just laze about it, I had a great time travelling to the onsen just out of town and had a real experience for the first time. I got such a great vibe from Beppu, I think that it was just because it was a town in the south of Japan, where a lot of locals like to come on weekends or on days off to just relax, I meet some great people here and would have liked to stay longer.

The first onsen that I visited was a free public one that took about 1.5 hours to get to, but it was well worth it, up in the mountains and hidden by bushes and a cemetery. I had a few broken conversations with some other Japanese men which was hard but the hardest part was actually going through the onsen ritual of washing yourself and then getting in naked, once you do it though you are right, I was in and out of different onsens for the rest of the day.

My second day I tried to go to Aso-san to see a live volcano, but as with live volcano’s it was closed due to dangerous fumes blowing in the wrong direction, it was a nice journey but felt a bit wasted.

I had planned to make my way to Nagasaki, but unfortunately I cannot find any accommodation so I had a to change plans and go to Hiroshima instead.