🏮A small ryokan tucked into Kannawa, one of Beppu's eight onsen districts
🌙A facade that comes into its own under soft light at night
🚗Seven minutes by car from Beppu IC, twenty by taxi from JR Beppu Station
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Chloride Water That Warms You Through
♨️Manrikiya no Yu is a chloride spring that heats you from the inside out
🪨A rock bath unchanged since the inn opened, paired with a semi-open-air bath
🌿An indoor hinoki cypress bath with the faint scent of wood
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Unhurried Private Bathing
🛁A trim bathhouse of hinoki timber and stone
🤍'Nobi-nobi' private bathing, taken at your own pace
♨️The kind of soak that puts you straight to sleep
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Oita Kaiseki
🥩A4-grade Oita wagyu steak, grilled slice by slice
🐟Seki-aji and seki-saba brought in fresh from Saganoseki
🍋A whole plate of Oita kabosu-fed hirame flounder
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Local Cooking, Onsen-Made
🍚Breakfast of steam-cooked vegetables and soft onsen eggs
🍢Eel rice grilled over the spring, and other local specialties
🍶'Niren', a pear liqueur made from Hita pears, alongside dinner
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Rooms Made With Care
🍁The 'Kaede' suite with a separate bedroom: a tatami room plus six mats for sleeping
🌸'Botan', a bright corner tatami room
🗝️Wooden keyrings and room plaques handmade by Kiito
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Strolling Kannawa
♨️Discount tickets for nearby baths like Hyotan Onsen and Tetsuwa Steam
👘Change into a yukata and make the rounds of Kannawa's baths
🌄The steam curling through the streets, as only an onsen town does it
Down a steam-wreathed lane in Beppu's Kannawa Onsen, Manrikiya looks after its guests with chloride-spring private baths and the flavors of Oita. Nothing flashy, everything considered, and the road behind you melts away.
