~2h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
An hour of brush, ink and quiet in an old machiya near downtown — Beppu’s highest-rated small experience, and the rare one that fits a short call.
Shodo is writing as a discipline rather than a craft, judged on the movement of the stroke rather than the finished letter. Doing it in an old Beppu house is the point: the room, the floor and the silence are part of the practice, and none of it works in a hurry.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
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Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
4 hr 30 min for bothThe 1879 grand dame of public baths under a temple-grade roof — entry costs pocket change and the wooden lobby alone is worth the trip.
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4 hr 30 min for bothTempura-fried chicken with ponzu and mustard — invented at Toyoken in 1926 and still their kitchen’s pride.
See the detail → 5 hr for bothAttendants shovel volcanically heated sand over you until only your face is left thinking.
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