* Beppu Tower

Other contemporary tower design philosophies were often less ornate, ranging from straight-edged steel lattice structures like the Osaka Tower and Beppu Tower in Japan, to the mixed heritage of European concrete towers like the very-visible Fernsehturm Berlin or the Fernmeldeturm Kühkopf.

Its original name was until 1961 when it was officially changed to Beppu Tower.

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In 1903 a training center for bamboo workers was established and present-day visitors to Beppu can enjoy learning about the history of bamboo, and hands-on classes at the Beppu City Traditional Bamboo Crafts Center.

Beppu was crowded with US soldiers, and musicians were in high demand to provide entertainment.

APU was made possible through the collaboration of three parties from the public and private sectors: Ōita Prefecture, Beppu City and the Ritsumeikan Academy.

In the early 1990s the concept of creating an international university in the City of Beppu was first raised by the Governor of Ōita Prefecture, Mr Morihiko Hiramatsu with the then Chancellor of the Ritsumeikan Trust in Kyoto, Mr Kawamoto.

In June 2006, Beppu was crowned the Japanese national champion in both the time trial and the road race.

On 23 November 2009, it was announced Beppu had signed to ride with for the 2010 season.

In October 2011, it was announced that Beppu would ride for the new Australian based team.

Native DJs such as Ryota Nozaki ( Jazztronik ), the two brothers Okino Shuya and Okino Yoshihiro of Kyoto Jazz Massive, Toshio Matsuura ( former member of the United Future Organization ) and DJ Shundai Matsuo creator of the popular monthly DJ event, Creole in Beppu, Japan as well as nu-jazz artists, Sleepwalker, GrooveLine, and Soil & " Pimp " Sessions have brought great change to the traditional notions of jazz in Japan.

From 2005 to 2006, all municipalities but Beppu, Tsukumi, Himeshima, Hiji, and all towns in Kusu District, merged, and the total municipalities went down from 58 on December 31, 2004, to 18 after the creation of the city of Kunisaki by merging with 4 towns from Higashikunisaki District on March 31, 2006.

During the Edo period ( 1600 – 1868 ) Beppu thrived as a tourist town and bamboo baskets and goods were used in the daily lives of the local people for everything from cooking to washing in order to meet the demands of the thriving tourist population.

This international event welcomes music lovers from all over the world to Beppu.

Beppu offers a wide range of cultural experiences, from an annual international music festival, to the unabashed Hihokan Sex Museum, which nevertheless must follow the law and suspend a glass plate above ancient art with frosted areas censoring the overlarge genital depictions.

The elaborate public aquarium " Umi-tamago " on the shoreline outside Beppu features basketballing sea otters, performing archer fish, and puzzle-solving octopuses, along with more naturalistic displays of freshwater and marine fish from around the world.

Otobaru Waterfall is a local natural attraction, located in the mountain area of Beppu city, 20 minutes ' walk from Wonder Rakutenchi, a traditional amusement park.

Takasakiyama Monkey Park is located 10 minutes from the centre of Beppu by bus.

It is 15 minutes by bus from Beppu station, on Route 10.

is located in the center of the city, a 15-minute walk from Beppu Station.

Five thousand fireworks are set off from boats floating on Beppu Bay.

* July 29 – U. S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchells and U. S. Navy aircraft from the aircraft carrier further damage the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaiyo in Beppu Bay.

The team's home town is Ōita city, but the club draws support from Beppu, Saiki and the entire Ōita Prefecture.

James Dickey opened his 1965 poem " The Firebombing ," about a nighttime air raid on the Japanese town of Beppu, with this epigraph from Eich's work:

The Martha Argerich music festival " Argerich's Meeting Point in Beppu " is an annual event held in Beppu City.

Beppu Fireworks Festival, held in late July, is one of the biggest fireworks displays in Oita.

In a series of articles in the Japanese magazine Shukan Bunshun published on January 25, February 1 and March 15, 2001, the magazine alleged that the stone tools discovered at the Hijiridaki cave site ( 聖嶽洞窟遺跡 ) in Ōita Prefecture had also been forgeries, and indicated that Mitsuo Kagawa, a professor at Beppu University, had been involved in that hoax.

Beppu is a busy passenger port with regular ferry links through the inland sea to Osaka and several other destinations.

The most famous of these are in Beppu, on the east shore, and around Mt.

Besides the volcanic area of the south, there are significant mud hot springs in the northern part of the island, around Beppu.

As governor Matsukata instituted a number of reforms including road building, starting the port of Beppu, and building a successful orphanage.

The prefecture's major water sources are Yamakuni River, Yakkan River, Ōita River, Ōno and Banjō River, and Beppu Bay and the Bungo Channel.

Ōita has a 759 kilometer coastline that has shoals in the north, Beppu Bay in the center, and a jagged or sawtooth " rias coastline " in the south.

This is contributed to the fact that Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University ( APU ) in Beppu accepts many foreign students.

The bamboo items soon became a souvenir that tourists purchased to take home and this solidified making Beppu a center for Bamboo crafts production.

Other works of his can be found throughout the prefecture including B-con Plaza in Beppu, Bungo-No-Kuni Information Library, the Audio-Visual Center in Oita City, and Yufu Train Station.

Ōita Prefecture is famous for its hot springs, particularly those in and around the city of Beppu, known as the ' hells ', or jigoku.

A tengu mikoshi ( portable shrine ) in the city of Beppu, Ōita | Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, on Kyūshū.

The accounts of his subordinates claim either that he uprighted himself and committed seppuku after his injury, or that he requested that the comrade Beppu Shinsuke assist his suicide.

is a city located in Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan, at the west end of Beppu Bay.

Beppu is a tourist town sandwiched between the sea and the mountains.