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

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

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

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

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

Beppu is also divided into eight major hot spring areas known as.

Beppu is part of the course of the annual Beppu-Ōita Marathon, which traces a path between Beppu and its neighbouring city of Ōita.

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.

One famous spot is " Beppu Kaihin Sunayu, Ashiyu ", (” Beppu marine beach sand bath and foot bath ").

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.

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

* Beppu Mizobe Gakuen College, established in 1986, is a private junior college located in the north of Beppu.

Beppu is home to the Oita Heat Devils basketball team.

** After suffering heavy damage during the airstrikes of July 24, 28, and 29, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaiyo is abandoned in Beppu Bay when she lists far enough for the port side of her flight deck to be underwater.

, or APU, is a private institution inaugurated April 2000 in Beppu, Ōita, Japan.

APU is located at Jumonjibaru in the City of Beppu, Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.

Beppu is geographically closer to Busan ( Korea ) than Tokyo ( Japan ).

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

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.

* April 1, 1955-The villages of Akiyoshi, Iwanaga, Beppu, and Kyōwa merged to form the town of Shūhō.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Itasca State Park, where the Mississippi River begins, is one of the outstanding tourist spots in Minnesota.

It is an exotic place, so different from the ordinary that the casual tourist is likely to see at first only the contrast and the ugliness of narrow streets lined with haphazard houses.

The wooden Pooh Bridge in Ashdown Forest, where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks, is a tourist attraction.

Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.

Ara Vartanian, the chairman of the Armenian Trade and Industry Chamber, thinks that this measure is a far more objective indicator of the tourist influx into the country.

The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.

Pushkar is about 11 kilometres from Ajmer and is an important tourist destination.

By October he had taken a prospective hijacker Mushabib al-Hamlan from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia where they both procured B-1 / B-2 tourist / business visas on October 28 – but Hamlan then decided not to proceed and is thought to have returned to his family.

Berlin also serves as a continental hub for air and rail transport, and is a popular tourist destination.

Politically, tourism is the more important of the two, as it employs a greater number of people within the Territory, and a larger proportion of the businesses in the tourist industry are locally owned, as are a number of the highly tourism-dependent sole traders ( for example, taxi drivers and street vendors ).

In many tourist or travel destinations, a bus is part of the tourist attraction, such as the North American tourist trolleys, London ’ s Routemaster heritage routes, or the customised buses of Malta, Asia and the Americas.

The city is mainly a tourist and resort centre, serving many ski lodges.

Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination.

Barcelona is today one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair / exhibitions and cultural-sports centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.

It is now a tourist attraction in its own right and dominates the village.

There is also a large tourist information centre located at Donegall Place.

The tourist industry is aimed at the luxury market and caters mainly to visitors from North America.

In order to get a tourist visa, the person needs to apply for it in the closest Costa Rican embassy to where the person is living.

Croatia is ranked among the top 20 most popular tourist destinations in the world, and was voted world's top tourism destination in 2005 by Lonely Planet.

It is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.