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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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

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

Beppu Tower was built in two years, from 1956 to 57 and was originally planned to open the Beppu Tourism Exhibition, held from March 20 through May 20, 1957.

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

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.

The college maintains international exchange ties with three institutions: Russia's Novosibirsk Conservatory, Australia's University of Tasmania, and Japan's Beppu University.

* international masters of material flow management, together with Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in ( Beppu, Japan ).

Beppu contains eight major geothermal hot spots, which are sometimes referred to as the " eight hells of Beppu ".

The university opened at Jumonjibaru, above Beppu City in April 2000.

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

The city of Beppu has sister city relationships with the following locations.

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

In Japan, links have been established with Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, Aichi Shukutoku University, Tokyo Seitoku University, Kochi University, Sacred Heart University, and Beppu University.

Beppu turned professional with in 2005, and stayed with them until 2007.

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

Later it became clear that Beppu still had one year left on his contract with Skil-Shimano, so he had to buy himself out of the contract.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.