Thanks to Greg, the list of places I want to visit just got longer. (I could technically do it in day trip from Mie, where I live. But I think I’d have to spend the night, so I could take time to appreciate those onsens. ♨️
What always comes to my mind when I see drone shots in your videos: Can you make a video about using a drone in Japan? (or maybe you already have one?) Really nice video about a lovely city :D
Greg, thanks for touching on geothermal electricity generation and other geothermal uses besides onsen. I DO hope that a full dedicated series is in the offing! On a different note, I think what you called "sewer" is probably storm drain runoff, as sewer usually is referred to as the pipes containing effluent from toilets and other wastewater. I would be surprised if Japan had open channels of excrement running through it's cities and towns, but perhaps the word is used interchangeably.
Yes, I meant to say storm drain. As for geothermal energy in Japan, I do want to make a video about. Japan has a lot of potential but is only using a fraction of the potential.
This is really insightful. I've visited Yufuin/Beppo a few years back and had the opportunity to stay in a minpaku that has an onsen. Guess I know how they work right now!
Yes, it is a cemetery. The people passed away are in urns in the graves, which are in the stone monuments. It would make a really interesting video, but it'd be also very hard to get the permission to film the funeral process. We unfortunately had to go through one last year.
@@LifeWhereImFrom I am sorry to hear about your loss and I hope your family is doing well. It's not just about to film the funeral process, it would be about cemetery types, burial choices, etc. Eg: I think cremation is the most common method. What about a western style wooden coffin? Is there even a place for a 'full body burial' (so uncremated)? Is it allowed to spread the ashes somewhere (not allowed in my country)? What about cemeteries in cities (especially large cities)? Is there one big or small ones (in my country the capital has one giant cemetery and a few smaller ones. you only get burried in the smaller ones if you can buy a grave there). Do you have to pay for a grave on a cemetery (the place itself, not the stone) What about your grave after a certain time (in my country your grave is reused once it wasn't paied for for a certain amount of time)? What if you die outside of Japan? How much religion is involved into the average ceremony? Even the I think the actual ceremony would be very interesting as well, there are soo many other topics worth talking about that it could be another multi part episode EDIT: I thought about some more: What about cemeteries in the woods (in my country a cemetery in the woods is 'trending right now)? What about donating your body to scienence? What about a burial for unknown people (in my country there is a special cemetery for people with unknown name)? What about 'mass graves' for families (on my place work there is a cemetery where several of a former knights family are buried)? What about mass graves (eg. from WW2) in general?
We are currently in Kanagawa. I can say that the onsens we have been to are amazing and well worth the search for them. I say search because it is still a little frustrating finding onsens that are accepting of westerners with tattoos. Mostly we are forced into paying much more for a private onsen experience, which isn't always bad because we can take a bath as a family vs being split up by gender. As always, I enjoyed you video.
Hey Greg. Great vid, how hot was that lake with the steam rising out of it at 2:30? And it took me by surprise carp could live in those lakes. I presume they're not a special type of carp and they can live in many places.
Steam is rising, but that doesn't mean the water is boiling. It's more like the difference in temperature is causing the steam to rise. The water was warm though. If I remember correctly, maybe something like swimming pool temperature?
Well now I know where (or rather, what kind of things) I want to go to next time I go to Japan. As for the question at the end, afaik we don't use any geothermal energy amount worth mentioning, but we do use a lot of district heating (which is ran much like I imagine geothermal heating would be, just from a centralized plant that heats it by burning waste or whatever) and that's pretty cool.
I don't know where the assumption that a city with 8 hot springs is the city with most hot springs in the world while just in Sofia, Bulgaria you can find more than 40, grouped in 8 geothermal zones. So even if you don't count the single hot springs, but the thermal zones the springs are associated with, you still don't have THE city with most hot springs. It's one of those cities. And I haven't even looked if there are cities with more.
There is 8 geothermal hot spring zones in Beppu, with nearly 2900 hot spring vents within the city. Thus being the city with the most onsen *in Japan* and the second largest volume of hot springs water discharged in the world (second to Yellowstone in the US).
Beppu is now very high on my list of places to visit. Any chance you could explain the bald hill in the background of many of the shots? Google wasn't much help.
That’s Mount Ogi! They perform a burning ritual every spring to clear the fields of dead foliage and stimulate new growth. Look up Ogiyama Fire Festival, the pictures are so cool :)
Hey Greg, I wonder what the communal apartment sento/hot spring smelled like? Was it just fresh hot humid air or was there an element of damp in the air? Also, with so much warm/hot water - standing or flowing - what is done about the risk of bacterial overgrowth in the private and public spaces- Legionnaire's disease comes to mind off the top of my head. Any health checks by some govt monitoring team?
Based on questions, I think a lot of people think that onsens always smell like sulphur. There are many different mixes of minerals, so it really depends on what your onsen water is like. This one didn't have any smell as far as I can remember, nor did the other ones I showed in the video. But in the Kannawa area, the area with all the steam, there is sulphur content that you can indeed smell. For the communal bath, it's always ventilated. I don't know about bacteria to tell you the truth.
You need to do a collaboration with the mangaka for Thermae Romae Novae. I've been watching the anime here in the states. My favorite part of the show is the live action scenes where she visits onsen.
1min 25seconds - Greg, that's not a water pump, that is a AIR Compressor, like used in home or very small garages to inflate tyres etc. Can anyone explain why there is that air compressor there and what is the purpose function ?
The water pipe from the spring to inside the house might need to be primed, think sucking on a hose to to get a liquid to start to flow. As to why it runs 24/7, it might be because the spring water flow isn't consistent enough, and without the compressor the flow would stop at some point.
@@__aceofspades So it's using a venturi effect using compressed air... very inefficient way to pump water by the way, so maybe it's also used to aerate the spring water to help remove sulphur smell. Still I'd hate to have the electric power bill & maintenance on that air compressor.
We have the same where I live in a estuary which has geothermal input. Ours isn't actually hot, just warm, so when the air is cold it steams. In summer it doesn't steam cause the air is warm, even though the water is warm nearing on hot in summer because of the hot sun. The cold water sinks to the bottom in summer, so some fish do cook on a hot day if they get trapped in a shallow pool as the tide goes out. I feel like koi would be hardier than our local fish though, ours is basically just wild flounder and small sprats, they live out in the cold open ocean too, they aren't really made for warm/hot water.
Wow! Lovely place! I'm a little sad I didn't see the video when it first came out. The thumbnail was different than usual, though beautiful, not as eye catching as the usual red logo and the bold text and colors as previous thumbnails
Actually very simple to heat houses with the water, does not take much investment and work. Simple heat exchanger and radiator's. Same with geothermal with all the already flowing water can be taped, use multiple units at low output, would not interfere with tourism etc. I think has more to do with the attitude and conservatism, than technology.
If you've done it before, I won't argue with you, I only know what I've read and heard from people. A lot of the water in the area is hard with minerals, so unless you treat it before, it can be an issue with deposits in the pipes. So you'd want to run a closed loop system I would imagine. But as far as I know you'd really want to drill down some to do a closed loop system, which you're not permitted to do, too much drilling in the area already. You have to be 100 metres from another drilling point, which means in practical terms, very little can get done in the city. Onsens were well established in the area before any of the modern geothermal tech was available.
@@LifeWhereImFrom that's why you use heat exchanger, the radiator and pipes are closed system. So no issues for corrosion, you can buy it off the shelf in Europe. Cost around $3000.00 for a house like that. Those designs can be easily replicated. Especially having 100C water makes it very easy. You don't need to drill just use existing flowing water. So no additional infrastructure is needed.
Hey Greg, I was wondering what kind of apartment the building with the community bath is. Is it a regular apartment building that anyone can move into, or is it maybe a company dormitory? Also, who was the gentleman showing you around? (Maybe the janitor of the complex or an employee of the onsen company?)Greetings from Yokohama!
As far as I know, the apartment building is either a regular apartment building or a low income city or prefecture run place. But there are many apartment complexes that anyone can rent that have more modern looking communal baths. That gentleman is a specialized onsen maintenance guy. He's apparently the guy you can when you need to know about onsens in the area.
Please make a wish with ema at any Shinto Shrine once a week for me, write this "i hope Hermawan be health and be fresh as soon as possible", thanks for it.
There is no other city in the world with more hot spring output. The only area in the world (not city) with more hot spring output is Yellowstone National Park in the US.
Sadly no, in Guatemala we have a great opportunity for solar, but geothermal energy would be an idea since we do have areas that have use of thermal waters, 2 areas here actually, but we would need to educate the area population for that, since like as many 3rd world countries, a bad goverment, makes ignorance grow.
oh that tub looks so inviting ... and you say its rusty because of the hot spring lol .... looks like a cesspool temporary storage of liquid waste and sewage. why didnt you go into it chap?
Thanks for another great Video. I really enjoy your Videos about Japan. my favorits are thise about culture, nature, hot springs, food, Restaurants, buildings and so on. i enjoy any videos of yours you did so far. it really would be a lose if you stop doing those. not only for us, but also for UA-cam and Japan. Keep up the great work. Much Love from your biggest Fan.
If you missed the first video I made in Beppu about hot springs homes you can buy, here's the link ua-cam.com/video/8unEF9XAyBY/v-deo.html
This is my favorite YT channel. The fact that no one has commented on this video in 5 months is baffling to me....
Thanks to Greg, the list of places I want to visit just got longer. (I could technically do it in day trip from Mie, where I live. But I think I’d have to spend the night, so I could take time to appreciate those onsens. ♨️
Indeed, I have a far greater appreciation for Japan and all its variety, thanks for Greg and his family.
Lovely seeing this hot spring town! Also love to see how similar and different it is from the hot springs I've been to in Colorado, USA.
Thank you for this look at Beppu. Your sister-in- law is a good sport, in helping you with this video series. Arigato..
What always comes to my mind when I see drone shots in your videos: Can you make a video about using a drone in Japan? (or maybe you already have one?)
Really nice video about a lovely city :D
Awesome shots in this one, I am so grateful to have your window onto these amazing places!
This and the previous beppu upload is awesome! Actually all videos in this channel is awesome.
Fun fact, I'm watching this from Wiesbaden germany, a city with loads of hot springs, many fountains and some german versions of onsen (Thermalbad).
These kinds of videos are my happy place.
Food looks delicious and the river so beautiful 😍😍
Great video as always Greg. Love seeing the great places you explore.
Wow, this is really cool, I didn't know there was a hot springs hub in Japan! 😍
The onsen steamed food is fascinating! Deff interested to try that eventuality!
Greg, thanks for touching on geothermal electricity generation and other geothermal uses besides onsen. I DO hope that a full dedicated series is in the offing! On a different note, I think what you called "sewer" is probably storm drain runoff, as sewer usually is referred to as the pipes containing effluent from toilets and other wastewater. I would be surprised if Japan had open channels of excrement running through it's cities and towns, but perhaps the word is used interchangeably.
i thought the same thing, and then he went and tested it on his hands 😂
Yes, I meant to say storm drain. As for geothermal energy in Japan, I do want to make a video about. Japan has a lot of potential but is only using a fraction of the potential.
@@LifeWhereImFrom Beppu needs to talk to Reykjavik.
@@LifeWhereImFrom It really is. Iceland had almost entirely powered itself with geothermal
That leg + foot steam looks neat! I’ve never seen anything like it, but I imagine it would feel very nice.
Thank you.
Love onsen videos!
This is really insightful. I've visited Yufuin/Beppo a few years back and had the opportunity to stay in a minpaku that has an onsen. Guess I know how they work right now!
Its get interesting with every video Greg makes
Thanks Greg. your video is very interesting.
6:04 Is that a cemetery in the background?
BTW: _How to find your final rest_ could also be an interesting topic for a video.
I noticed that two. Now I wonder are the remains of the people there are slowly being cooked.
Yes, it is a cemetery. The people passed away are in urns in the graves, which are in the stone monuments. It would make a really interesting video, but it'd be also very hard to get the permission to film the funeral process. We unfortunately had to go through one last year.
On this topic, Ryotoro from Ryotoros Japan did make a pretty extensive video on it last year. I can really recommend it.
@@LifeWhereImFrom I am sorry to hear about your loss and I hope your family is doing well.
It's not just about to film the funeral process, it would be about cemetery types, burial choices, etc.
Eg: I think cremation is the most common method.
What about a western style wooden coffin? Is there even a place for a 'full body burial' (so uncremated)?
Is it allowed to spread the ashes somewhere (not allowed in my country)?
What about cemeteries in cities (especially large cities)? Is there one big or small ones (in my country the capital has one giant cemetery and a few smaller ones. you only get burried in the smaller ones if you can buy a grave there).
Do you have to pay for a grave on a cemetery (the place itself, not the stone)
What about your grave after a certain time (in my country your grave is reused once it wasn't paied for for a certain amount of time)?
What if you die outside of Japan?
How much religion is involved into the average ceremony?
Even the I think the actual ceremony would be very interesting as well, there are soo many other topics worth talking about that it could be another multi part episode
EDIT:
I thought about some more:
What about cemeteries in the woods (in my country a cemetery in the woods is 'trending right now)?
What about donating your body to scienence?
What about a burial for unknown people (in my country there is a special cemetery for people with unknown name)?
What about 'mass graves' for families (on my place work there is a cemetery where several of a former knights family are buried)?
What about mass graves (eg. from WW2) in general?
That apartment communal bath looks terrifying!
as explained in the video. that is the effect of the minerals in the water. as they don't filter it at all.
We are currently in Kanagawa. I can say that the onsens we have been to are amazing and well worth the search for them. I say search because it is still a little frustrating finding onsens that are accepting of westerners with tattoos. Mostly we are forced into paying much more for a private onsen experience, which isn't always bad because we can take a bath as a family vs being split up by gender. As always, I enjoyed you video.
Thanks a lots
Hey Greg. Great vid, how hot was that lake with the steam rising out of it at 2:30? And it took me by surprise carp could live in those lakes. I presume they're not a special type of carp and they can live in many places.
Steam is rising, but that doesn't mean the water is boiling. It's more like the difference in temperature is causing the steam to rise. The water was warm though. If I remember correctly, maybe something like swimming pool temperature?
Been there n loved it 👍🏻
I’ve been inside those yu no hana huts and man it stank! Lol!
I’ve eaten the pudding there too and been to the onsen up the hill.
That looks like a nice place to visit, Douglas Adams got it right for this place!
Oh wow I remember hearing Dogen talk about this place in one of his videos. Beautiful place.
Dogen has bought a house in Beppu, with its own onsen. Check out his channel.
New upload!!!
Great work with mesmerizing sightseeing full of information. just loved it.
Aloha 🤙 from Honolulu! Thanks for another great video!
Hitchhikers Guide taught me, always bring a towel.
Looks like Japan might be opening in June. Maybe I’ll get to go this year to see the in-laws
If I had a Japanese hot spring in my house I could take a bath and make ramen at the same time. 🙂
wow buddy id like to make noodles in my toilet too.. not!
Well now I know where (or rather, what kind of things) I want to go to next time I go to Japan.
As for the question at the end, afaik we don't use any geothermal energy amount worth mentioning, but we do use a lot of district heating (which is ran much like I imagine geothermal heating would be, just from a centralized plant that heats it by burning waste or whatever) and that's pretty cool.
Ah, cool.
Awesome
I don't know where the assumption that a city with 8 hot springs is the city with most hot springs in the world while just in Sofia, Bulgaria you can find more than 40, grouped in 8 geothermal zones. So even if you don't count the single hot springs, but the thermal zones the springs are associated with, you still don't have THE city with most hot springs. It's one of those cities. And I haven't even looked if there are cities with more.
There is 8 geothermal hot spring zones in Beppu, with nearly 2900 hot spring vents within the city. Thus being the city with the most onsen *in Japan* and the second largest volume of hot springs water discharged in the world (second to Yellowstone in the US).
Enjoyed watching your video; interesting hotsprings in Beppu. Make you appreciate what people do to keep things going. Thank you for sharing.
Incredible experience, thanks soon much :-)
Beppu is now very high on my list of places to visit. Any chance you could explain the bald hill in the background of many of the shots? Google wasn't much help.
That’s Mount Ogi! They perform a burning ritual every spring to clear the fields of dead foliage and stimulate new growth. Look up Ogiyama Fire Festival, the pictures are so cool :)
I love your videos 📹 💕
Great video, thanks Greg.
Hey Greg, I wonder what the communal apartment sento/hot spring smelled like? Was it just fresh hot humid air or was there an element of damp in the air? Also, with so much warm/hot water - standing or flowing - what is done about the risk of bacterial overgrowth in the private and public spaces- Legionnaire's disease comes to mind off the top of my head. Any health checks by some govt monitoring team?
Based on questions, I think a lot of people think that onsens always smell like sulphur. There are many different mixes of minerals, so it really depends on what your onsen water is like. This one didn't have any smell as far as I can remember, nor did the other ones I showed in the video. But in the Kannawa area, the area with all the steam, there is sulphur content that you can indeed smell.
For the communal bath, it's always ventilated. I don't know about bacteria to tell you the truth.
@@LifeWhereImFrom Thanks for taking the time out to reply, I appreciate it x
You need to do a collaboration with the mangaka for Thermae Romae Novae. I've been watching the anime here in the states. My favorite part of the show is the live action scenes where she visits onsen.
will there be part 3?
1min 25seconds - Greg, that's not a water pump, that is a AIR Compressor, like used in home or very small garages to inflate tyres etc. Can anyone explain why there is that air compressor there and what is the purpose function ?
The water pipe from the spring to inside the house might need to be primed, think sucking on a hose to to get a liquid to start to flow. As to why it runs 24/7, it might be because the spring water flow isn't consistent enough, and without the compressor the flow would stop at some point.
@@__aceofspades So it's using a venturi effect using compressed air... very inefficient way to pump water by the way, so maybe it's also used to aerate the spring water to help remove sulphur smell. Still I'd hate to have the electric power bill & maintenance on that air compressor.
@@ausmartin1 Thanks for the clarification everyone!
地獄蒸！Hahaha Dante’s inferno Steamed Buns???😅
1:28 oh my god is it really that loud? this must be annoying if you just wanna chill in the bath outside 😵😵
You're on the other side of the fence, so it's much quieter, but you can hear it.
Will it ever run out?
Wait what the heck how can those fish live in that STEAMY LAKE?!?!
We have the same where I live in a estuary which has geothermal input.
Ours isn't actually hot, just warm, so when the air is cold it steams.
In summer it doesn't steam cause the air is warm, even though the water is warm nearing on hot in summer because of the hot sun.
The cold water sinks to the bottom in summer, so some fish do cook on a hot day if they get trapped in a shallow pool as the tide goes out.
I feel like koi would be hardier than our local fish though, ours is basically just wild flounder and small sprats, they live out in the cold open ocean too, they aren't really made for warm/hot water.
@@Mel-qr5ob Yes, the water is warm, but not boiling. If I remember correctly, it's like swimming pool temperature.
Wow! Lovely place! I'm a little sad I didn't see the video when it first came out. The thumbnail was different than usual, though beautiful, not as eye catching as the usual red logo and the bold text and colors as previous thumbnails
wouldn't it reduce the benefits by adding in tap water (diluting the minerals)?
I have my water 42 to 47. I love warm water
Did the steamed food taste of sulfur at all?
Not at all.
Actually very simple to heat houses with the water, does not take much investment and work. Simple heat exchanger and radiator's. Same with geothermal with all the already flowing water can be taped, use multiple units at low output, would not interfere with tourism etc. I think has more to do with the attitude and conservatism, than technology.
If you've done it before, I won't argue with you, I only know what I've read and heard from people. A lot of the water in the area is hard with minerals, so unless you treat it before, it can be an issue with deposits in the pipes. So you'd want to run a closed loop system I would imagine. But as far as I know you'd really want to drill down some to do a closed loop system, which you're not permitted to do, too much drilling in the area already. You have to be 100 metres from another drilling point, which means in practical terms, very little can get done in the city. Onsens were well established in the area before any of the modern geothermal tech was available.
@@LifeWhereImFrom that's why you use heat exchanger, the radiator and pipes are closed system. So no issues for corrosion, you can buy it off the shelf in Europe. Cost around $3000.00 for a house like that. Those designs can be easily replicated. Especially having 100C water makes it very easy. You don't need to drill just use existing flowing water. So no additional infrastructure is needed.
Please make a wish with ema at any Shinto Shrine, write this "i hope Hermawan be health and be fresh as soon as possible", thanks for it.
Hey Greg, I was wondering what kind of apartment the building with the community bath is. Is it a regular apartment building that anyone can move into, or is it maybe a company dormitory? Also, who was the gentleman showing you around? (Maybe the janitor of the complex or an employee of the onsen company?)Greetings from Yokohama!
As far as I know, the apartment building is either a regular apartment building or a low income city or prefecture run place. But there are many apartment complexes that anyone can rent that have more modern looking communal baths. That gentleman is a specialized onsen maintenance guy. He's apparently the guy you can when you need to know about onsens in the area.
Thanks for the great video! I really want to go to a hot spring some day. I bet it's really relaxing!!
How hellish is that steamy city in the summer?
.. Cheers ..
love hotspring videos in japan.. so peaceful
We want #Aiko ❤💕🌈
thank you for writing my wish on ema
I seriously thought Dogen was going to show up
Please make a wish with ema at any Shinto Shrine, write this "i hope cute robot at Hermawan body born in Shinto family", thanks for it.
Please make a wish with ema at any Shinto Shrine once a week for me, write this "i hope Hermawan be health and be fresh as soon as possible", thanks for it.
💕💕💕💕💕🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
No pudding report? That's outrageous! 🤪
I know!
5:12 they couldn't find a better excuse to keep foreigners out? lol
Right. I don’t understand the logic. Locals can’t transmit covid?
It’s not a ban against foreigners. It’s for non-members. So if you’re not from Beppu you can’t use it (for the time being).
It’s sucks everything is closed due to Covid
What's the japanese city with the most hot springs outside of Japan?
Wait what do you mean? if it is a city outside of Japan. It's not a Japanese city.
There is no other city in the world with more hot spring output. The only area in the world (not city) with more hot spring output is Yellowstone National Park in the US.
Can You Make a Video about Koi Fish in Japan ?
That would be very interesting 🤔
If this is literal Hell on Earth, then give me eternal damnation.
Sadly no, in Guatemala we have a great opportunity for solar, but geothermal energy would be an idea since we do have areas that have use of thermal waters, 2 areas here actually, but we would need to educate the area population for that, since like as many 3rd world countries, a bad goverment, makes ignorance grow.
Please make a wish with ema again for me at any Shinto Shrine, i hope get miracle.
With natural steam cooking Putin can't threaten you with gas blockage.
oh that tub looks so inviting ... and you say its rusty because of the hot spring lol .... looks like a cesspool temporary storage of liquid waste and sewage. why didnt you go into it chap?
I would have if I were allowed to.
I know it's the minerals but it looks so unhygienic😅
I’m starting to think you like hot springs
O miss Aiko in the videos
Hi
My name is Hermawan, i hope be health and be fresh, i hope get miracle.
Bathing culture is basex
i'm in ontario, canada, and there's no geothermal use.
Do you say Fungi or Fungus?
Salup
Bb
Chalup
FAIL
No mention of the unique mud baths
Thanks for another great Video. I really enjoy your Videos about Japan. my favorits are thise about culture, nature, hot springs, food, Restaurants, buildings and so on. i enjoy any videos of yours you did so far. it really would be a lose if you stop doing those. not only for us, but also for UA-cam and Japan.
Keep up the great work. Much Love from your biggest Fan.