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Beppu Onsen district, Beppu
Beppu Brewery is the hot-spring town's first craft-beer brewery, opened in 2022 with an on-site brewhouse and restaurant built for the after-bath drink. The taproom pours beers brewed on the premises alongside local food in the heart of the Beppu onsen quarter.
Best for Beppu-brewed craft beer
Yumigahama, Beppu
Mikiko Sato converted her Beppu home into a bamboo workshop and shop, weaving madake baskets, bags, accessories and everyday objects after training at the city's Traditional Bamboo Crafts Center. Her work won the President's Award at the 2016 Bamboo Crafts in Daily Life exhibition, and the space doubles as a café where visitors watch the weaving up close.
Best for Handwoven madake baskets, bags and accessories
Baba, Beppu
Moriguchi is a second-generation Beppu workshop on Baba street whose madake baskets, sieves, bags and flower vases are made in the tradition that earned Beppu bamboo craft its 1979 national Traditional Craft designation. The family splits and weaves Oita-grown bamboo by hand, producing both utilitarian ware and contemporary decorative pieces.
Best for Traditional and contemporary bamboo basketry
Myoban, Beppu
Okamotoya has operated in Beppu's Myoban hot-spring district since 1875. Its shop makes signature jigoku-mushi pudding, steamed with geothermal heat, and sells yunohana mineral bath crystals harvested in traditional hillside huts; the family also runs the adjoining Okamotoya ryokan.
Best for Hell-steamed pudding and yunohana bath crystals
Yayoi Tengu-dori, Beppu
Founded in 1945 on the Yayoi Tengu-dori arcade near Beppu Station, Sanmi Zabon-ten specializes in zabon-zuke, candied pomelo peel that its first generation reinvented without the usual sugar coating so the pieces resemble translucent jewels. Each additive-free batch is handmade in three styles, kohaku, bekkou and shirayu, using pomelo peel sourced from Akune in Kagoshima.
Best for Zabon-zuke candied pomelo peel
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