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| | Beppu, Japan’s hot springs capital |
 | | Having come to Beppu on a university scholarship, the demands of Japanese academia, not to mention karaoke and alcohol binges, seemed to outweigh any further research on my part into the onsen. |
 | | With a kabuki theater, karaoke hall, plus the essential onsen, I concluded that circa 2040 I would pay a visit to Beppu, Japan, where at least I knew there was a place to be loud, obnoxiously drunk, and free-spirited in all my elderly glory. |
 | | Indeed, the descriptions of Beppu in several English guidebooks did add to my negative presumptions; one highlighted aspect of the city in the guidebooks was, astonishingly, the Beppu Sex Museum, an attraction certainly not worth mentioning in comparison to the enormous amounts of ryokan and onsen they failed to ever mention. |
| www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/JAN2005/Beppu_Japan.htm (1085 words) |
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