Japanese town of Beppu on the island of Kyushu is a hot spring resort with over 3000 of them

Beppu, a city on the island of Kyushu in Japan, is a hot spring resort with over 3,000 of them that keep ejecting over 130,000 tons of scalding water every day. In Yellowstone National Park in the US, the discharges are more.
In Beppu, this is attributed to geothermal activity is Japan’s largest active volcano which is the 5,200ft-tall Mount Aso - it is located just 60 miles to the south west of the town.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 16 November 2016.

The eight major geothermal hotspots in the city are too hot to bathe in and are often called the eight hells of Beppu. Tourists always get a warm welcome. They are treated to eggs being boiled in the hot springs, foot baths in some of the cooler ponds and huge souvenir shops. The warm water is also piped into homes and businesses.
Mount Aso’s current shape was formed when it erupted some 300,000 years ago. Tourists can visit the crater by car as there are parking spaces a short-walk from the edge. There is also a cable car that affords visitors views of the furnace inside.
Incidentally, Mount Aso had erupted for the first time in almost two decades in October and blanketed cities almost 150 miles away in grey ash.


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