Overview

At Hotel New Tsuruta, you stay beside Beppu Bay in the centre of one of Japan’s best-known hot spring cities. Kitahama Park and the yacht harbour stretch out in front of the building, while restaurants, historic bathhouses, shopping streets, and local bars are within easy walking distance.

The property began as a small wooden inn in 1918 and has welcomed travellers to Beppu for more than a century. Its white exterior has a distinctive European-inspired appearance, while the warm wooden lobby retains a nostalgic character.

From selected rooms, the breakfast venue, and the sixth-floor hot spring baths, you can watch the morning sun rise over Beppu Bay. On clear days, the view reaches across the water toward Shikoku. With Beppu Station around eight minutes away on foot, Hotel New Tsuruta gives you an easy base for both hot spring bathing and city exploration.

Accommodation

You can choose from seven Japanese-style room categories, with options facing Beppu Bay or the mountains. Every room is non-smoking, and most include a private bath or shower. Rooms without bathing facilities give you more living space and direct access to the shared hot spring baths.

The 48-square-metre Premium Japanese-Modern Room faces Beppu Bay and works especially well for a longer stay. A long sofa gives you space to relax, while the large desk, small kitchen, and microwave make it easier to work or prepare simple food. The room also includes a private unit bathroom and toilet.

The Large Japanese Room measures 55 square metres and includes a 12-tatami sitting and sleeping area. An engawa beside the windows looks across Beppu Bay, creating a comfortable place to enjoy tea or watch the changing light over the water. A private unit bathroom and toilet are included.

The Standard Japanese Room is an eight-tatami room on the fifth or sixth floor. You can enjoy an elevated view of Beppu Bay from the window-side seating area, which also includes a practical desk. The room measures 28 square metres and has a private unit bathroom and toilet.

The Casual Japanese Room also measures 28 square metres and faces Beppu Bay from the third to fifth floors. It combines an eight-tatami layout with a veranda-style seating area and desk. Instead of a bathtub, you have a private shower room and toilet.

The Economy Japanese Room faces the mountains from the third to fifth floors. Its eight-tatami interior and tiled private bathroom retain a nostalgic Showa-period character. You do not have a sea view from this room, but you can see Beppu Bay from the public bath.

The Outbath Japanese Room is an eight-tatami room on the third or fourth floor. It includes a washbasin and toilet but no private bath or shower, so you use the sixth-floor hot spring facilities for bathing.

The Wide Japanese Room gives you 22.5 tatami mats of floor space. This mountain-facing room works well when you would like a large shared sitting and sleeping area. It includes a washbasin and toilet but no private bath.

Your room includes air conditioning, a television, refrigerator, Wi-Fi, towels, yukata, toiletries, and a hairdryer. Futon bedding allows you to enjoy the traditional rhythm of relaxing on tatami during the day and sleeping close to the floor at night.

Dining

Dinner is offered mainly on weekends and selected dates. Depending on your plan, you can choose between a Japanese kaiseki course and a creative Western-style course built around ingredients from Oita.

The Japanese dinner centres on Bungo beef sukiyaki and a sashimi boat filled with seasonal local fish. Other dishes may include three preparations of Hyuga chicken, Oita vegetables and seafood steamed with water from Nijo-no-Izumi, shiitake dumplings in a light sauce, locally grown rice, red miso soup, and dessert. The hot spring-steamed seafood and vegetables are served with kabosu soy sauce, adding the fresh citrus flavour closely associated with Oita.

The Western dinner introduces local produce through dishes that you can comfortably enjoy with chopsticks. A typical course may include kabosu-fed flounder carpaccio with crispy whitebait from Beppu Bay, slowly roasted Bungo beef with a dressing made from local Cattleya soy sauce, and thick Oita shiitake mushrooms prepared as a French-style fritter with shrimp mousse.

Further courses may include a cheese flan with Oita vegetables and local bacon, local fish steamed in white wine, Bungo chicken braised with beer and black pepper, beef stew with omelette rice, kabosu sherbet, crème brûlée flavoured with Kitsuki black tea, and seasonal fruit. Menus change with the season and ingredient availability.

Selected dinner plans include a self-service drink selection with soft drinks, local sake, Oita shochu, beer, wine, highballs, and kabosu drinks.

Breakfast is served as a Japanese and Western buffet in the eighth-floor dining venue, where large windows bring in views of Beppu Bay and the morning sun. You can begin the day with local dishes such as Beppu-style chicken tempura, hot spring-steamed fish and vegetables, handmade tofu, spicy shiitake mushrooms, local miso soup, dashi chazuke, hot spring eggs, and morning curry.

Western breakfast choices may include bread, scrambled eggs, ham, potatoes, pancakes, French toast, yoghurt, salads, fruit, and desserts. Breakfast is normally available from 07:00 to 09:30.

Onsen and Wellness

Nijo-no-Izumi is the sixth-floor panoramic hot spring bath, positioned around 20 metres above the ground. From the large windows, you can look across Beppu Bay while soaking in source-fed water that has risen here since the Tenpo period of the Edo era.

Water from two springs within the grounds is blended before flowing into the baths. The clear water emerges at around 60°C and combines the qualities of a bicarbonate spring and a chloride spring. Only cold water is added when required to lower the temperature, and the spring water flows continuously through the bathing pools without circulation.

The mildly alkaline water contains sodium bicarbonate and leaves your skin feeling smooth and refreshed after bathing. The chloride content helps the warmth remain with you after leaving the water. Traditional bathing indications include fatigue, sensitivity to cold, muscle discomfort, joint stiffness, neuralgia, minor cuts, minor burns, bruises, sprains, and some chronic skin and digestive conditions.

Separate bathing areas are provided for men and women. Each side includes a large indoor bath, a small open-air bath, a shallow reclining area with slightly cooler water, and a sauna. Parent-and-child washing spaces are also available in both bathing areas.

You can bathe from 15:00 until midnight and again from 05:00 until 09:00. An early morning soak is one of the highlights, especially when the rising sun colours the sky and reflects across Beppu Bay.

On the first floor, Wellness Beppu offers sports bodywork, foot therapy, oil treatments, facial care, and shorter massage sessions. These treatments give you another way to release tension after sightseeing or travelling.

Guests with Tattoos

You can use the shared indoor and open-air hot spring baths if you have tattoos. Please follow the bathing etiquette displayed in the changing and washing areas.

Facilities

Hotel New Tsuruta includes a warm wooden lobby with café service, an eighth-floor breakfast venue overlooking Beppu Bay, Wellness Beppu, banquet halls, meeting rooms, a shop, and vending machines selling soft drinks and alcoholic drinks. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the rooms and lobby, while luggage storage and reception services help you plan your time in Beppu.

Activities

Takegawara Onsen is only a short walk away. This historic public bathhouse dates from 1938 and is known for its grand karahafu entrance. You can combine a visit with a walk through Takegawara Koji, one of Japan’s oldest covered shopping passages.

Kitahama Park, the yacht harbour, and the Beppu Bay waterfront are directly in front of the property. A morning or evening walk lets you enjoy the sea air, harbour views, and changing light across the bay.

You can also walk to Beppu Tower, explore the restaurants and bars around Kitahama, or visit Hatoba Shrine and the older streets behind the hotel. The central location makes it easy to experience Beppu beyond the property, from small cafés and local seafood restaurants to neighbourhood bathhouses.

For a wider hot spring experience, you can explore the eight areas known together as Beppu Hattō. Each district has its own atmosphere and spring characteristics. The Beppu Hells, mountain viewpoints, museums, and family attractions are also within driving or public transport distance.

Additional Features

Hotel New Tsuruta has 60 rooms, including Japanese rooms, Western twin rooms, and additional room layouts. Check-in begins at 15:00, and check-out is at 10:00.

You can reach Beppu Station in around eight minutes on foot. The Beppu Kitahama airport bus stop is approximately three minutes away, giving you convenient connections to Oita Airport.

Partner parking is available beside the property on a first-come basis. The parking area is not complimentary, and alternative parking may be required when it is full. Cashless payment options and free Wi-Fi are available during your stay.