Kyushu 2023 - Beppu Cooking Pot Hell (Kamado Jigoku) - Part 1

Just a short walk away, was Cooking Pot Hell. I didn't know that Kamado means cooking pot. But I guess that kinda explains all the cooking pot around. Above is the entrance into the park. 

 

And here is our tickets! The red demon here, looks kinda familiar. Didn't we see a blue version of it in Hokkaido last time? 

Here is a gigantic cooking pot with the demon just outside the entrance. Check out the small demon boys with horns on the sign too. You can find a lot of them all over the park inside. 

Inside the park, there was another gigantic aqua whiter looking steaming pond of water. To be frank, after awhile, they all kinda looked alike, lol.

Some signs explaining about the place.

The beautiful blur coloured water. It's steaming hot. I wonder do people from long time ago got curious about them and just stepped into these water and get their flesh and bones melted? 

The inside version of the cooking pot and the demon. Frankly these hell looks kinda cheesy to me :P

Venturing further in, we found a red clay pond that is bubbling occasionally.

More mud ponds. Here you will also see the demon boys warning sign. I think it's so cute.

Next was a section where steams were just coming out. So the signs says onsen for your throat on the left, and onsen for beautiful skin on your right. Since this was during post covid time, everyone thought it was a great idea to go steam your throat with these sulpher  rich steam. I personally did a few here!

Note that the steam can be pretty hot. The sign here says that they are 100 degree celcius! So you got to be careful.

You could also drink the water here, at 80 degrees celcius. The sign says drinking this will make you younger by 10 years! 10yen per paper cup!

The cute demon boy here again, warning visitors not to anyhow walk into some bubbling area.

Hold your child's hand, keep them safe from burning steam, mud, and water!

There was a cute cafe inside too, and the food and drinks were cooked using the water or steam from the hell here. Since it was mid morning by now, I got myself a nikkuman (meat bun) cooked in hell steam :) Delicious!

Me walking around outside the cooking pot hell.