Oita: Beppu's Steaming Hot Springs and Home-Style Kyushu Cooking
Oita, on the island of Kyushu, is famed as Japan's onsen prefecture: steam from Beppu's hot springs rises all over town, and the resort village of Yufuin sits in the highlands nearby. Local home cooking, from toriten chicken tempura to dango-jiru dumpling soup, is part of the region's identity.
In Oita, Halal Gourmet Japan features a chicken specialty restaurant that describes its dishes as made with halal-friendly local brand chicken and says it studies halal Japanese cooking together with the mosque and Muslim university students in Beppu. The listings also include a sweets teahouse that makes dango-jiru and yaseuma by hand and offers a halal-friendly menu, a ramen shop with halal-friendly ramen, and a Muslim-owned Indian curry restaurant that says it offers dishes made with halal meat. A university cafeteria with halal dishes on the menu and a registered prayer space is listed as well.
For prayer, the listings include Beppu Masjid, with qibla direction and wudu facilities — easy to combine with a stroll through the steaming streets of the hot-spring town.
Soak up the onsen atmosphere, wander Yufuin's highland lanes, and use the Halal Gourmet Japan map to line up meals and prayer along your route through Kyushu.
Content reviewed: August 20, 2026
