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It can be presumed that twenty one Ryokans (Japanese style inns) had been established in Beppu Spa during Bunka period (1804-1818), most of them located along Kokura road. After the late Edo era, inns and a pleasure quarter seem to have been built along the lower area of Nagare-kawa river, where there were Shio-yu (a beach spa) and a harbor near Nagori-bashi bridge.
The Beppu Port (est. 1871) made Beppu Spa, as a pleasure quarter, more active, whereas only nineteen Ryokans were newly settled in around 1877, when the inns were built also along the lower Nagare-kawa as well as in around 1888.
