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• NHK BS-Hi: Japan in the Steam
  
  In the TV programme of NHK BS-Hivision, "Japan in the Steam", YOKOSO Ryokan was introduced among others concerning Kannawa hot springs area, and its English version of "Inspirational Hot Springs" is now available as follows: http://sales.micojapan.com/detail/617
  
  
• NHK WORLD: "BEPPU: Oita-Pref."
  
  YOKOSO's steam-powered ovens were also introduced in this TV programme.
  
  
• France 5: Carnets du Japon
  
  TV programme of France 5, "Carnets du Japon", introduced various areas of Japan, including Beppu in a series in July and August 2005. In particular, Beppu, including YOKOSO's steam-powered ovens, was shown in its TV programme of 21st August.
  
  
• USA: Frommer's Japan
  
  "YOKOSO Housed in a beige-colored, two-story building on Ideyuzaka, the main road between the group of Hells, YOKOSO offers what are probably the cheapest rooms in all of Beppu. Run by English-speaking, third-generation innkeepers, it has clean Japanese-style rooms equipped with only the basics. Air-conditioning in summer is coin operated, but steam heating is free. No meals are served, but a communal open-air kitchen is available for do-it-yourselfers, complete with a hot-springs-powered oven and suggestions for how long to cook food in bamboo steamers (20 min. for potatoes; there's a grocery store across the street). Four public baths boast water from hot springs. In an annex are 7 more rooms, a rotenburo (outdoor bath; you can wear your swimming suit here), and a carp pond in a garden. It also has one of the most interesting saunas I've ever seen, so tiny you have to crawl inside; heated naturally with hot springs, it even has a grass floor, as in the days of yore. Note that there's an 11pm curfew here."
  
  
• Germany: REISE Know-How Japan
  
  "YOKOSO Ryokan \, 27 Zimmer. Sehr preiswertes Ryokan, ursprunglich ein Jigoku, spater wurde das Ryokan um die heisse Quelle errichtet. Das YOKOSO ist Unterkunft und Kurort zugleich: Dampf-Onsen und Freiluft-Onsen sind im Preis der Ubernachtung inbegriffen. Gemeinschaftskuche im Freien, hier kann mit Onsen-Dampf gekocht werden. Das english sprechende Besitzerpaar ist sehr hilfsbereit und weist gerne in die authentische Onsen-Welt ein. Internet 100 Yen fur 30 Minuten. Mit dem Oita Kotsu-Bus Nr33 order 34 ab JR Beppu bis zur Endstation Kannawa und die kleine Strasse rund 150 Meter bergauf."
  
  
• Introduction of YOKOSO Ryokan by Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University to their Students (Excerpts)
  
  
• Although in Japanese, YOKOSO was introduecd in some books, magazines and newspapers such as follows:
  
  "Tabirie Yufuin, Beppu & Kurokawa Onsen"/ "Mapple Oita/Beppu/Yufuin"/ "Elle Japon"/ "Oita's Onsen"/ "Onsen Zukan"/ "Seikatsu HotMorning"/ "Touring Mapple 7 Kyushu-Okinawa"/ "Burari Yunomachi Kyushu"/ "Tabi no Techou""Tabi no Techou2"/ "Real Onsen in Kyushu 4: Mukashi nagara no Tojiyado"/ "Monthly Ho"/ "Taiken no Tabi"/ "Sansaku Zukan Beppu"/ "Nishinihon Newspaper"/ "CTB TV GUIDE".
  
  
• YOKOSO has received these e-mails etc from foreign guests.