8 Best Bay-View Resorts in Beppu
Sea Views · Onsen With a View · Seafront Ryokan
From ¥14,000/night · Updated 2026

Score 9.5 from 228 Trip.com guests — if you've ever wanted to open the curtains and find the blue bay right in front of you, ANA InterContinental Beppu is the property that makes it happen best in this city. Designed by Kengo Kuma and set into the Kannawa hillside, all 89 rooms face Beppu Bay — there is genuinely no room here without the view. What guests talk about most is the infinity pool: an edge design that appears to flow down toward the bay below. Watch the sunset from there as the onsen vapour from Kannawa rises in the foreground, and many call it the most memorable half-hour of their trip. The baths use real Myoban mineral water, paired with a HARNN spa from Thailand. Honestly, it's the most expensive stay in Beppu and it sits up the hill, away from the centre. But if you came to genuinely unwind and want the best bay view in town — this is the answer.

Score 9.4 on Trip.com (and TripAdvisor's #1 onsen in Beppu, 4.5 from 404 reviews) — if you want a bay-view onsen in your own room, Amane Resort Seikai is the one. The resort sits right on the Kamegawa seafront, and every room is an ocean-view room with a private open-air onsen on the balcony, facing the bay. That means you soak in hot mineral water and watch boats cross Beppu Bay from morning to night — no sharing, no queue. Rooms are surprisingly spacious, and guests consistently praise the privacy and the attentive service. Dinner is kaiseki built around fresh Kyushu seafood. Honestly, it isn't cheap, and it's about a 25-minute walk from the Beppu hells in Kannawa. But if the heart of your trip is a private onsen with a sea view, this is one of the very best in Beppu.

Score Trip 9.5 (Booking 8.9 for couples) — Amane Resort Gahama is a small seafront ryokan built around privacy, with just 31 rooms spread across 11,000-plus square metres right on the water, ranked #3 in Beppu on TripAdvisor. The signature: every room has a private onsen facing Beppu Bay — there are tower-style rooms where the sea feels like it's beside your bed, and villas scattered through the garden, some with their own private pool. Soaking in mineral water to the sound of waves while the sun rises over the bay is the image guests say stays with them. Dinner is kaiseki; breakfast is a buffet. Honestly, it's priced at the luxury end and the review count is still modest (because the room count is small). But for a quiet, private seafront ryokan with the bay filling the view, Gahama is the genuine rival to Seikai.

Score 8.9 from 2,460 Booking reviews — the most of any bay-view hotel in Beppu. Picture soaking 250 metres up a hillside, hot water cascading down five terraced levels like rice paddies, Beppu Bay stretching to the horizon in front of you. That's Tanayu, Suginoi Hotel's signature onsen, and guests say the same thing over and over: just an hour here pays for the whole trip. This is the pick for travellers who want a legendary bay view, everything in one place, and a price you can actually reach. There are 587 rooms across three wings (Hoshi Kan, new in January 2025, has the best bay views), five dining venues, a bowling alley, a game centre and the summer-only Aqua Garden. Honestly, it's big, it gets busy at peak times, and you'll need the shuttle to reach the Beppu hells. But for value against the bay view you get — starting at ¥14K — it's very hard to beat.

Score 9.7 on Trip.com (from 51 reviews) — the highest in this roundup. Bokai is a traditional seafront ryokan, and while the review count is still small and the building is a little older, what guests rave about is the kaiseki: genuinely excellent and remarkably generous, served both at dinner and breakfast. The onsen has indoor and outdoor baths plus a rooftop bath with a sea view, along with a sauna and massage chairs. Rooms are roomy; some look out over the bay nicely, others have a side-sea view (reviews are honest that the outlook varies by room). Honestly, on polish and modern luxury Bokai can't match the Amane resorts. But if you weight great ryokan food + a rooftop sea-view bath + a friendlier price, this is one of the highest happiness-per-yen stays on the bay.

Score 9.1 from 180 Trip.com guests — SEKIYA RESORT Galleria Midobaru is a design hotel that opened in 2020 on the Horita hillside, for travellers who want a bay view in a modern, art-led setting rather than a traditional ryokan. Every room has a balcony overlooking Beppu Bay plus an in-room onsen. The building is sculptural, and reviews praise the spacious, clean rooms, the views, the friendly service and a good breakfast. Beyond the in-room bath there's a public open-air onsen, a spa and yoga classes. One honest heads-up: the in-room onsen is sulphur water — some reviews note the sulphur smell is fairly strong and the bath water isn't piping hot (adjustable, but you wait). If you're fine with the onsen smell and like good design, this is a Beppu Bay view in a package that's different from everything else here.

Honest framing first — Kannawaen is not a seafront hotel. It's a ryokan in the Kannawa hells district, but its Annex and some upper-category rooms open onto a fine Beppu Bay view from the hillside. So it earns a place here as the option that combines a bay view + a legendary onsen + walkable hells. Score 9.4 from 374 Trip.com reviews. Its standout — found nowhere else — is a private onsen in every room filled with naturally deep-blue water, drawn from two sources on the 45,000-square-metre garden grounds. Rates are per person and include kaiseki dinner plus breakfast, and Umi-Jigoku (the Sea Hell) is a 5-minute walk away — you can check out and stroll straight into sightseeing. If a full bay view is the heart of your trip, others here win. But if you want an exceptional private onsen, easy hells access, and a bay view from the Annex as a bonus, Kannawaen is excellent value.

Score Trip 8.7 from 315 reviews (Booking 7.9) — Grand Mercure Beppu Bay Resort & Spa is a large waterfront Accor resort on the north shore of the bay (Hiji district), set right on the water with lovely views over Beppu Bay and the sunrise. The strength is that it's a full-service resort built for families and road-trippers — spacious sea-view rooms, an onsen, a pool and a spa. Staff score well (8.4) and the Wi-Fi is fast (9.4). Honest heads-up: the resort sits a fair way from central Beppu and the hells (about a 20-minute drive), so without a car it's harder to get around than an in-town hotel — and the Booking 7.9 is the lowest score in this roundup (Trip 8.7 still clears our bar). But if you're travelling as a family, driving yourselves, and want a seafront resort from ¥18K, this is a comfortable, good-value bay-view option.