is there a buddah statue in Beppu

is there a buddah statue in Beppu

Most temples in Japan have some kind of Buddha statue in various sizes. And there are temples all across Japan, including Beppu. So, yes, there are Buddha statues in Beppu.

hello. I don't think there are buddah statue in Beppu.
http://www.beppu-navi.jp/ml/english/index.htm
But there are famous statue in sama prefecture of Beppu called "usuki sekibutsu"
It made of stone .
http://www.usuki-kanko.com/
If you wanted to visit,you must take a JRline from Beppu to Usuki about 40 min,then from Usuki station take a bus to this area.
http://www.usuki-kanko.com/koutu/bus/bus_1.htm
on the left is Usuki station.
on the right is Usuki sekibutu
There aren't a lot of bus so you must check before you visit.

i found on ebay a postcard on sale with the statue of buddah on it it went for over 5.00 it was from beppu i used to live there at camp chickamauga for couple of years after i was adopted from the orphange in beppu thank you kimiko kusumoto if you want a post card of it i scanned it of ebay

While living in Beppu at Camp Chickamauga (dad in 19th Inf. Reg.) in 1950 I visited a Buddah which was said to be the second largest in Japan.

bob martin you was in camp chickmauga in the 50-s in beppu please email me i kimiko kusumoto and masako yokoyama was there in beppu at that time francescaholloway2000@yahoo.com thank you francesca-kimiko

i was stationed at camp chickamaugua in 1946-47. (19th Inf Reg., 24th Inf Div.,)
and remember seeing the statue in Beppu.

I was stationed in Camp Chicamauga (19th Infantry Regt, 24th Division) in 1946 and 1947- there was a very large statue of Buddah within 3 blocks of the waterfront- Why the mystery?

The huge Beppu Buddha was there in late 1954. The 187ARCT Mlitary Police Guarded it after a threat was made to blow it up.

My late father, Felix Moriconi, was stationed to the American Red Cross in Beppu in 1946. I recently found his photo album from Beppu and will be posting two photos of the shrine taken in 1946 on You Tube. I hope to have these, and other Beppu photos posted in a week or so.

I was there in the US Army in 1953/1954 and saw what I remember as the biggest sitting concrete Budda in Japan. It was mixed with the ashes of cremated remains. You could also walk inside of it.

Go to YouTube or Google Videos and do a search for "Beppu Japan 1946". In the video slide show, there are two images of the 80 foot high Buddha taken in 1946 by my late father, Felix Moriconi, who was stationed to the American Red Cross in Beppu in early to mid 1946.

I was with the 508th RCT in 1955 & 1956. I remember a huge Buddah not too far From Camp Chickamauga in Beppu

As a crew member of the USS Bausell DD 8-45, which made a courtesy visit to Beppu in 1966, I visited the Buddha Shrine there. It stood forty-fifty feet high and was a charcoal color. Visitors were allowed to walk inside where a number of funerary urns sat. These were filled with human cremains that would be added to the statue itself which was made entirely of those cremains. I shall never forget the experience.

I was in Infrantry Band 1947 and have pictures of 400 year old Budda near Camp.

There was a buddha statue in Beppu but it is no longer there:

http://www.508pir.org/odessey/japan/beppu_01.htm