Oku-Jozankei, in the Usubetsu forest about ten minutes up the road from the town Ryokan

Kasho Gyoen

奥定山渓温泉 佳松御苑

Does Kasho Gyoen allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Ten minutes further up the road than the rest of Jozankei, in the Usubetsu forest, every one of the twenty-three suites has a bath at the window on a bicarbonate spring that does not run under the town below.

All twenty-three rooms are suites and all twenty-three have a forest-facing hot spring bath, which the inn states outright: “客室は全23室。そのすべてが「森の展望風呂」を備える「和スイートルーム」。” The water is Usubetsu, a calcium-sodium bicarbonate spring, different from the Jozankei source down the valley. No tattoo rule is published, and none is needed to bathe in your own room.

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客室は全23室。 そのすべてが 「森の展望風呂」を備える 「和スイートルーム」。

The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.

Where it is

Sapporo STN Jotetsu Kappa Liner coach 56 Hakodate STN Tomakomai STN New Chitose Airport Hotel location
Jozankei Onsen Higashi 2-chome STN
Sapporo to Noboribetsu Onsen is about 1 h 45: the Suzuran, JR’s limited express (a faster train with fewer stops and a fee on top of the fare), then a Donan bus of 21 minutes up to the onsen terminal. Toyako Onsen is the Hokuto, the limited express to Hakodate, as far as Toya, then a Donan bus of 24 minutes around the lake, about 2 h 20 in all. Niseko is about 3 h 25 by way of Otaru and Kutchan, or a direct highway coach for less money. Jozankei has no railway: the Jotetsu Kappa Liner runs there from Sapporo Station in 56 minutes and is booked in advance. Kasho Gyoen · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

What happens when you arrive

Skip the shared baths and reserve the private one the way this page describes. Once the door is closed, the bath is yours.

How we know

Confirmed from official site — bath structure, not a tattoo policy (the inn’s own guest room page)

Read on: kashogyoen.jp/room/

Best for: A different spring from the rest of the valley, taken alone with the forest in the window

Rooms are 53 or 58 sq m with a separate living room and bedroom; one universal-design room, three with balconies and four connecting rooms. Inside Shikotsu-Toya National Park on roughly 3,000 tsubo of grounds. The spring is bicarbonate rather than the sodium chloride water of Jozankei proper.

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