Jozankei, riverside on the west bank below Suizantei Ryokan

Kuriya Suizan

厨翠山

Does Kuriya Suizan allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The name means the kitchen, and the inn is built around its food, but five of its six room types also carry their own hot spring bath, one of them a 115 sq m room with a hinoki tub open to the air.

Five of the six room types here come with their own bath, from a 62 sq m room with an open-air tub up to a 115 sq m room with a hinoki open-air bath; only the plain 36 sq m Japanese room has none. Guests can also book Morino-yu, the group’s detached private bath house, for 4,400 yen an hour, or the reservable sauna. No tattoo rule is published for the shared river baths.

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. Kuriya Suizan · 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 room and onsen pages)

Read on: kuriyasuizan.com/room/

Best for: A cooking-led inn where the private bath house can be booked by the hour

Book the 62 sq m open-air-bath room or larger; the 36 sq m Japanese room has no bath of its own. The inn takes guests aged 13 and over. It also gives guests free entry to Kyujitsu-yu in the Kyujitsu Building, but that bath house refuses admission to anyone with a tattoo, seals and paint included, so it is not a way in.

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