Jozankei, set back from the strip on the west bank Ryokan

Suigan

翠巌

Does Suigan allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

An inn built on the argument that a large bath gets in the way: seven suites, seven different hot springs in wood and stone, and no communal bath anywhere on the property.

Suigan has removed the question from its building. The inn states plainly that there is no large bath here at all — “ここには、大浴場はございません” — and that every one of its seven suites has been given its own hot spring, each built differently in wood or stone. There is no shared water to be turned away from.

Show this at the front desk

ここには、大浴場はございません。 あるのは、ひとつひとつ違う、あなただけの湯。

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. Suigan · 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 onsen page; no shared bath exists)

Read on: suigan1.com/honkan/onsen/

Best for: A stay with no communal bath in the building to negotiate at all

Seven suites in the main house, each with a different bath; a separate annex, Matsunao Ibarimagari, is run alongside it. Guests can also use the large baths at other Daiichi Hotel houses through the group’s Premium Access scheme, and those baths publish no tattoo rule, so the room bath is the part you can count on.

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