Jozankei, at the quiet upper end of the valley past the Shoten shop-inn Ryokan

Suizantei Club Jozankei

翠山亭倶楽部定山渓

Does Suizantei Club Jozankei allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Seven rooms above the top of the Jozankei strip, each with a hot spring bath whose tub carries a valve onto the source, so the water arrives unheated and undiluted at whatever hour you want it.

Seven rooms, and the inn says all seven have hot spring water in them. The tub has a valve straight off the source, so it fills with water that has been neither heated nor diluted. No tattoo rule is published for the shared marble and soft-stone baths, and nothing here should be read as permission to use them.

Show this at the front desk

全ての客室で温泉をお楽しみいただけます。

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. Suizantei Club Jozankei · 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 states every room has onsen)

Read on: club-jyozankei.com/guestroom/

Best for: Filling your own tub from a source valve whenever the mood takes you

Room types range from a 56 sq m room with a hinoki indoor bath to a 110 sq m suite with a hot spring bath and a private sauna. Four floors, each named for a season, rooms named for Japanese sweets. Guests can also use the large baths at the other Daiichi Hotel houses in town under the group’s Premium Access scheme, and those baths publish no tattoo rule either.

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