Hokkaido · 1 h 45 from Sapporo · Onsen town

Tattoo friendly onsen in Noboribetsu

Nine kinds of spring water come out of one valley here, and the town has built the biggest bath houses in Hokkaido on top of them. What it has not built is an answer: the public bathhouse and one large hotel refuse tattoos in writing, and every other operator has never addressed it at all. So this page is the rooms with a bath of their own, and the one family bath in town you can rent without staying the night.

8 properties

Private baths only

Tattoos are fine in a private or in-room bath. The communal baths are restricted, or the policy is unconfirmed. What this means

Noboribetsu Onsen, on the lower bend of the main street Large onsen hotel with a reservable family bath Confirmed

Noboribetsu Grand Hotel

登別グランドホテル

There is no tattoo rule anywhere on this hotel’s site, so the shared domed bath is an unknown and is treated here as closed. What the hotel does publish is a single hot-spring family bath, booked by the hour, and it sells that bath to day visitors as well as to guests. Seven guest rooms also have their own open-air tub, though the hotel is careful to say that water is not the Noboribetsu spring.

温泉家族⾵呂がございます。泉質は⾷塩泉です。利⽤時間50分間で3,000円（税別）です。（中略）2025年4⽉1⽇からは、50分／4,400円（税込）となります。家族⾵呂は1箇所しかございません。事前のご予約をおすすめ致します。

Best for: Booking a private hot-spring bath by the hour without staying the night

One family bath only, food-salt spring, 50 minutes for 4,400 yen including tax since 1 April 2025, and the hotel says to reserve ahead because there is nothing else to fall back on. Day visitors may use it, but the day-use admission (2,000 yen adults, 1,000 yen children) is charged on top. Day-use bathing runs 12:30–20:00 with last entry at 19:00, plus a 07:00–10:00 morning slot, and starts at 14:30 on Mondays and Thursdays. Of the seven rooms with an open-air tub, five are Western and two Japanese, and the hotel states: “※露天風呂付客室のお風呂は天然温泉ではございません。ラジウム鉱泉を利用した人工温泉です”

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Noboribetsu Onsen, mid-street on the valley side Large onsen hotel with suites that have their own open-air bath Confirmed

Hotel Mahoroba

ホテルまほろば

Mahoroba’s thirty-one tubs are the largest bath complex in the town and the hotel publishes no rule about who may get into them, so the answer here is the suite floor instead. Six suite types, all 64 square meters, each carry a marble open-air tub fed with the sulfur spring, and the hotel describes them as 源泉露天風呂付客室 without any condition attached. Book one of those and the shared halls become optional.

SUITE ROOMS 源泉露天風呂付客室 ... 客室設備大理石露天風呂（硫黄泉）/シャワーブース/独立トイレ

Best for: A marble open-air tub of sulfur water on your own balcony, in the hotel with the town’s biggest shared bath

The six suites are named for trees: 槐 Enjyu (4 rooms), 櫟 Kunugi (4), 槿 Mukuge (1), 楓 Kaede (1), 楡 Nire (4) and 楢 Nara. All are non-smoking and 64 square meters. The main bath runs 14:00–03:00 and 04:00–09:30, with the 03:00–04:00 hour closed for cleaning and the men’s and women’s sides swapped. The hotel has 398 rooms in total, so the suite floor is a small part of a very large building. Mahoroba belongs to the Toho Resort group along with Park Hotel Miyabitei and Ryotei Hanayura in the same town.

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Noboribetsu Onsen, at the top of the valley past Sekisuitei All-suite onsen hotel, every room with its own hot-spring bath Confirmed

Bourou NOGUCHI Noboribetsu

望楼NOGUCHI登別

Every room here has a hot-spring bath, which the hotel states in its own FAQ in one line, so the question of the shared bath never has to come up. No tattoo rule is published for the communal baths and none is needed for a stay. The house takes no one under thirteen, so this is a couples-and-adults answer rather than a family one.

お部屋にお風呂はありますか？全客室に温泉展望風呂を備えております。

Best for: A suite where the hot-spring tub looks out over the valley and nobody else ever uses it

All suites are 50 square meters or more, in a twin layout for two or a Japanese-Western layout for four. The FAQ says guests aged 12 and under are not accepted: “１２歳以下のお子様（乳児・幼児を含む）のご宿泊はご遠慮いただいております。” Booking.com carries the property as Adult Only for the same reason. The shared bath runs from check-in at 14:00 to 10:00 the next morning with no men’s and women’s swap. The spring is a sulfur spring of the hydrogen-sulfide type. Free shuttle buses run daily from Sapporo Station and New Chitose Airport, reserved through the hotel.

Bourou NOGUCHI Noboribetsu tattoo policy → Check availability

Noboribetsu Onsen, at the lower end of the street near Sagiriyu Onsen ryokan with in-room hot-spring baths and a private sauna suite Confirmed

Hotel Yumoto Noboribetsu

ホテルゆもと登別

Yumoto says nothing about tattoos, and its four springs all run into shared halls, so the way in here is the special rooms. The house calls them the first guest rooms in the Noboribetsu district with hot-spring water plumbed into the room and a self-loyly sauna beside it. Dinner is served in the room as standard, which means a tattooed guest can arrive, bathe, eat and sleep without crossing the shared bath at all.

登別温泉地区初となる「客室天然温泉」と「セルフロウリュ対応サウナ」を完備した特別室をご用意いたしました。

Best for: A guest room with both the hot spring and a sauna you pour the water on yourself

Four spring types in the house: sulfur, food-salt, acid iron and a blended source, all served free-flowing, with the sauna block rebuilt in 2023. In-room dining is the default: “夕食は家族やグループで気兼ねなく楽しめる「お部屋食」を基本としています。” Day bathing runs 13:00–20:00 with last entry at 19:00, 1,400 yen for adults and 700 for children. The hotel is part of Granvista Hotels & Resorts, whose group site publishes no tattoo rule either.

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Noboribetsu Onsen, on the upper street opposite Park Hotel Miyabitei Small ryokan, most rooms with their own open-air bath Confirmed

Ryotei Hanayura

旅亭花ゆら

Hanayura is a 37-room house and 27 of those rooms come with an open-air bath attached, which is the reason it is here. The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths, so those stay an unknown. The room type has to be chosen deliberately: ten plain Japanese rooms have no bath of their own.

露天風呂付特別和室 … 部屋数 1室／露天風呂付和洋室 … 部屋数 3室／露天風呂付和室 … 部屋数 23室／一般和室 … 部屋数 10室

Best for: The cheapest way into a room with a private open-air bath in central Noboribetsu

The special Japanese room is 82 square meters, the three Japanese-Western rooms 74 to 96, and the 23 standard rooms with an open-air bath 54. Only the ten 48-square-meter 一般和室 lack one. The shared baths run 14:00 to 09:30 the next morning and draw sulfur, simple sulfur, the local Kodakara spring and an acid iron spring. Hanayura belongs to the Toho Resort group with Hotel Mahoroba and Park Hotel Miyabitei. The inn’s site is served over plain HTTP and its certificate does not validate, so a browser may warn before it loads.

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Noboribetsu Onsen, up the valley on the road toward Karurusu Large onsen hotel with five reservable baths Confirmed

Noboribetsu Sekisuitei

登別石水亭

Five reservable hot-spring baths in the basement of the Sakura wing, booked by the hour, are the answer at Sekisuitei. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its two big bath floors, so those are left alone here. It does publish a detailed bathing-garment provision, but that provision is written for surgical scars and the hotel does not extend it to tattoos.

貸切風呂はありますか？桜館地下1階の癒し処「なごみ」にて全5室、ご用意しております。ご利用時間は15時から23時で、1時間刻みでご案内しております。

Best for: Five private baths in one building, so a booking is realistic even on a full night

3,300 yen including tax per room for a 50-minute turn, 15:00 to 23:00, and the same floor has a reservable ganban-yoku room. Day-use bathing is 1,200 yen for adults and 600 for children, 05:00–09:00 and 11:00–19:00, and the hotel sells a day-use season pass at 11,260 yen a month. The bathing-garment page is explicit that the garment is for people with scars from breast cancer surgery, tumors or skin grafts, and that guests must bring their own. The spring is the Oku-no-yu source, 60.9°C at pH 5.4. Sekisuitei is a Noguchi Kanko property, like Bourou NOGUCHI up the same road. Reservations run through the Noguchi Kanko central number rather than a hotel line; the number printed in the site footer is the fax.

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Noboribetsu Onsen, above the street on the slope east of the Jigokudani path Small luxury ryokan, nearly every room with a bath of its own Confirmed

Noboribetsu Onsenkyo Takinoya

登別温泉郷滝乃家

Takinoya has thirty rooms and twenty-seven of them come with a bath: twelve with a free-flowing open-air tub, fifteen with an indoor one. Nothing about tattoos appears anywhere on the inn’s site, so the two shared bath floors are not something this page can vouch for. The room is the answer, and at this house it is the usual room rather than the exception.

源泉かけ流し露天風呂付和室 DW Type （全2室）… 源泉かけ流し露天風呂付和洋室 D Type （全10室）

Best for: A free-flowing open-air tub on a private wooden deck, in a house small enough to notice you

Two DW-type Japanese rooms of 92 square meters and ten D-type Japanese-Western rooms carry the open-air bath; two CW, one CY, six AW and six AY rooms carry an indoor bath; three B-type Western rooms have none. The inn draws four springs, sulfur, iron, salt and radium, into a top-floor bath called Kumoi-no-yu (14:00–22:00 and 05:00–09:00) and a basement garden bath called Jien-no-yu (15:00–24:00 and 05:00–10:00). Takinoya runs Tamanoyu down the hill as its annex. Its access page was offline for maintenance on 16 September 2026 and OpenStreetMap has no entry for the building, so no coordinate is recorded here.

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Noboribetsu Onsen, on the main street below its parent inn Small ryokan with a family bath Confirmed

Takinoya Bekkan Tamanoyu

滝乃家別館玉乃湯

Tamanoyu is a 24-room inn with one family bath, an indoor tub with an open-air section attached, and the inn describes it as a bath for families and couples on their own. That is the whole answer here: no tattoo rule is published for the shared bath, and the guest rooms have ordinary unit baths rather than hot-spring ones. The family bath stays open until nearly midnight, which makes a late private soak realistic.

家族風呂露天風呂付き … 御家族や御夫婦だけでの会話を楽しみながら、プライベートな時間をお過ごしください。ご利用時間 14:00～23:50まで

Best for: A family bath you can still get into at eleven at night

Twenty-four rooms, of which three have a bath and toilet and twenty-one a toilet only, in ten-mat and sixteen-mat Japanese layouts. The shared bath, which has its own open-air section, runs 14:00–24:00 and 05:00–09:30. The spring is the cloudy white sulfur water, and the building is entirely non-smoking. Tamanoyu is the annex of Takinoya. Check-in closes at 20:00, which is early for the town.

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Traveler’s note

The house everybody asks about is Dai-ichi Takimotokan, the landmark bath at the head of the valley, and it is the reason this page reads the way it does. Every page of its own site, in Japanese and in English, was read looking for a tattoo rule, and there is none. Its own FAQ also says it has no family bath and no bath for hire. English articles have called it tattoo-friendly for years on nobody’s authority, and until the operator writes something down, that is all it is.

Getting there

Tickets for the ride in

JR Hokkaido Rail Pass Five, seven or ten days of unlimited JR trains on the island, which covers the Suzuran limited express down from Sapporo. The Donan bus that climbs the last six kilometers to the onsen is a separate 450 yen, in cash on the bus.
JR East-South Hokkaido Rail Pass The one to compare if you are arriving from Tokyo rather than starting in Sapporo: six days across JR East and southern Hokkaido, including the Shinkansen north through the Seikan tunnel.

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Common questions

Noboribetsu questions

Can I bathe in Noboribetsu with a tattoo?

In a bath of your own, yes, and that is what this page lists. In the big shared baths the honest answer is that nobody will tell you in advance. The town’s own bathhouse refuses tattooed bathers and says so plainly, one large hotel does the same across its bath, sauna and day-use pages, and the rest of the town publishes nothing either way.

Is Dai-ichi Takimotokan tattoo friendly?

The operator has never said. Its site runs to more than a hundred pages in two languages and none of them mentions tattoos, irezumi or cover seals, and the same site states it has no family bath or private bath to fall back on. Anything you read elsewhere claiming a policy is quoting nobody.

What can I book instead?

Rooms with their own hot spring bath, at seven houses on this page, which range from a cliff-edge open-air tub to a room with its own sauna. One hotel also rents a family bath by the fifty minutes to visitors who are not staying, on top of its day admission.

How do I get there from Sapporo?

About an hour and forty-five minutes. The Suzuran, JR’s limited express toward Muroran, runs to Noboribetsu station in 78 minutes, and a Donan bus climbs the last six kilometers to the onsen terminal in about 20. The town itself is one street, so once you are up there everything is a walk.

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