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

Hotel Mahoroba

ホテルまほろば

Does Hotel Mahoroba allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Thirty-one tubs across two basement floors, drawing four different springs, is what Mahoroba sells; the quieter fact is the half-dozen suites upstairs with a marble tub of sulfur water on the balcony.

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.

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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

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

Where it is

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. Hotel Mahoroba · 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 suite page, h-mahoroba.jp/rooms/suite/)

Read on: h-mahoroba.jp/rooms/suite/

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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