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

Hotel Yumoto Noboribetsu

ホテルゆもと登別

Does Hotel Yumoto Noboribetsu allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Four spring types in one building, and a pair of special rooms that pipe the hot spring indoors and stand a self-loyly sauna next to it, which the house says no other address in Noboribetsu had done before.

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.

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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。

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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 Yumoto Noboribetsu · 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 私的空間寛ぎの客室 section of the hotel’s own single-page site)

Read on: yumoto-noboribetu.com

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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