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

Ryotei Hanayura

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Does Ryotei Hanayura allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Twenty-seven of the thirty-seven rooms at Hanayura open onto a private tub of hot spring, which in a town of thousand-room hotels makes this the quiet option.

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.

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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

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. Ryotei Hanayura · 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 room-type table on the inn’s own お部屋 page)

Read on: hanayura.com/rooms/

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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