Nishi 1-jo Minami 11, straight out the north exit of Obihiro Station Hotel ★★★☆☆

Obihiro Natural Hot Spring Fukui Hotel

帯広天然温泉 ふく井ホテル

Does Obihiro Natural Hot Spring Fukui Hotel allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The only source-fed spring at Obihiro Station comes out of the hotel’s own well at 45 degrees and is piped, unheated and undiluted, into the bathrooms of two rooms on the premier floor.

Fukui Hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its shared bath, so that bath stays unanswered. What it does publish is two room types, Onsen Premier Double and Onsen Premier Twin, whose bathroom is filled with the hotel’s own moor spring at full strength, free-flowing and unheated, for the whole stay. Book one of those and you never have to ask anyone.

Where it is

Sapporo STN Tokachi, JR’s limited express 2 h 42 Hakodate STN Asahikawa STN Kushiro STN Hotel location
Obihiro STN
Sapporo is the door to all of these. Asahikawa is 1 h 25 on the Kamui limited express, Obihiro 2 h 42 on the Tokachi and Kushiro 4 h 04 on the Ozora; buses carry on from there to Sounkyo, Asahidake, Tokachigawa, Lake Akan and Utoro. Closer in, Noboribetsu is about 1 h 45, Jozankei 56 minutes by coach, Toyako Onsen 2 h 20 and Niseko about 3 h 25. Obihiro Natural Hot Spring Fukui Hotel · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Hokkaido Rail Pass Five, seven or ten days of unlimited JR trains on the island, which covers the Tokachi and Ozora limited expresses from Sapporo to Obihiro. The Tokachi Bus out to Tokachigawa Onsen, 25 minutes, is paid separately. Sold on Klook.

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 two onsen room types from /room/; the well and the water from /spa/)

Read on: fukuihotel.co.jp/room/

Best for: A four-minute walk from Obihiro Station to a room with undiluted moor spring running into your own tub

The two onsen rooms are 28 m², a 160 cm double or two 120 cm beds. The hotel draws its own well and says the water is 100 percent source, unheated, free-flowing, alkaline simple spring at 45°C at the wellhead. The shared bath is small, 18 men and 10 women at a time, open 15:00 to 10:00 the next morning with towels stocked in the changing room and a hot Finnish sauna. 101 rooms in ten types, including tatami rooms. Parking 700 yen a night.

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