Tokachigawa Onsen Minami 13, set back from the river road beside its parent hotel Ryokan ★★★★☆

Sanyoan

三余庵

Does Sanyoan allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Eleven rooms, every one of them with the amber moor spring running through it, and a shared bath lined with wine-colored Italian glass that no day visitor is allowed to see.

Sanyoan publishes no tattoo rule of its own, and its sister wings under the same company refuse tattooed bathers in their large baths, so read nothing into the silence here. The answer is structural: the operator says every room has the moor spring piped in, source-fed, two of them with an open-air tub and nine with a cypress tub. The small shared bath Fugetsu, which swaps between men and women overnight, is the part to leave alone.

Where it is

Sapporo STN Obihiro STN change to Tokachi Bus · 25 min JR Tokachi limited express 162 min Hakodate STN Asahikawa STN Kushiro STN Hotel location
Tokachigawa Onsen 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. Sanyoan · 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 room baths from /sanyoan/onsen/); no tattoo rule published by this building, while the same company refuses in the Hosyutei and Toyotei baths

Read on: daiichihotel.com/sanyoan/onsen/

Best for: A couple who want a source-fed cypress tub in the room and a dinner cooked for a house of eleven rooms

Eleven rooms: two with an open-air bath, nine with a cypress bath, all on the moor spring and all source-fed. The shared bath Fugetsu has a cypress bath and a glass-mosaic bath in Italian tile, open 15:00 to 10:00 with the men’s and women’s sides swapped, and the operator states it does not take day-use bathers. Same spring as the parent hotel, sodium chloride and bicarbonate, pH 7.9.

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