Toyako Onsen, the Sobetsu end of the lakeside strip Ryokan where every room has its own onsen bath

The Lake Suite Ko no Sumika

ザ・レイクスイート 湖の栖

Does The Lake Suite Ko no Sumika allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The bathtub is on the terrace, the terrace hangs over Lake Toya, and all eighty rooms are built that way, so the question of who else is in the water never arises.

Every one of the eighty rooms has an onsen tub on its own terrace facing the lake, which is the whole reason to book here and the reason a tattoo does not come into it. The house publishes no rule for its eighth-floor big bath, and this site will not read that silence as a yes. There is no day-use admission, so the room bath is the only bath a visitor needs to plan around.

Where it is

Sapporo STN Toya STN change to Donan bus · 24 min JR Hokuto limited express 113 min Hakodate STN Tomakomai STN New Chitose Airport Hotel location
Toyako Onsen terminal STN
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. The Lake Suite Ko no Sumika · 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 (all four room types on the ryokan’s own 客室 page list 温泉露天風呂; nothing about tattoos anywhere on the site)

Read on: konosumika.com/rooms

Best for: A tub on your own terrace at the water’s edge, with no shared bath to negotiate

Four room types, 50 to 61 m², all lake view, all with a 温泉露天風呂 on the terrace; ground-floor rooms get a garden terrace instead of a raised one. The big bath and sauna run 15:00–25:00 and 5:00–11:00, and the ryokan states plainly that it runs no day-use bathing. Worth knowing before you plan on the big bath: Toya Sun Palace, the sister hotel under the same company next door, publishes a flat refusal for its own baths, and Ko no Sumika publishes nothing either way.

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