Executive Suite Suirei

Suirei is a hotel within a hotel: 33 rooms opened in December 2024 across the 15th and 16th floors of Jozankei View Hotel, a large resort in Jozankei Onsen about 50 minutes by road from Sapporo. Its guests have their own reception desk off the main lobby and a 16th-floor lounge to themselves, 08:00 to 22:00, with free drinks including alcohol. The baths, pool and shops are the host hotel’s.

Rooms run from a 30 sq m twin to a 100 sq m Royal Suite, those on the 16th floor with a bath at the window. All are non-smoking, and the hotel says plainly that the in-room baths are not hot spring water.

The hot spring runs to two bath houses, which day visitors also use: Yusuikyo in the basement, and Seiten 60 m up on the 16th floor of the new wing, whose rooftop open-air bath alternates between men and women. The spring is sodium chloride water given as 64.3°C; it is not free-flowing but diluted, heated and recirculated. No bath can be reserved privately, and tattoos are refused in the baths and pool.

Dinner is a Japanese kaiseki (和会席) with meat and fish mains, or what the house calls French kaiseki (フレンチ懐石), French cooking as a chopstick course, served in Urarako’s semi-private rooms on the third floor, 18:00 to 20:00. Buffet plans eat in the host hotel’s hall. Check-in 14:00, last arrival 20:00; check-out 10:00. A free shuttle from Sapporo Station’s north exit must be booked by phone.