Grand Blissen Hotel Jozankei

Grand Blissen Hotel Jozankei opened in July 2021 in Jozankei, the hot spring village 50 minutes by car from central Sapporo. All 68 rooms sit on the gorge side of the building, behind wall-width windows, and 58 of them have a 温泉展望風呂 — a hot spring bath of their own, placed at the window. Twins are 42 sq m, luxury and Japanese-Western rooms 50 sq m, and a wheelchair-accessible universal room 53 sq m; the 25 sq m standard twins have a shower booth instead. Every room is non-smoking.

The water is the hotel’s own 宝恵の泉 (Hōkei no Izumi), a source the founder spent three years locating and tapped in 1954. It is a sodium chloride spring, neutral and hypotonic. The basement bathhouse, 湯溜まり (Yudamari, “the pool of hot water”), sets an indoor bath against an open-air one facing the valley; it opens 05:00–10:00 and 12:00–24:00. Two saunas, dry with self-löyly and mist, plus あかすり (akasuri) body scrubs by prior booking. The baths are filtered and recirculated, not free-flowing.

Dinner runs seven courses in four parts: Japanese, Chinese, Tokachi herb beef prime rib roasted in-house and carved beside the table, then dessert. Seatings are 17:30 or 19:00; breakfast is a Japanese set meal with a buffet, 07:00–09:00.

The ground floor holds a library open around the clock, a gold-leaf tea room, and artwork carried over from the Jozankei Grand, the hotel that stood here before. Check-in 14:00, check-out 11:00. Children of any age are accepted; pets are not.