Jozankei Hanamomiji

Hanamomiji is the annex of Shikanoyu, a long-established inn at Jozankei hot spring. On urara, renovated in 2022, rooms of 60 to 105 sq m each have a hot spring bath running free-flowing, with water added to temper it. On Coconoe, opened in September 2024, the inn says it deliberately left the spring out and fitted a shower booth only.

The water is a sodium chloride spring, 62.3°C and pH 6.4, blended from three sources including Shikanoyu’s own. Fugetsu, on the 12th floor, pairs indoor tubs with an open-air bath; Momijiyu, on the 2nd, has a garden-style open-air bath and swaps between women and men. A fourth-floor corridor leads to the Shikanoyu bathhouse next door, with a sauna and cold plunge. Three private baths — one on the 12th floor that opens out, one Shigaraki ceramic, one hinoki cypress — take 60-minute bookings at 2,200 yen, ahead or on the day, and are free to Coconoe guests.

Dinner is a kaiseki (会席) multi-course menu served in third-floor dining rooms; urara guests take the premier “Hatsune” course at eight semi-private tables. Breakfast is a buffet of about 50 Japanese and Western dishes.

Check-in is 15:00, last arrival 19:00; check-out 10:00. A free shuttle runs from JR Sapporo Station at 15:00 and back at 10:00, by reservation. Its own site says guests with tattoos are not admitted to the baths, while a listing it maintains says only uncovered ones are refused, with cover patches sold at reception.