Noboribetsu Onsenkyo Takinoya

Takinoya sits off the Noboribetsu resort street, reached over the Kusurisanbetsu River by a footbridge the inn built for its own guests. Thirty rooms in seven types face a Japanese garden. Twelve — ten 83 sq m Japanese-Western rooms and two 92 sq m suites — have a private open-air bath fed straight from the source. The house is blunt about the rest: its own booking pages state that in those types the in-room bath is not hot spring water.

There are two bathing floors, each on a different water. The top-floor open-air bath 雲井の湯 (Kumoi-no-yu) takes the salt and iron springs, 14:00–22:00 and 5:00–9:00; the basement bathhouse 地縁の湯 (Chien-no-yu), with its own open-air bath, takes the radium and sulphur springs, 15:00–24:00 and 5:00–10:00. Four springs in all, from the Jigokudani source, cloudy white; the Japan Spa Association’s register puts the source at 72.5°C. The rooftop bath may be heated and recirculated in some weather. No bath can be booked for private use.

The kitchen descends from the founding family’s 料亭 — a traditional banqueting restaurant — and cooks 懐石 (kaiseki), a fixed run of seasonal courses. Dining is always private: the 「原生林」 (Genseirin) rooms are individually partitioned, breakfast 7:30–9:00 and dinner 17:30–19:00, while the twelve open-air-bath rooms are served in the room.

Check-in 14:00–18:30, check-out 11:00; arrive after 19:00 and dinner cannot be prepared. Children stay, pets do not. Bathing tax is 300 yen per person, plus a Hokkaido accommodation tax of 100 to 500 yen from April 2026.