Shogetsu Grand Hotel

Shogetsu Grand Hotel, founded in 1934, stands above the Toyohira River gorge at Jozankei, and all 50 of its rooms face the valley. They run from 32 sq m twins on the bath floor to a 67 sq m family room for four. Only the Premium Room and the single suite, room 801, at about 100 sq m, have a hot spring bath in the room; the inn states plainly that the King-Bed Room’s view bath is not hot spring water.

The water is a sodium chloride spring (ナトリウム-塩化物泉), free-flowing from the source by the house’s account, with water added because it arrives at about 75°C. Two bathhouses, each with an indoor and an open-air bath, swap between men and women early each morning so guests can use both; bathing runs 13:00–03:00 and 04:00–10:00. A dry sauna sits beside a steam bath, 湯の霧 (spring mist), fed by steam off the 75°C source. Two reservable private baths — 山渓の湯 (mountain-gorge bath), facing the river, and 瞑想の湯 (meditation bath), under a domed roof — run 16:00–23:00 in 50-minute slots, last booking 22:00, reserved ahead or at the front desk.

Dinner is a Japanese kaiseki (和食会席), breakfast a tray-served set with a small buffet, both in the fifth- and sixth-floor dining rooms; the sixth-floor lounge lays out a honey buffet from 16:00.

Check-in is 15:00, check-out 11:00. A chargeable, reservation-only shuttle leaves JR Sapporo Station at 14:00 and the hotel at 10:30. Children are accepted at reduced rates; pets are not.