Suigan

Suigan opened in June 2023 beside Maizuru-no-Toro (舞鶴の瀞), the deep pool where the Toyohira and Shirai rivers meet, in a corner of Jozankei Onsen inside the national park, an hour by car from Sapporo. It is the Daiichi Hoteiru group’s tenth inn. The main house holds seven suites, 76 to 126 sq m; the largest a maisonette with a theatre space and a projector over 130 inches. An annex, 松直棘曲 (a Zen phrase: the pine grows straight, the thorn crooked), added seven rooms and a restaurant in October 2025.

There is no communal bath; the inn says so plainly. Every room has its own. In the main house, three have open-air baths with a shallow reclining bath (寝湯), two of those with a private sauna; the other four have indoor view baths over the gorge. The water is a sodium chloride spring blended from three sources the group owns on the Toyohira riverbed, averaging about 69°C. Main-house guests may also use the bathhouses at the group’s other Jozankei inns at no charge.

Staff do not enter the rooms. Dinner is either brought to a dedicated door on the room — a shabu-shabu set you finish and clear away yourself — or eaten at the annex restaurant a minute away, a French-based, genre-less course of about two hours with no dress code.

Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00, neither extended. Elementary-school age and up. No lift, and steps throughout. The free shuttle from Odori in central Sapporo must be booked by 20:00 the day before.