Takinoya Bekkan Tamanoyu

Tamanoyu stands about halfway along the Noboribetsu Onsen street, three minutes’ walk from the bus terminal: 24 tatami rooms, twenty-one of ten mats and three of sixteen (a 10-mat and a 6-mat space). Only the three large rooms have a bath of their own; some ten-mat rooms are made up with beds. The building has been non-smoking throughout since April 2021.

The water is a sulphur spring, hydrogen-sulphide type, milky white and faintly of boiled egg. One large bath for men and one for women, each with an open-air tub and a washing floor of black stone, open 14:00–24:00 and 05:00–09:30. The house runs the water free-flowing; its listing data records water being added. A separate family bath (家族風呂) with its own open-air tub, sized for about two, is booked ahead in 50-minute slots at 2,750 yen a room.

Dinner is a kaiseki the kitchen calls the 玉乃湯御膳, the Tamanoyu tray, served in the second-floor dining room Hatsune behind bamboo blinds; charcoal-grilled Noboribetsu whey pork and Rishiri atka mackerel have featured. Breakfast is a Japanese set tray, 07:30–09:00, in the same room.

Check-in from 14:00, check-out 10:00 — but the inn asks to be told if you will arrive after 18:00, will not cook dinner for arrivals after 19:00, and puts its own last check-in at 19:00 on its booking pages and 20:00 elsewhere. There is no shuttle: it states plainly that it does not collect guests from New Chitose Airport. Children are welcome, pets are not.