JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNASQ&A
Which hotels and hot spring inns in Hokkaido have good saunas?
Sapporo, Jozankei, Obihiro, Hakodate and Noboribetsu have hotels and hot spring inns with new saunas. Many cold baths use groundwater or river water, which is typical of Hokkaido.
Dansetsu Sapporo (baths and sauna) →
A stove enclosed in peridotite
The sauna room at Dansetsu Sapporo is a Finnish-style sauna at about 80 °C, with auto löyly.
The stove is enclosed in peridotite from Hidaka, Hokkaido.
Jozankei Manseikaku Hotel Milione (sauna) →
A cold bath of Jozankei groundwater
The sauna in the large bath at Jozankei Manseikaku Hotel Milione is 90–95 °C.
The cold bath uses Jozankei groundwater, at 13–14 °C and 1.1 m deep.
Hokkaido Hotel (moor hot spring and sauna) →
Water from the Satsunai River
Hokkaido Hotel renovated its men's sauna room in May 2021 and its women's in March 2024.
The cold bath uses underground water from the Satsunai River.
Yunokawa Onsen Hanabishi Hotel (löyly sauna) →
The first auto löyly in Yunokawa Onsen
The sauna at Hanabishi Hotel is around 92 °C, with a ZIEL stove.
From the rest space you look at the garden and feel the sea breeze.
Noboribetsu Manseikaku (sauna) →
A MISA stove
The sauna at Noboribetsu Manseikaku was completed in April 2021. It has a stove by MISA of Finland, and you can do self-löyly.
There are two cold baths: river water and spring water.
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