Jyozankei Grand Hotel （定山渓グランドホテル）| Room with Hot Spring | Sapporo

We enjoyed hot spring at "Jyozankei Grand Hotel （定山渓グランドホテル）" in Jyozankei （定山渓）, a famous hot spring area, 40 minutes away from downtown Sapporo.

Guess what?
I stayed at a room with private hot spring!! How wonderful it is!!! Look at the room.

The sofa is large enough for me to relax....

Except the Western room, I have a Japanse room, too!! Wow! Wow! Wow!!

I really love the outdoor hot spring! As my room has private hot spring, I can take it whenever I want to. Actually I enjoyed it four times during our stay.
(Just for reference, the hotel has large outdoor and indoor hot spring for all guests, too, and my guests from Indonesia prefer the big ones.)

The water contains a lot of natural salt, making my skin very smooth.....

 Dinner time!!
(The breakfasat buffet is not good, unfortunately.... and I omit to show the pics.... Hahaha!)

We enjoyed a wonderful dinner at a dinning place at the hotel.

They have Japanese tatami rooms and

table area. Which do you prefer???

The restaurant has a drinking bar, and I love it!

Let's get started!

Hokkaido remind my guests of king crabs! Yummy x 2!!

The trout is appropriately fatty and goes well with sake!

We also enjoyed fresh local seafood such as tuna, sea bream, whelk, and Jumbo shrimp （ボタンエビ）.

If you love Japanese set dishes, you must love all of them!

 

 

 After dinner, we enjoyed fireworks display from hotel rooms!!

 

 

Isn't it wonderful to enjoy fireworks while lying down on a sofa at a room?

 

We really had a wonderful time in Jyozankei （定山渓）, Sapporo.

■Where is "Jyozankei Grand Hotel （定山渓グランドホテル）"?

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Hokkai Hotel （北海ホテル）| Hot Spring Inn | Lake Toya

Lake Toya is part of the Shikotsu Toya National Park.

Beside Lake Toya, the region features hot spring and active volcanoes such as Mt. Usu and Mt. Showashinzan.

The area also offers many fishing, hiking, and camping opportunities.
The picturesque lake was chosen as the location of the G8 summit in 2008.

Today I'll show you "Hokkai Hotel", a hot spring inn on the lake shore.

The hotel has typical traditional Japanese rooms↓and western-type rooms. You can enjoy Lake Toya from your room! Perfect Location, isn't it?

I got up at 5:30AM and jogged along the lake. This pic↓was taken from our room. So romantic♪

When I returned to the hotel, the sun was already above the lake↓

I love to take hot spring after exercising!!!

The water here is Gensen Kakenagashi; water comes directly from the hot spring source. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it??
The water contains minerals such as calcium carbonate, iron, and manganese oxide. As this hot spring is very therapeutic, don't rise your body with tap water, after taking natural hot spring. 

This is an indoor bath. They say this is a grand bath, but actually a medium bath. Hahaha! There is a small sauna here, too.

This is an outdoor bath! You can feel this is very natural water because the hot-spring mineral deposits floating in and on the water!

The water is coming up from the 60-150m-deep ground! The temperature of the water is around 40 C, really relaxing, good for your skin and providing health-giving benefits!

But the problem is......................
Can you guess what the problem is?
The answer is the wall around the outdoor bath is very LOW!!!

You can see the walking path from the bath area!!!! When you come stay here, please take hot spring late at night or early in the morning! Hahaha!!

But because of the location, you can enjoy fireworks displays from the bath area very clearly! This hot spring area has long-run fireworks displays every day from April to October every year!!

Anyway, when you come stay at this inn, be careful about the low wall! Hahaha!

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