Jozankei Onsen, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Hoheikyo Onsen
A destination bath for visitors who want expansive outdoor pools and direct-flow spring water without dilution, reheating or circulation. Outdoor-bath allocation switches by date, so check whether the main bath you want is assigned to men or women that day.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 10:00–22:30; last admission 21:45. Adult admission ¥1,300; ages 3 through elementary school ¥600; ages 0–2 free. No accommodation or family bath is offered.
- Tattoo policy
- A formal tattoo policy was not found in the current first-party pages reviewed. Ask the facility before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed temperature published; the waterwheel cools the baths naturally.
- Spring source
- The facility's own underground spring; an individual source name is not published.
- Spring classification
- Sodium-calcium bicarbonate and chloride spring.
- pH
- Described by the operator as neutral; an exact value was not confirmed.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- Fresh source water is supplied directly to the baths without a storage tank, added water, reheating or circulation. The operator says continuous fresh flow means chlorine disinfection is not needed. A waterwheel cools the water naturally. The outdoor baths alternate between men and women on odd and even dates.
How to read a bath profile
Spring-source temperature and actual bathing temperature are kept separate. Each score is shown independently for comparison rather than collapsed into one overall score.
