Horoshin Onsen Hotarukan

♨️Sulfur springs and hokutolite bedrock bath beside a firefly village

Hokkaido · Horoshin Onsen Hotarukan

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An onsen inn wrapped in river and forest

• 🌲Set in the Horoshin Onsen hot spring area, deep in the forest about 15 km from central Numata.
• 🏨Two wings: the two-story Heike-no-Yado (baths, rooms, canteen) and the seven-story Genji-no-Yado (restaurant, shop, banquet halls, rooms).
• ✨It sits right beside the Hotaru-no-Sato firefly village, where summer nights are quiet and the stars feel close.

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Horoshin's hot spring

• ♨️A gently sulfur-scented simple sulfur cold mineral spring (8.6℃ at source), first developed about 60 years ago from water once called a 'miracle water'.
• 🏞️The open-air bath of the Hotaru-no-Yu main bath looks down on the Horoshin Tachibetsu River, with the Shokan mountain range beyond the big windows.
• 🕕Bathing hours are 6:00–24:00 (changing rooms cleaned 9:00–10:00); listed benefits include neuralgia, muscle pain and poor circulation.

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Sauna and hokutolite bedrock bath

• 🧖A low-temperature, humid sauna (10:00–22:00) paired with a cold plunge of untreated 10–13℃ spring water.
• 🪨The Kenkoden mist-style radium bedrock bath lets you breathe mineral mist passed through rare hokutolite stone.
• 🎟️Free for overnight guests; open 11:00–20:00, up to 7 people at a time (7 beds), about 50 minutes per session.

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Japanese and Western-style rooms

• 🛏️Room types range from Western twins with a small raised tatami area to Japanese-Western rooms for six.
• 📶Every room has Wi-Fi and a humidifying air purifier, plus a fridge with free mineral water and a free safe.
• 🚭All rooms are non-smoking; smoking areas are on Genji-no-Yado 2F and Heike-no-Yado 1F.

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Dinner and breakfast from Numata produce

• 🍚Cooking centers on Numata's snow-stored 'Setchumai' rice and Numata tomatoes.
• 🍲Dinner is a choice of three courses: a Numata handmade soba mini set, all-you-can-eat shabu-shabu, or the chef's Numata kaiseki.
• 🍳Breakfast features Numata tomato rice porridge and Numata curry made with Setchumai; Restaurant Seseragi (80 seats) looks out through floor-to-ceiling glass.

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Lounge free drinks and facilities

• 🍺Overnight guests can help themselves to beer, sake, highballs, wine, soft drinks and more (some plans exclude free drinks).
• 🛍️The Yukihotaru shop sells local specialties, and another shop sells handmade gelato made with Biei Jersey milk.
• 🧺Free Wi-Fi throughout, coin laundry on Heike-no-Yado 1F (2 washers, 2 dryers), and yukata are fine everywhere, including the restaurant.

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Fireflies and things to do in Numata

• ✨About 400 m from the inn, the viewing dome shows Genji fireflies raised since 1991, July–August, 20:00–22:00.
• 🏮The Yotaka Andon Festival, one of Hokkaido's three great lantern festivals, features 'fighting lanterns' 7 m tall and weighing 5 t.
• 🦕Nearby are the Numata Fossil Museum, the firefly learning center and coal mine museum, an auto campground and a gymnasium.

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Access

• 🚗About 2 hours by car from Sapporo and about 45 minutes from Asahikawa via the Do-O Expressway.
• 🌳It lies about 15 km into the forest from central Numata, so a rental car is the easiest way to get here.
• 🚌The free shuttle bus runs only for groups of 20 or more within a 50 km radius (roughly Asahikawa, Rumoi, Fukagawa and Takikawa).

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Sauna and hokutolite bedrock bath

• 🧖A low-temperature, humid sauna (10:00–22:00) paired with a cold plunge of untreated 10–13℃ spring water.
• 🪨The Kenkoden mist-style radium bedrock bath lets you breathe mineral mist passed through rare hokutolite stone.
• 🎟️Free for overnight guests; open 11:00–20:00, up to 7 people at a time (7 beds), about 50 minutes per session.

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Japanese and Western-style rooms

• 🛏️Room types range from Western twins with a small raised tatami area to Japanese-Western rooms for six.
• 📶Every room has Wi-Fi and a humidifying air purifier, plus a fridge with free mineral water and a free safe.
• 🚭All rooms are non-smoking; smoking areas are on Genji-no-Yado 2F and Heike-no-Yado 1F.

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A forest inn next to a firefly village where you can enjoy a sulfur cold spring, sauna and hokutolite bedrock bath, with free-flowing drinks in the evening. It is far from town so a car helps, there is no shuttle for individual guests, Japanese-style rooms have no private bath, and wheat or buckwheat allergies cannot be accommodated.

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* This introduction was compiled from information published by each property (official website and similar sources), so some details may differ from what you find on the day. It is AI-assisted and can contain errors — please check the official website and the details shown at booking before you reserve.

From onsen etiquette to check-in — the things worth knowing first.

What are the check-in and check-out times at Horoshin Onsen Hotarukan?

Check-in starts at 15:00 and check-out is by 10:00.

Where is Horoshin Onsen Hotarukan located?

It is in Uryu-gun. Address: 377 Horoshin, Numatacho.

What is the cancellation and refund policy?

Free-cancellation deadlines vary by rate plan and are shown with each room. Cancelling before the deadline gives a full refund.