Photo by Adam63, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
🇯🇵 Japan · Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture
Photo by Adam63, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
🇯🇵 Japan · Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture
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📅 Established
1866
✓ Verified on 2026-07-28
Jozankei Onsen sits in a gorge of the Toyohira River inside Shikotsu-Toya National Park, about an hour from central Sapporo. It was discovered in 1866 by the ascetic monk Miizumi Jozan, who opened a healing spa that gave the town its name. The area draws on 56 individual hot spring sources with sodium chloride (salt) waters that emerge at 60-80°C. Today it is one of Hokkaido's largest hot spring resorts, drawing around 1.4 to 2.4 million visitors a year to its roughly 20 ryokan.
The onsen is named after Miizumi Jozan, a Buddhist ascetic who discovered the springs in 1866 and established the area's first spa for healing purposes. It has since grown into one of Hokkaido's three major hot spring resorts.
Websitejozankei.jp/en/
AddressJozankei Onsen, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 061-2301, Japan