Hotel Hakodate Hiromeso

About 40 minutes by car from Hakodate Airport. Ofuna Onsen Kami no Yu. I used it for a quick bath. The open-air bath has a milky sulfur spring, and it's a nice hot spring with clear sulfur spring water. The indoor bath is a free-flowing sodium bicarbonate spring. This is also good. There is also a large rest area. The bathing fee is 490 yen.

I learned about this place through a Mapple book, and decided to go because the hot springs looked good, they serve seafood, and there was a shuttle service. It takes more than an hour to get from the inn to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, but even though it was the busy end of the year period, they came to pick me up an hour before, which I appreciated. The inside of the inn has the feel of a public inn, but I thought it was amazing that they had so many things in this area, such as a convenience store, a game center, a coin laundry, a snack corner, massage machines, and Wi-Fi. The hospitality was also polite and good. And the hot springs at both locations were excellent and impeccable! For dinner, they served twice as much sashimi as you would at a normal inn, and they were kind enough to make rice balls from a pot for dinner because I would probably be full. For breakfast, I had squid sashimi. I was really grateful that all of this was less than 15,000 yen a night. What people need for a trip may be different, but it's a quiet environment, uncrowded baths and restaurants, an environment with the bare necessities, a great hot spring, and the convenience of an hour's shuttle from the Shinkansen station... it's a place you don't often find. It's no wonder there are so many repeat customers.