Takinoya Bekkan Tamanoyu

Takinoya's small, affordable annex on Noboribetsu's main street: milky free-flowing sulphur water, warm service and a careful multi-course dinner — but the baths are tiny, almost no rooms have a bath, and the building shows its age

Tamanoyu is the annex of Takinoya, one of Noboribetsu's long-established upmarket inns, and bloggers recommend it as a way to get a taste of that house for far less: the same incense in the lobby, Takinoya rice crackers as the welcome sweet in 2022, and simmered tofu at breakfast. It is a separate, 24-room inn in the middle of the onsen street, three minutes' walk from the bus terminal, with its own baths of milky, sulphur-scented spring water — a small indoor bath and outdoor tub for each sex, plus a bookable family bath with its own outdoor tub, all free-flowing (with some water added, according to one booking site). Japanese guests rate it 4.6 across 1,614 reviews on one major site (service 4.7) and 4.50 across 585 on another. Three bloggers who stayed between 2022 and 2025, and dozens of 2026 reviewers, praise warm, attentive staff, spotless floors and a long dinner in the screened-off Hatsune dining room: a tomato seafood hotpot, a choice of charcoal-grilled Noboribetsu pork, Rishiri hokke or chicken skewers, then soft-serve and nama chocolate. The catch is the building and its scale. The baths are small (nearly every reviewer says so), only three rooms have a bathroom, twin rooms look onto a wall, futons are thin, and the building is old. In 2026 guests also reported broken air conditioning in August, dishes laid out before they sat down, lean hokke, thawed sashimi and a grilled course that came late and undercooked. Two-meal stays for two start at about ¥35,200 on one booking site; most 2026 reviewers paid ¥17,000–21,000 per person.