Moere natural hot spring Tamayura Mori

Tamayura no Mori is a large, round-the-clock bathing complex in Sapporo's Higashi Ward, next to Moerenuma Park, with around ten kinds of baths and saunas rather than one big pool. Natural hot spring water fills both the indoor tubs and the open-air baths, among them a cypress tub and a rock-lined pool; inside, the lineup runs to an electric bath, a jet-fitted reclining bath, and a cold plunge. There are two saunas, a high-heat infrared room and a salt steam sauna for women, plus four ganbanyoku (岩盤浴) stone-floor rooms, each themed on one of the four seasons. It has the feel of a neighborhood sento built up to a much bigger scale: a restaurant, a rest area with reclining chairs for napping, and parking for 250 cars. Kids are welcome and there is a dedicated children's bath, though the ganbanyoku rooms are limited to elementary-school age and up.