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Hakodate hotels by the station and the onsen: 5 picked from 289
Approximate, at the rate on 2026-10-02. You pay in yen.
- Where to stay in Hakodate: two by the station, two in Yunokawa, one more
- Danshaku Club has a kitchen in the room; Nagisatei has 120 open-air onsen rooms
- Hewitt allows check-in until 5:30am, seven minutes by car from the airport
The five
| Best for | Where to book | Score | Weeknight (per person) | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A minute from the morning market, with a kitchen in the room — if you can’t decide | Hakodate Danshaku Club Hotel & Resorts Check price |
82/100 | ¥13,000–15,000 | ¥15,000–20,000 |
| Five minutes from Hakodate station, with a natural onsen | Century Marina Hakodate Check price |
81/100 | ¥14,000–21,000 | ¥15,000–107,000 |
| 120 rooms with their own open-air onsen bath | Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei Check price |
79/100 | ¥12,000–16,000 | ¥14,000–18,000 |
| Seven minutes from Hakodate airport, with check-in until 5:30am | Hakodate Yunokawa Onsen Umi to Akari, Hewitt Resort Check price |
77/100 | ¥11,000–18,000 | ¥20,000–31,000 |
| Every room 31 m² or more, with natural onsen baths | La Vista Hakodate Bay Annex Check price |
71/100 | ¥21,000–31,000 | ¥26,000–33,000 |
Prices are the cheapest per person found on Rakuten Travel for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 2026-10-28 – 2026-12-19, for 2 adults in one room (checked 2026-10-18). They move daily — the link shows live prices.
The booking links go to Agoda, which shows today’s price and lets you pay in your own currency. Its price can differ from the Rakuten Travel figures above.
A minute from the morning market, with a kitchen in the room
Hakodate Danshaku Club Hotel & Resorts
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.65/5 (976) · Agoda 9.0/10 (625) · 1,601 in total
- Rakuten’s listing calls it a city resort hotel
- What you buy at the market can be cooked or eaten in the room
- Service rated 4.69, the best of the five
- Check-in 15:00; parking for 24 cars, first come first served (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- Three minutes from JR Hakodate station; one minute from the morning market.
- Rooms with a balcony and a kitchen; a microwave in some rooms, booked in advance.
- Coin laundry, bicycles for hire, and Wi-Fi in every room.
- About ¥13,000–15,000 per person with breakfast on a weekday; 4.65 across 976 reviews.
Getting there: Three minutes on foot from JR Hakodate station; one minute from Hakodate morning market.
Language and payment: Rakuten’s listing says a few staff speak a little English. Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club and Discover are among the cards accepted. No bath house is listed, so tattoos do not come up. Parking is ¥1,000 a night.
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Right for: Staying several nights and eating from the morning market.
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Not for: No bath house in Rakuten’s listing, so no onsen here.
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Worth knowing: Check-out is 10:00, an hour earlier than most of the five. If you will check in after 22:00, tell the hotel in advance.
Score breakdown — 82/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.56 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★☆ | ¥13,000–15,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 95% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 10:00; three minutes from JR Hakodate station and one from the morning market; rooms with a balcony and a kitchen; Wi-Fi in every room; coin laundry and bicycles for hire. |
| Trust | ★★★★☆ | 4.65 across 976 reviews (Rakuten Travel 976) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | A minute from the morning market, with a balcony and a kitchen in the room. |
Five minutes from Hakodate station, with a natural onsen
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.65/5 (4,098) · Agoda 9.2/10 (3,064) · 7,162 in total
- The only one of the five with an onsen you can walk to from the station
- Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00
- Parking ¥1,000 a day (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- About five minutes on foot from JR Hakodate station.
- Natural hot-spring baths with an open-air bath and sauna; a free gym for guests.
- No curfew; open 24 hours.
- 4.65 across 4,098 reviews; breakfast scores 4.74.
Getting there: About five minutes on foot from JR Hakodate station; about twenty minutes by car from Hakodate airport.
Language and payment: Rakuten’s listing says a few staff speak a little English. Visa, JCB, American Express and Diners Club are among the cards accepted, and the room is paid for at check-in. The bath is communal and nude in the Japanese way; tattoo rules are not published, so ask before you rely on it.
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Right for: Staying by the station and still getting into an onsen at night.
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Not for: Saturday prices swing widely — from about ¥15,000 to ¥107,000 per person in our search.
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Worth knowing: Hakodate’s accommodation tax (from 1 April 2026) and a hot-spring bathing tax are charged on top, per the listing.
Score breakdown — 81/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.68 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★☆☆ | ¥14,000–21,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 100% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; about five minutes from JR Hakodate station; natural hot-spring bath house with open-air bath and sauna; a new free gym for guests; no curfew, open 24 hours; 317 rooms. |
| Trust | ★★★★☆ | 4.65 across 4,098 reviews (Rakuten Travel 4,098) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | A natural hot-spring bath house and open-air bath about five minutes’ walk from Hakodate station. |
120 rooms with their own open-air onsen bath
Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.47/5 (2,422) · Agoda 9.0/10 (615) · 3,037 in total
- Large hot-spring hotel in Yunokawa Onsen
- Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00
- Free parking for 60 cars (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- 120 of the 190 rooms have a private open-air onsen bath.
- A few staff handle everyday English, per Rakuten’s listing.
- About fifteen minutes from Hakodate station by Hakodate Bus; the stop is a minute away.
- About ¥12,000–16,000 per person with breakfast on a weekday, and from about ¥14,000 on a Saturday — the cheapest Saturday of the five.
Getting there: One minute on foot from the Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei-mae stop on the Hakodate Bus (route 6 from Hakodate station, about fifteen minutes); about fifteen minutes by taxi from Hakodate station.
Language and payment: Rakuten’s listing says a few staff handle everyday English, and a few speak a little Chinese and Korean. Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express and Diners Club are among the cards accepted. The bathing tax is included in the rate. The large baths are communal and nude; tattoo rules are not published, so ask — or book a room with its own bath.
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Right for: Soaking in onsen water in your own room, with no one else around.
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Not for: Not walkable from Hakodate station or the morning market.
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Worth knowing: Only 120 of the 190 rooms have the open-air bath, so book that room type specifically.
Score breakdown — 79/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.53 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★☆ | ¥12,000–16,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 91% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; one minute from the Hakodate Bus stop in front of the hotel; 120 rooms with a private open-air onsen bath; a few staff handle everyday English; onsen bath house with open-air bath and sauna; bathing tax included in the rate. |
| Trust | ★★★☆☆ | 4.47 across 2,422 reviews (Rakuten Travel 2,422) |
| Only here | ★★★★★ | In Yunokawa Onsen, with 120 rooms that have their own open-air hot-spring bath. |
Seven minutes from Hakodate airport, with check-in until 5:30am
Hakodate Yunokawa Onsen Umi to Akari, Hewitt Resort
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.48/5 (2,767) · Agoda 9.0/10 (4,942) · 7,709 in total
- Opened in July 2021 in Yunokawa Onsen
- Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00
- Free parking (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- Seven minutes by car from Hakodate airport; a minute from the Nettai-Shokubutsuen-mae bus stop.
- Natural hot-spring baths, an open-air bath and a family bath.
- Last check-in 29:30, which is 5:30am.
- From about ¥11,000 per person with breakfast on a weekday — the cheapest of the five.
Getting there: Seven minutes by car from Hakodate airport; one minute on foot from the Nettai-Shokubutsuen-mae (Tropical Botanical Garden) stop on the Hakodate Bus.
Language and payment: Rakuten’s listing says a few staff speak a little English. Visa, Mastercard, JCB and American Express are accepted. A bathing tax of ¥150 per person is charged on top. The main baths are communal and nude; tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book.
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Right for: Flying in or out of Hakodate and wanting an onsen the same night.
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Not for: A bus ride from the station and the market, and Saturdays rise to about ¥20,000–31,000 per person.
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Worth knowing: A bathing tax is charged separately. If you will arrive later than the time you booked, call the hotel.
Score breakdown — 77/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.51 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★☆ | ¥11,000–18,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 83% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; seven minutes by car from Hakodate airport; one minute from the Nettai-Shokubutsuen-mae bus stop; natural hot-spring baths with open-air bath and family bath; last check-in 29:30 (5:30am); opened 1 July 2021. |
| Trust | ★★★☆☆ | 4.48 across 2,767 reviews (Rakuten Travel 2,767) |
| Only here | ★★★☆☆ | In Yunokawa Onsen, seven minutes from the airport, and you can still check in after a late arrival. |
Every room 31 m² or more, with natural onsen baths
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.68/5 (378) · Agoda 9.2/10 (428) · 806 in total
- Room score 4.73 and breakfast score 4.75, the best of the five
- Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00
- Parking for 42 cars at ¥1,000 a night, first come first served, no booking (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- Every room 31 m² or larger; 74 rooms.
- Natural hot-spring baths with an open-air bath and sauna.
- 4.68 across 378 reviews — joint highest of the twelve that qualified.
- City loop bus from Hakodate station to Hakodate Beer, then two minutes on foot.
Getting there: Two minutes on foot from the Hakodate Beer stop on the city loop bus from JR Hakodate station.
Language and payment: Rakuten’s listing says a few staff speak a little English. Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express and Diners Club are among the cards accepted. The baths are communal and nude; tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. Rooms for wheelchair users are available.
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Right for: A big room and a proper onsen, for a slower stay.
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Not for: The dearest of the five, about ¥21,000–31,000 per person on a weekday.
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Worth knowing: A bathing tax (age 12 and over) and the accommodation tax are charged on top. Floor and view cannot be specified.
Score breakdown — 71/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.72 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★☆☆☆☆ | ¥21,000–31,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 153% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; two minutes from the Hakodate Beer stop on the city loop bus from Hakodate station; every room 31 m² or larger; natural hot-spring baths with open-air bath and sauna; rooms for wheelchair users. |
| Trust | ★★★★☆ | 4.68 across 378 reviews (Rakuten Travel 378) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | Every room is 31 m² or larger, and its 4.68 average is the highest of the twelve that qualified (level with Villa Concordia). |
Know before you book
- The Hokkaido Shinkansen does not run into Hakodate itself. It stops at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, where you change to the Hakodate Liner for Hakodate station — allow for the change on both your first and last day.
- Hakodate station is the middle of things. The morning market is right beside it, and the tram and the ropeway up Mount Hakodate for the night view are within easy reach.
- Yunokawa Onsen is Hakodate’s hot-spring district, out to the east towards the airport. The tram runs there from Hakodate station; stay there if the bath matters more than the walk to the market.
- Hakodate airport is close to town: the hotels’ own listings put it about twenty minutes by car from the station area, and seven minutes from one of the Yunokawa hotels.
- Only one of the five has a natural hot spring within walking distance of Hakodate station. The others with onsen water are a short bus ride out.
- Prices here are per person with breakfast, for two sharing. Since 1 April 2026 a Hokkaido and Hakodate accommodation tax is added on top — ¥200 per person per night on rooms under ¥20,000 and ¥400 from ¥20,000, per one hotel’s listing — and the onsen hotels add a small bathing tax.
How we chose: theme, conditions, scoring
How we chose
- Candidates: every property in Hakodate listed on Rakuten Travel — 289
- Passed the review filter (counts and averages on Rakuten Travel, the one site that lists every property in the area): 68
- Met every condition below: 12
- Kept: five, each the best at something different
Where the facts come from
- Facts: Rakuten Travel property information (in some articles, each hotel’s own site too)
- Prices: Rakuten Travel live availability, Wednesdays and Saturdays over eight weeks
- Reviews: the count and average on Rakuten Travel, as given in each hotel’s Trust row. Agoda’s reviews are shown under each hotel name for reference only and do not count towards the score
Conditions (all of them, not most of them)
- In Rakuten Travel’s Hakodate, Yunokawa, Onuma and Okushiri district
- At least 100 reviews on Rakuten Travel, averaging 4.0 or better
- The cheapest rate falls between ¥7,000 and ¥35,000 per person per night
- The listing states a walking time from a station or bus stop
Scoring
Five criteria, one to five stars each, weighted to one hundred points. Every star says where the number came from.
- Quality20 pts
- The average of the scores Rakuten Travel publishes for the room, the bath and the food.
- Value for money25 pts
- The cheapest breakfast-inclusive rate against the median of the hotels we compared.
- Easy to stay30 pts
- Minutes from the station, a bath house, and check-out time.
- Trust20 pts
- Review counts and averages published by Rakuten Travel.
- Only here5 pts
- What this hotel has that the other eleven do not.
What we dropped
| Property | Verdict | Why |
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| Villa Concordia Resort & Spa | Runner-up (68/100) | Ten suites with kitchens and the best dinner score of the twelve, but it scored 68 against 71 for La Vista Hakodate Bay Annex. The deciding factor was price: about ¥24,000–49,000 per person on a weekday, 177% of the median, with no bath house and a twenty-minute walk from the station. |
| La Vista Hakodate Bay | Runner-up (64/100) | The most reviewed hotel of the twelve, with a top-floor onsen, but it scored 64. Its room, bath and dinner scores average 4.35, the lowest of the seven, and it is fifteen minutes on foot from the station — Century Marina Hakodate does the station-side onsen in five minutes and scored 81. |
| Hakodate Onuma Tsuruga Resort Epuy | Outside the theme | 4.58 across 211 reviews and three minutes from JR Onuma-Koen station, but that is out at Lake Onuma, about thirty minutes by car from central Hakodate. |
| Tokyu Stay Hakodate Asaichi Akari no Yu | Outside the theme | About four minutes from Hakodate station with a top-floor onsen and open-air bath, 4.44 across 872 reviews — but its cheapest rate is below our ¥7,000 floor. |
| Bourou Noguchi Hakodate | Could not check | 4.47 across 477 reviews and three minutes from the Yunokawa Onsen tram stop, but the listing gave no cheapest rate, so we could not test it against our price range. |
| 221 hotels | Below the floor | Fewer than 100 reviews, or an average below 4.0. |
Questions visitors ask
I arrive on the Hokkaido Shinkansen. Which of these is closest?
The Shinkansen stops at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, not in the city; change there to the Hakodate Liner for Hakodate station. From Hakodate station, Hakodate Danshaku Club Hotel & Resorts is three minutes on foot and Century Marina Hakodate about five. The two Yunokawa hotels are a bus ride further on.
Should I stay by the station or in Yunokawa Onsen?
By the station if you want to walk to the morning market at breakfast time and ride up Mount Hakodate for the night view; Century Marina Hakodate gives you an onsen there too. Yunokawa if the hot spring is the point of the trip, or if you are flying: it is towards the airport, and Umi to Akari is seven minutes away by car. Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei is about fifteen minutes by bus from Hakodate station.
Can I have an onsen bath to myself?
Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei has 120 rooms with their own open-air onsen bath — book that room type, because the other 70 rooms do not have one. Umi to Akari has a family bath alongside its communal baths. The communal baths here are nude, in the Japanese way, and none of these hotels publishes a tattoo rule on Rakuten, so ask before you go.
Which hotel is best if I do not speak Japanese?
Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei is the only one of the five whose Rakuten listing says a few staff can handle everyday English; a few also speak a little Chinese and Korean. The other four say a few staff speak a little English. All five accept Visa, JCB and American Express.
How much do these cost?
The table shows the cheapest price per person with breakfast, for two sharing, from Rakuten Travel’s availability search for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 28 October and 19 December 2026. The weekday lows run from about ¥11,000 at Umi to Akari to about ¥21,000 at La Vista Hakodate Bay Annex. Saturdays cost more, and the Hokkaido and Hakodate accommodation tax and a hot-spring bathing tax are added on top.
Which one would you book?
Hakodate Danshaku Club Hotel & Resorts: three minutes from the station, one from the morning market, a kitchen in the room, and 82 points — the best total here — at about ¥13,000–15,000 per person on a weekday. If you want an onsen without leaving the station area, Century Marina Hakodate scored 81 and is five minutes’ walk from the station.
Changes
- 2026-10-29 First published. Scored from 289 candidates.