Ryokan, Niseko
Zaborin
Zaborin is a ryokan of fifteen villas in the birch forest of Hanazono, Niseko, every villa with an indoor and an outdoor onsen fed by the ryokan's own spring, and Mount Yotei across the pastures.
- Fifteen villas
- in the birch forest of Hanazono
- Two onsen
- in every villa, indoors and out
- Its own spring
- from about a thousand metres down
- Mount Yotei
- across the pastures
Stay at Zaborin on a Custom Tour of Japan, created around your party alone, on the dates you choose.
the room
The rooms
The villas are Japanese or Western in style, each with a living room and a bedroom, tatami and futon in the Japanese villas and beds in the Western, and some with a further room of seven tatami for a family. Cotton pyjamas, linen work clothes and fleece-lined haori are laid out for the stay, and the windows look out unhindered over forest and mountain.
to unwind
The onsen
The ryokan's spring is a sodium bicarbonate chloride water, rich in metasilicic acid and soft on the skin. It rises from about a thousand metres down and flows straight into each villa's two onsen: a spacious one indoors, and one outdoors in cypress or hand-carved stone, with the scent of the forest around it.
the table
Dining
Dinner is a northern kaiseki, its ingredients chosen with the growers and fishermen of Hokkaido and served on hand-made ceramics in a quiet dining room; guests staying four nights or more may dine at an irori hearth in a room of their own. Breakfast is Japanese, with milk tofu, Hokkaido fish and miso soup, or Western if preferred. Beyond the table are a lounge with a fire facing Mount Yotei, a bar, a library and a tea room.
the setting
Niseko
The ryokan stands in a forest of white birch in Hanazono, on the Kutchan side of Niseko, its villas looking over the Hanazono pastures to Mount Yotei, the cone called Ezo Fuji, and round to Niseko Annupuri. Each villa takes its name from a different crystal of snow.
A pond lies before the lounge in the birch forest, the green pastures of Hanazono open beyond it, and the lifts of Hanazono are about seven minutes by car.
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our tours here
Zaborin, on a journey of your own
A Custom Tour of Japan can place Zaborin wherever it best suits your journey, for as many nights as you wish, with your own Tour Director and a private car and driver every day.
To ski from Zaborin independently, a Japan ski itinerary is written for your party: the mountain, the room to ask for and every day on the snow, from $550.
questions
Questions about Zaborin
Where is Zaborin?
In Hanazono, in the town of Kutchan, Niseko, about two hours by car from New Chitose Airport and fifteen minutes from Kutchan Station.
Do the villas at Zaborin have their own onsen?
Yes. Every one of the fifteen villas has an indoor onsen and an outdoor onsen, both on the ryokan's own spring, flowing without pause.
Can Zaborin be part of a private journey?
Yes. A Custom Tour of Japan can include Zaborin on dates of your own, created around your party alone, with your own Tour Director. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans every day for you.
Zaborin, on your dates.
Tell us when you would like to travel, and we will answer with a Custom Tour of Japan that includes Zaborin, created around your party alone. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans every day for you.