Dormy Inn Abashiri

Inside Abashiri's compact downtown grid, Dormy Inn Abashiri draws business and leisure guests with a genuine natural hot spring bath — uncommon for a three-star business hotel — alongside an open-air rooftop bath and sauna on the upper floor.

Rooms follow the Dormy Inn chain's practical format: narrow but well-organized, with flat-screen TV, electric kettle, and slippers provided. The on-site restaurant handles dinner and a late-night ramen service, a Dormy Inn signature that regulars plan around.

Abashiri sits on Hokkaido's northeast coast, known for drift ice on the Sea of Okhotsk from January through March. The Abashiri Prison Museum and Okhotsk Drift Ice Museum both fall within a short taxi ride of the hotel's Minami 2-jo address.