La Vista Akangawa
カムイの湯 ラビスタ阿寒川
Does La Vista Akangawa allow tattoos? In a private bath
Every room in this riverside house has a cypress tub on the window that fills with source water at the push of a button, and downstairs three more private bathhouses stand open, free, with no reservation to make.
Nothing on this hotel’s pages addresses tattoos, so the riverside large bath Kajin-no-yu is an unknown. Everything else about the place is built to make that moot. The hotel states that every guest room, without exception, has a hinoki hot-spring tub fed from the source and filled at the push of a button, and it keeps three separate private bathhouses named Hoshi-no-yu, Tsuki-no-yu and Kaze-no-yu that it says are free, need no reservation and are open around the clock when empty.
Show this at the front desk
貸切風呂は無料・予約不要でお愉しみいただけます。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Kushiro STN
Akan Bus, Akan line about 2 h
Sapporo STN
Hakodate STN
Asahikawa STN
Hotel locationAkanko bus center
JR Hokkaido Rail Pass Five, seven or ten days of unlimited JR trains on the island, which covers the Ozora limited express from Sapporo to Kushiro. The Akan Bus from Kushiro to the lake, 2,750 yen, is paid separately. Sold on Klook.
What happens when you arrive
Skip the shared baths and reserve the private one the way this page describes. Once the door is closed, the bath is yours.
How we know
Confirmed from official site — bath structure, not a tattoo policy (the hotel’s 温泉 and 客室 pages)
Read on: dormy-hotels.com/resort/hotels/la_akangawa/hotspring/
Best for: A traveler with a car who wants a source-fed tub in the room and three more behind locked doors, on a river instead of a resort street
This is a Kyoritsu Resort house, so the Dormy breakfast and night-noodle habits apply. The three private baths are built in brick, hinoki and ceramic; the hotel says they are first come, first served rather than booked. The room tubs are described as 天然温泉檜造りの部屋風呂 with 源泉掛け流し and a one-touch fill. The large bath runs 15:00 to 11:00 with a cleaning break. It is off the village, not in it: budget a car or the hotel shuttle, and note Booking.com measures it at about 7 km from the lake.
Check availabilityBooking through this button costs you nothing extra and sends a small commission our way — it’s what keeps this guide free for our tattoo community, and every policy on it checked. Thank you.