Funatsu, on the west side of the onsen town Ryokan with a sixteen-suite villa where every suite has a spring open-air bath

Grandia Housen

あわら温泉 グランディア芳泉

Does Grandia Housen allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The Kotobukitei villa is sixteen suites deep, and every one has an open-air tub filled from the three wells the inn owns.

Stay in a room with its own open-air bath. The Kotobukitei villa is sixteen suites, all with a spring-fed open-air tub, and the Yutorogitei wing adds more rooms with one. The inn owns three sources. It publishes no tattoo rule for the shared baths, so the in-room tub is the answer.

Where it is

Kanazawa STN Awara-Onsen STN change to Keifuku bus · 8 min Hokuriku Shinkansen 26 min Komatsu Airport Hotel location
Awara-Yunomachi STN
Kanazawa is the door. Yamashiro, Yamanaka and Katayamazu are eighteen minutes on the Shinkansen to Kaga-Onsen and then a local bus of ten to thirty minutes. Awara is the next Shinkansen stop, 26 minutes, and eight minutes on the Keifuku bus. Awazu is the IR Ishikawa Railway, the old JR line, 38 minutes, and a short bus. Komatsu Airport, with flights from Tokyo Haneda, is closer to these towns than Kanazawa is.. Grandia Housen · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Hokuriku Area Pass Four days on the Hokuriku Shinkansen between Tsuruga and Kurobe-Unazukionsen, non-reserved, for 7,000 yen. It covers the ride from Kanazawa to Awara-Onsen; the Keifuku bus into the onsen town is paid separately. Worth it if a Kaga town or Unazuki is on the same trip. 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)

Read on: g-housen.co.jp/kotobukitei/

Best for: A garden suite with the tub a step off the tatami

Kotobukitei: Garden Suites on the first floor (three with two tatami rooms, three with tatami plus twin beds), Comfort Suites on the second floor (nine), and a Royal Suite with a garden open-air bath. The inn’s history page also lists open-air-bath rooms added in the Kiseiden and Koseiden buildings, and a private open-air bath called Suisen, which is not advertised on the current bath pages, so do not count on it. Shared baths Tsuki no Yu and Hoshi no Yu were renovated in 2017. Not on Booking.com.

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