Onsen 1-chome, in the onsen town Unstaffed onsen inn where every room has its own spring bath

Rakuten STAY Awara Onsen

Rakuten STAY あわら温泉

Does Rakuten STAY Awara Onsen allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Twenty-three rooms and no front desk, each with a tub drawn from the inn’s own Awara well and a shaved-ice machine for after the soak.

There is no shared bath to argue about. The operator says every one of the 23 rooms has a bath fed from its own well, so the tattoo question never comes up. Check-in is by smart lock with a code sent in advance, which means no front desk either.

Where it is

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.. Rakuten STAY Awara Onsen · 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: stay.rakuten.co.jp/awara-onsen/

Best for: Anyone who wants a real Awara spring in the room and no staff encounter at all

Four room types, 23 rooms. The operator describes the room tubs as own-source spring water, bathing 15:00 until check-out at 10:00, and some rooms add a private sauna and a cold plunge on the terrace. Dinner is served in the room from a choice of three plans (crab hotpot, tomato sukiyaki, teppanyaki). Some rooms take dogs, and Booking.com lists pet and no-pet versions of the same room type. The room kit includes a shaved-ice machine.

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