Uematsuya
旅宿 上松や
Does Uematsuya allow tattoos? In a private bath
Uematsuya reopened in 2020 as an inn for people traveling alone, and the same year it built a private bath styled on the bamboo grove behind the house, a single dark tub it calls Take-no-yu.
Uematsuya publishes no tattoo rule, and it has one private bath: Take-no-yu, an indoor tub done in black with a bamboo motif, 2,500 yen before tax for 35 minutes, reserved after you check in. No guest room has a bath on spring water. The two large shared baths have no stated rule.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Ueda STN change to Ueda Electric Railway · 27 min
Hokuriku Shinkansen 85 min
Hotel locationBessho-Onsen STN
JR East Pass Covers the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Ueda. The Ueda Electric Railway on to Bessho is a private line and is paid separately; the JR Tokyo Wide Pass stops short of Ueda. 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 rather than a tattoo policy (the inn’s onsen page describes and prices the private bath; its facilities page lists one private bath)
Read on: uematsuya.com/onsen.html
Best for: Solo travelers: the inn built its business around guests who come alone
Thirty-two rooms in two wings; none is listed with its own spring bath. Take-no-yu opened in March 2020. The shared baths, Nanakuri and Rokumon, change sides at 23:00–23:15 and between them have six tubs, all free-flowing, including an octagonal tub and a one-person ceramic tub named Sanada-yu. The front desk handles English and Chinese. Parking is away from the inn; staff move your car.
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