Wa no Resort Hazu
和のリゾート はづ
Does Wa no Resort Hazu allow tattoos? In a private bath
Wa no Resort Hazu sits high on the Nishiura headland with every room facing Mikawa Bay. Its bath notice says tattooed guests use the private bath only: a reserved open-air tub for 45 minutes, filled with ordinary heated water.
The inn says guests with tattoos may use the private bath only, which closes its shared open-air bath and large bath to them. The private open-air bath is reserved for 45 minutes at 2,750 yen, and day visitors can book it as well. Three guest rooms have an open-air bath of their own on a deck above the sea.
Show this at the front desk
また、刺青・タトゥーがある方は貸切り風呂のみのご利用となります。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The private open-air bath is the one a tattooed guest books. The inn describes it as a wide view kept to yourself, and its photo shows a rectangular stone tub on a tiled terrace with the sea framed in a cut-out of the fence. A session is 45 minutes for ¥2,750, starting on the hour between 3 and 9 p.m. Day visitors can reserve a start between 3 and 6 p.m. The inn notes that this tub is not natural hot spring water.
Three guest rooms have an open-air bath on a wooden deck terrace facing the sea: Hagoromo, Shirotae and Surusumi, each with a different tub. They are 15-mat Japanese rooms for up to six. These tubs are not hot spring water either.
The spring, Bihakusen, runs to the shared open-air bath of the same name, a curved tub built shallow so bathers can stretch out and watch the bay. The inn calls the water a beauty bath, an alkaline simple spring low in salt and calcium, and lists it for cold sensitivity, fatigue, rheumatism and neuralgia. That bath is open 1 to 11 p.m. and 6 to 9 a.m. The Panorama Spa large bath on the 7th floor looks over the bay and the Sangane hills.
The hotel
The inn is the seaside house of the Hazu group, whose other inns are in the Yuya Onsen valley inland. It stands on high ground and says every room has an ocean view. Besides the three rooms with open-air baths there are ocean-view Japanese rooms, all with bath and toilet. Dinner features the group's Hazu wagyu beef. The whole building has been non-smoking in guest rooms since April 2022. Check-in is from 3 p.m. and check-out by 10 a.m. The inn also serves as a running station, with lockers and a bath for runners.
Good to know
- Tattooed guests: the private bath only. ¥2,750 for 45 minutes, on the hour from 3 to 9 p.m.
- Not spring water in the private bath or the three room tubs; the spring is in the shared open-air bath.
- No booking for the station microbus: tell the driver the inn's name at Nishiura Station.
- The last road is a steep hill, the inn warns drivers.
Getting there
From Nagoya, take the JR Tokaido Line to Gamagori and change to the Meitetsu Gamagori Line for Nishiura. The Nishiura Onsen inns' cooperative runs a free microbus from the station; it waits near the ticket gate and needs no reservation unless you are ten or more. Tell the driver you are going to Wa no Resort Hazu. The inn publishes no ride time. Drivers come by the Otowa-Gamagori interchange, about 30 minutes away, and the last climb is steep.
Nishiura STN · Meitetsu Gamagori Line
Not walkable.
Free microbus run by the Nishiura Onsen inns' cooperative from the station; no reservation for fewer than ten.
Where it is
Hotel shuttle stop
- JR Tokaido line 45 min
- Meitetsu Gamagori line 10 min
- inns' free microbus 5 to 10 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Mt. Fuji-Shizuoka Area Tourist Pass Mini ¥6,500 · 3 consecutive days Worth it only if Shizuoka or Mount Fuji is on the same trip.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
Use the bath in your room, or reserve a private bath.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the day-use bathing notice on the inn's hot spring page)
Best for: a reserved open-air tub with a sea view that the inn itself names for tattooed bathers
The inn states that the private open-air bath is not natural hot spring water, and that the open-air baths in the three guest rooms (Hagoromo, Shirotae and Surusumi) are not hot spring water either. Private bath: 45 minutes, 2,750 yen, starting on the hour from 3 to 9 p.m.; day visitors may start between 3 and 6 p.m. and must book ahead. The shared open-air bath, which does carry the spring, is closed Monday until 3 p.m. for maintenance and the large bath Thursday until 3 p.m. All rooms are non-smoking.
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