HOTEL & SPA Century Marina Hakodate
センチュリーマリーナ函館
Does HOTEL & SPA Century Marina Hakodate allow tattoos? Yes, covered
A fifteenth-floor infinity tub over Hakodate harbor, above the only hotel in the city that has written down, in two languages, exactly how big a tattoo it will take.
Cover it and you are in. The hotel stopped refusing tattooed guests on 1 April 2020 and published a notice, in Japanese and English, saying so: anything that fits under at most two of the hotel’s own 15 by 10 centimeter cover seals is welcome in the bath. The seals are sold at the front desk rather than given out, so buy them when you check in. That is the largest seal allowance the guide has recorded from any single hotel.
Show this at the front desk
当ホテル指定のカバーシール15cm×10cm2枚までで覆えるサイズ
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Hakodate STN
Goryokaku
Shiyakusho Mae STN 4 min on foot
Hotel location
JR Hokkaido Rail Pass Five, seven or ten days of unlimited JR trains on the island, which covers the Hokuto limited express between Sapporo and Hakodate. The city tram out to Yunokawa is a separate fare, paid on board. Sold on Klook.
What happens when you arrive
Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, to the size on this page. How the seals work, and where to buy them →
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the spa page and the hotel’s own tattoo notice at /spa/pdf/tattoo2020.pdf, read 2026-09-18)
Read on: centurymarina.com/spa/
Best for: A large tattoo that will not fit under a business-hotel seal, and an infinity tub over the harbor
The notice explains the change in its own words: the hotel had refused tattooed bathers as a rule, then took account of fashion tattoos among younger Japanese and of one-point tattoos as identity among foreign visitors. Its English line reads that people with tattoos must hide them with up to two sheets of the 15cm x 10cm cover seals the hotel specifies, and that seals are provided for a price at the front desk. Spa Stella on the fourteenth floor, 05:30 to 24:30, sodium chloride strong saline; men get a mid-temperature loyly sauna, women an aroma mist salt sauna. Stella Deck, the infinity open-air bath, is on the fifteenth, same hours. The lounge upstairs runs 18:00 to 23:00.
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