Hakone Kogen Hotel
Does Hakone Kogen Hotel allow tattoos? In a private bath
The shared baths are restricted, but a private or in-room bath is open to you. You are bathing alone or with your own party, so the communal rule does not apply.
A reservable family bath, 【明星】. Nothing on the hotel’s site states a tattoo rule for the communal bath either way, so the private bath is the part we can point at.
What happens when you arrive
Do not use the shared baths — the rule there is a refusal, and the private bath is the whole reason this listing exists. Reserve it the way the property requires: the notes on this page say whether that is a time slot booked ahead, a request at check-in, or a phone call. Once the door is closed nobody is checking anything.
How we know
Confirmed Confirmed from official site — private bath exists. No tattoo policy is published for the communal bath.
Read on: hakonekogenhotel.jp
Best for: Lake Ashi, with a family bath you can book rather than a rule you have to ask about
Also sells day-use bathing, 12:00–16:00. The second family bath 【足柄】 closed on 7 February 2025, leaving one. Listed here as tattoo-friendly on a crowd-sourced directory’s word; that is not on the hotel’s own pages.