Hotel Shikinoyakata Hakone Ashinoko
ホテル四季の館 箱根芦ノ湖
Does Hotel Shikinoyakata Hakone Ashinoko allow tattoos? Yes, covered
You can bathe if the tattoo is completely hidden under a cover seal. The size the property allows is the thing to check before you book — allowances differ enough between chains to decide the matter.
Cover seal required, no size named. Tattooed guests were refused until 1 July 2024, when the hotel began accepting them on a trial basis if the design is completely hidden.
Show this at the front desk
入れ墨・タトゥーのある方のご入館・ご入浴を原則お断りとしますが、下記ルールを厳守していただける方は、2024年7月1日より、テスト的にご入浴を受け入れることにいたしました。
The operator’s own wording, copied from the page named under “How we know” below. Holding up your phone settles the question faster than explaining it.
What happens when you arrive
Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, with a seal that fits the size the property allows — that figure is in the policy line at the top of this page, and it is the property’s, not ours. Where the seals are sold at the front desk, buy them at check-in rather than at bath time; where they are not, bring your own. A seal that does not cover the whole tattoo counts as no seal, and staff are within their rules to turn you away at the door. Nothing needs declaring, but nothing may show.
How we know
Confirmed Confirmed from official site (bath page carries the dated notice)
Read on: shikinoyakata-hakone-ashinoko.com/hotspring/
Best for: A lake-view open-air bath, if your tattoo covers completely
The hotel calls this テスト的に — a trial — so it is a policy that could be withdrawn rather than a settled one. Same wording and same date as Hotel Morinokaze Hakone Sengokuhara; both are run by Nihon House Hotel & Resort. Merged 2026-09-02 with a duplicate entry of the same property; the earlier record described the policy as: "Cover seal required — fully covered tattoos accepted (trial policy since Jul 1, 2024)"
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