Laforet Hakone Gora Yunosumika
ラフォーレ箱根強羅 湯の棲
Does Laforet Hakone Gora Yunosumika allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Tattoos are allowed in the shared baths under two cover seals of 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) each. Anything larger means booking the Ayakan wing, where every room has its own open-air bath.
The rule is on the hotel's own bath page, and tattoos are otherwise refused.
Show this at the front desk
タトゥー（入れ墨）を入れている方のご入浴はお断りしています。ただし、カバーシール（8cm×10cm）2枚でタトゥーを隠していただける場合のみご入浴可能です。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The water is sulfur water from Owakudani, the fuming volcanic ground of Hakone. Each side has a large indoor bath, an open-air bath set in a Japanese garden and a sauna; the sides don’t swap. The baths are open 6 to 10 a.m. and noon to midnight, from 3 p.m. on Thursdays, the sauna noon to 11 p.m. The Ayakan wing, opened in January 2024, has an open-air bath on the Owakudani spring in every room, 40 m² premier rooms with a terrace onto the Gora woods; four of them are dog-friendly and can be booked only by guests bringing a small dog.
The hotel
A hotel formerly called Laforet Gora, finished in warm wood, with a sunken-hearth living room where you take your shoes off. The main dining room is Shunsaigura. Ayakan guests can instead have dinner and breakfast in their room, cooked from Numazu fish and vegetables grown on Hakone's western slopes. Check-in is 3 p.m. and checkout is 11 a.m.
Good to know
- Two 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) seals, no more. Anything larger than two seals can hide is refused.
- Bring a toothbrush and razor. Some amenities are sold rather than supplied.
- Book Ayakan for an open-air Owakudani bath in your own room.
Getting there
Naka-Gora is one stop up from Gora. Return runs to Gora leave at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:15 a.m. and noon, booked at the front desk.
Naka-Gora STN · Hakone Tozan cable car
About 5 minutes.
Free pickup from Gora or Sounzan Station, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.; call on arrival.
Where it is
Naka-Gora STN
- Odakyu line 1 hr 35 min
- Hakone Tozan railway 37 min
- cable car 3 min
- Hakone Freepass from ¥7,100 · 2 or 3 days from Shinjuku Worth it if you’re coming from Shinjuku and moving around Hakone. It covers the Odakyu line from Shinjuku and back, then unlimited rides on the Hakone Tozan railway, cable car, ropeway, lake boats and buses. The Romancecar seat fee is extra.
- Mt Fuji and Hakone day tour Lake Ashi’s torii, the pirate ship, Owakudani and Oshino Hakkai, from Tokyo.
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- 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
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 (bath page states the size)
Best for: a small tattoo that two standard seals hide, or dog owners who want an Ayakan room with its own bath
Communal onsen baths with an open-air section, on men's and women's sides. The 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) figure is the size of one seal and the hotel allows two, so read it as two separate coverable areas rather than a single 8 cm × 20 cm (3.1 × 7.9 in) strip. The hotel's own bath page describes communal baths only; no private bath rooms are listed.
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