Happo onsen town, 2 minutes from the bus terminal Small ryokan-style hotel (10 rooms) ★★★☆☆

Yamanosato Hotel Hakuba Hifumi

山の郷ホテル 白馬ひふみ

Does Yamanosato Hotel Hakuba Hifumi allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Ten rooms, six of them with a hinoki or Shigaraki-ware tub on the terrace running Happo water from the source, and a family bath that costs nothing and is booked for an hour at check-in.

Hifumi publishes nothing about tattoos. Six of its ten rooms have their own open-air bath fed with Happo onsen water straight from the source, and there is a family bath, Yui-no-Yu, that any guest can reserve free for 60 minutes. Both avoid the shared baths entirely.

Where it is

Tokyo STN Nagano STN change to Alpico express bus · 70 min Hokuriku Shinkansen 97 min Hotel location
Hakuba Happo bus terminal
Everything here is reached from Tokyo. Karuizawa is an hour on the Hokuriku Shinkansen and Echigo-Yuzawa 79 minutes on the Joetsu Shinkansen, both with no change. Kawaguchiko is the Fuji Excursion from Shinjuku, about two hours, and Isawa the Kaiji, an hour and forty. The Nagano towns change once: Bessho at Ueda, Nozawa at Iiyama, and Yudanaka, Hakuba and Myoko at Nagano.. Yamanosato Hotel Hakuba Hifumi · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR East Pass Covers the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagano, or the JR line from Shinjuku by way of Matsumoto to Hakuba. The Alpico bus from Nagano is not included. Sold on Klook.

What happens when you arrive

Skip the shared baths and reserve the private one the way this page describes. Once the door is closed, the bath is yours.

How we know

Confirmed from official site — bath structure, not a tattoo policy (hot spring, rooms and FAQ pages read in Japanese and English; none mentions tattoos)

Read on: hakubahifumi.jp/rooms/

Best for: An open-air bath on your own terrace in the middle of Happo

Rooms with open-air baths: suites Toki, Sen (hinoki) and Nagomi (hinoki), and rooms Kaede (Shigaraki), Fuki (hinoki) and Hina (Shigaraki); four standard Japanese rooms have no open-air bath. The in-room baths use the Happo source as it comes, per the hotel. Private family bath Yui-no-Yu: free, 60 minutes, booked at check-in or ahead, check-in to 23:00 and 6:00 to check-out. Two large baths alternate between men and women. Free pick-up from Hakuba Station in a 9-seat bus. The English site says enquiries are by email, not phone.

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