Hotel Cetus Royal
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Does Hotel Cetus Royal allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Hotel Cetus Royal keeps a rock-lined open-air pool the size of a pond a hundred meters up the slope from its beachfront building, and its hot spring page admits a tattoo that fits under one cover seal.
The hotel refuses tattooed guests in its shared baths as a rule, with one written exception: a tattoo hidden under a single 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) cover seal is accepted. You bring the seal yourself, because the hotel does not supply one. Anything too large for one seal is turned away, and the pool refuses tattoos of any size, so larger work means booking one of the two private family baths at check-in.
Show this at the front desk
タトゥーなどを入れたお客様の大浴場のご利用は、原則お断りしています。ただし、8㎝☓10㎝のカバーシール1枚で見えないようカバーしていただいた場合は、この限りではありません。シールはお客様ご自身で持参願います。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The hotel's signature is its large open-air bath, which it calls the biggest on the Izu Peninsula. It sits about 100 meters from the main building, in the trees, and is split into two rock pools: Tsukiakari-no-yu and Hoshiakari-no-yu. One is for women from 4 p.m. to midnight and for men from 6 to 9 a.m., and the other runs the opposite way. The water comes from the Higuchi source, a sodium chloride and sulfate spring at pH 9.0 that leaves the ground at 95.4°C, and the hotel says the pools are fed without recirculation. Soap and shampoo are not allowed out there, and the pools close in bad weather.
Indoors, the Hikoboshi-no-yu (men) and Orihime-no-yu (women) halls look over Sagami Bay toward the Izu islands and use a second source, Shimami. They open from 3 p.m. to midnight and 6 to 9 a.m., with a sauna for about six people in the evening and a cold plunge.
Two private family baths, Nozomi-no-yu and Senri-no-yu, are let for 45 minutes a group in hourly slots from 4:30 to 10:30 p.m. and from 5:30 to 8:30 a.m. You book at the front desk when you check in; the hotel takes no advance reservations for them. From 8 p.m. to midnight the big open-air bath can also be reserved for 30 minutes.
The hotel
A 48-room hotel of the BBH group facing You-Yu Beach, with every room looking out to Izu Oshima. Rooms are Japanese style of 10 to 12.5 tatami or Japanese-Western corner rooms with twin beds; guests lay out their own futon. One top-floor room has its own free-flowing open-air tub. Meals are a half buffet with free-flow drinks, and there is a free happy hour from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and late-night udon noodles. The heated oceanfront pool opens all year. Check-in is 3 p.m., with the last check-in at 10 p.m., and check-out is 10 a.m.
Good to know
- Bring your own seal: one cover is the limit, and the hotel does not hand them out.
- Private baths are booked on arrival, at the front desk only, in 45-minute slots through the evening and early morning.
- No soap at the open-air pools, so wash in the indoor hall first.
- A free pickup from the station runs from 3 to 5 p.m. if you call from the ticket gate.
Getting there
From Tokyo Station the Odoriko limited express runs through to Izu-Atagawa Station; the hotel puts the trip at about 2 hours 20 minutes. The other way is the Shinkansen to Atami and then the Ito and Izukyu lines, about 60 minutes from Atami. From the station it is about 5 minutes on foot downhill to the beachfront. Between 3 and 5 p.m. the hotel collects guests who phone from the ticket gate. The outdoor lot holds 40 cars, free, first come first served.
Izu-Atagawa STN · Izukyu Line (Odoriko limited express from Tokyo)
About 5 minutes.
Free pickup from the station between 3 and 5 p.m. if you call on arrival.
Where it is
Izu-Atagawa STN
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Tokyo Wide Pass ¥16,000 · 3 days Three days of JR East trains from Tokyo, and the Izukyu line from Ito on to Izu-Atagawa and Izu-Inatori.
- Izukyu Discovery Pass Worth it if your stay also stops at Ito or Shimoda. It covers two or three days in a row on the Izukyu line between Ito and Izukyu-Shimoda, Izu-Atagawa and Izu-Inatori included, and a vacant ordinary seat on the Odoriko. It doesn’t cover the JR part of the ride from Tokyo.
- Mt Omuro and the Izu coast day trip The Mt Omuro lift, the Atami beach road, the Jogasaki cliffs and Ito’s harbor.
- 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 (the notes on the hotel’s hot spring page; the pool rule is on its facilities page)
Best for: travelers with one small tattoo who want a big rock pool of free-flowing spring water a short walk from the station
One seal only, brought from home. The large open-air bath is about 100 meters from the main building, has no soap or shampoo, and closes in heavy rain. The two private family baths, Nozomi-no-yu and Senri-no-yu, run 45 minutes a group and are booked at the front desk at check-in only; the page lists no fee. One top-floor room has its own free-flowing open-air tub and is sold by phone only. The pool page refuses tattoos regardless of size.
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