Takami Hotel
たかみホテル
Does Takami Hotel allow tattoos? In a private bath
Takami Hotel has only 14 rooms, and half of them come with an open-air tub fed straight from the hotel’s own 82.8°C spring. After 8 p.m. the big view bath over the town can be had privately for half an hour, free.
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. Seven of its 14 rooms have their own open-air bath of free-flowing spring water. For the other rooms, the big view open-air bath turns private from 8 p.m. to midnight, free, in 30-minute turns arranged at check-in. Outside those hours that bath is mixed, with towels allowed, so it is not a place to count on.
The bath
Seven rooms have an open-air bath of their own, each a little different, all with the sea in front. The hotel says every bath in the building, room tubs included, runs on its own spring with nothing added and nothing reused. Guests in these rooms are given a small bottle of sake to drink in the tub.
The view open-air bath is the other private option. It is a large tub, room for about 20, looking down over the roofs of Atagawa to the ocean. From 8 p.m. to midnight it is let to one group at a time for 30 minutes at no charge, again with sake. You ask at the front desk when you check in; there is no booking ahead, and guests whose rooms have no tub go first. The rest of the day it is a mixed bath where a towel may be worn, apart from 6 to 8 p.m., when it is for women only.
The indoor baths are separate for men and women, look out to sea and never close. There is also a stone spa with five heated stone beds. The water is a sodium chloride and sulfate spring, alkaline, 82.8°C at the source. The front desk gives away powdered mineral crystals from the well, and guests may fill up to two 20-liter containers with spring water to take home.
The hotel
A 14-room ryokan that calls its site the best location in Atagawa, high above the hot spring town. Rooms are Japanese style for two to eight guests, each with bath, toilet and refrigerator. Dinner is served in the room and centers on shore cooking: local spiny lobster as sashimi and golden-eye snapper simmered whole. The building has a 60-mat banquet hall with a stage, a club, a shop and a game corner, and there is parking.
Good to know
- Ask for the private half hour at check-in; it cannot be reserved earlier and costs nothing.
- The view bath is mixed by day, with towels allowed, and women only from 6 to 8 p.m.
- Sake for the tub comes with the room baths and the private session.
- Bring a container if you want to take spring water home.
Getting there
The hotel gives about 2 hours from Tokyo to Izu-Atagawa Station on the direct Odoriko limited express. By Shinkansen it is 53 minutes to Atami, then 52 minutes on the Izukyu Line. The hotel stands on the hill above the town and its access page gives no walking time from the station, so ask about a pickup when you book. Parking is available for drivers.
Izu-Atagawa STN · Izukyu Line (Odoriko limited express from Tokyo)
The hotel publishes no walking time.
Uphill from the station; ask the hotel about a pickup.
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
Use the bath in your room.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site: (the bath page gives the seven rooms with open-air baths and the free private hours at the view bath)
Best for: couples who want dinner in the room and a spring-fed tub on their own balcony above the town
The view open-air bath holds about 20 people. Its day is split: mixed bathing until 6 p.m., women only from 6 to 8 p.m., private use from 8 p.m. to midnight, mixed again after midnight. Private turns are 30 minutes a group, free, requested at the front desk at check-in with no advance booking, and guests in rooms without a tub get priority. The indoor baths are separate for men and women and open around the clock.
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