Inatoriso
海一望 絶景の宿 いなとり荘
Does Inatoriso allow tattoos? In a private bath
Inatoriso faces straight out to sea, and its top floor holds two private open-air baths called Crescent Moon and Full Moon. Every room looks at the water, and guests keep theirs until noon.
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It rents two private open-air baths on its top floor, Mikazuki and Mangetsu, at ¥2,200 for 50 minutes, and sells twelve rooms with a free-flowing spring tub of their own. Either lets a tattooed guest bathe with the sea in front and nobody else in the water. Ask before using the shared baths.
The bath
Two private open-air baths sit on the eighth floor, the top of the building: Mikazuki, crescent moon, and Mangetsu, full moon. Each is let for 50 minutes at ¥2,200. Evening sessions run from 4 to 10 p.m., with the last booking at 9, and morning sessions from 7 to 11 a.m., with the last at 10. You can reserve before you arrive or on the day, and the hotel suggests reserving early to be sure of the time you want.
Twelve rooms have a spring tub of their own that the hotel describes as free-flowing: suites of about 70 to 80 square meters with an open-air or half-open-air bath, a Japanese modern room of 50 square meters and a corner twin of 42 square meters.
The shared baths are on the seventh floor. Umi is the men's bath in the evening and the women's in the morning; Kamome, with the open-air bath Sora attached, runs the other way. Hours are 3 p.m. to midnight and 5 to 10 a.m., with a sauna on each side. Sora is an infinity tub whose edge runs into the horizon. The shared water is filtered and recirculated with some run off, and cold water is added because the source is 80°C.
The hotel
A 57-room hotel on the Inatori seafront: 24 Japanese rooms, 21 rooms with beds and 12 rooms with beds and an open-air bath. Every room faces the sea and all are non-smoking. Check-in is from 3 p.m. and check-out is as late as noon, which the hotel makes a selling point. Suite guests take dinner and breakfast in a private room; other plans use a private room or the restaurant for dinner and a buffet for breakfast. Phone reception runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Good to know
- Reserve Mikazuki or Mangetsu ahead, at ¥2,200 for 50 minutes, evening or morning.
- Morning sessions run until 11 a.m., which fits the noon check-out.
- The free shuttle needs no booking: it loops between the station and the hotel from 2 to 6 p.m.
Getting there
The hotel gives 2 hours 10 to 30 minutes from Tokyo Station to Izu-Inatori Station on the direct Odoriko limited express, or about 3 hours by Shinkansen with a change at Atami to the Ito and Izukyu lines. From the station a free shuttle bus covers the 900 meters in about 5 minutes. It runs back and forth from 2 to 6 p.m. and needs no reservation; wait in front of the ticket gate.
Izu-Inatori STN · Izukyu Line (Odoriko limited express from Tokyo)
900 meters; the hotel gives no walking time.
Free shuttle from the ticket gate, 2 to 6 p.m., about 5 minutes, no reservation.
Where it is
Izu-Inatori 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, or reserve a private bath.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site: (the hot spring page gives the two reservable open-air baths with price and hours; the rooms page lists the rooms with spring open-air baths)
Best for: couples who want a rooftop tub at sunset for 50 minutes and a noon check-out
Private open-air baths Mikazuki and Mangetsu, eighth floor: ¥2,200 for 50 minutes, 4 to 10 p.m. (last booking 9 p.m.) and 7 to 11 a.m. (last booking 10 a.m.); they can be reserved ahead or on the day, and the hotel recommends booking ahead. Twelve rooms have an open-air or half-open-air spring tub the hotel calls free-flowing. The shared baths are filtered and recirculated with part of the water run off, and diluted because the source is 80°C. Check-out is noon.
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