Itoen Hotel Inatori
伊東園ホテル稲取
Does Itoen Hotel Inatori allow tattoos? In a private bath
Itoen Hotel Inatori keeps one private open-air bath beside its shared ones: a square stone tub behind a bamboo fence, looking into the trees, at one of the lowest private-bath fees in town.
The hotel’s hot spring page refuses bathers with tattoos, and the Itoen chain’s FAQ on the same site tells tattooed guests to use a private bath or the bath in the room instead of the large bath and open-air bath. The private bath here is a small open-air stone tub among the trees, ¥1,650 for 50 minutes, reserved at the front desk on the day.
The bath
The private open-air bath is a square tub with a pale stone rim set on a timber deck, with a bamboo fence in front and trees beyond. It opens from 3 to 10:30 p.m. and again from 6 to 9:15 a.m. One session is 50 minutes and costs ¥1,650. A reservation is required, and you make it at the front desk on the day.
The shared baths are on the fourth floor of the Amagi wing, under the name Shiosai-no-yu. There are two halls, each with a sauna, and they change over between men and women so you can use one at night and the other in the morning. The open-air bath looks out to Cape Tomoro and Sagami Bay and follows the same changeover. Hours are 3 p.m. to midnight and 5 to 11 a.m., shortened on Tuesdays and Thursdays to 4 p.m. to midnight and 5 to 10 a.m.
The water is a sodium and calcium chloride spring, neutral and hot at the source. The hotel calls it salty and good at holding heat, and lists it for joint and muscle pain, bruises and chronic skin trouble. Lockers for room keys and valuables are in the fourth-floor bath area.
The hotel
A 70-room hotel of the Itoen chain on the slope above Inatori, mostly Japanese rooms with tatami mats and some Western rooms with beds. Every room has free Wi-Fi, a refrigerator and a safe, and towels are taken from the room to the bath. Pets are not accepted. Check-in is from 3 p.m. Parking for about 40 cars is free for staying guests. The hotel warns drivers that car navigation may pick lanes too narrow to drive, and asks them to come in by prefectural road 114 and the station road.
Good to know
- Reserve the private bath at the front desk on the day you want it; it is ¥1,650 for 50 minutes.
- Morning slots run from 6 to 9:15 a.m., useful if the evening is full.
- The free shuttle from Izu-Inatori Station must be booked ahead and takes about 5 minutes.
- Leave valuables in the lockers by the fourth-floor baths.
Getting there
From Tokyo Station the Odoriko limited express takes about 2 hours 25 minutes to Izu-Inatori Station. By Shinkansen it is about 50 minutes on the Kodama to Atami and about 1 hour 20 minutes on the Izukyu Line. From the station the hotel's free shuttle takes about 5 minutes and must be reserved; the listed station departures run from 2 to 4 p.m. A taxi also takes about 5 minutes. The hotel publishes no walking time.
Izu-Inatori STN · Izukyu Line (Odoriko limited express from Tokyo)
The hotel publishes no walking time.
Free shuttle by reservation, about 5 minutes; a taxi takes about the same.
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 at the front desk.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the refusal is on the hotel’s own hot spring page with the private open-air bath above it; the chain FAQ at itoenhotel.com/faq/ is the second sentence quoted and adds the private bath advice)
※刺青・タトゥーのある方の入浴をお断りいたします。 / 刺青・タトゥーなどを入れている方の、大浴場・露天風呂のご入浴は原則お断りしております。各部屋に備え付けのお風呂か、貸切風呂をご利用ください。
This is the rule for the shared baths. It doesn’t apply to the private baths.
Best for: travelers on a tight budget who want a private stone tub in the green for under ¥2,000
Private open-air bath: 3 to 10:30 p.m. and 6 to 9:15 a.m., 50 minutes, ¥1,650, reservation required at the front desk on the day. The rooms page lists Japanese and Western rooms only, with no room baths described.
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