Senoumi
石花海
Does Senoumi allow tattoos? In a private bath
Senoumi pumps 83°C water from 50 meters under its own floor, tinted faintly brown by iron and manganese. The top-floor shared baths are closed to tattoos, so the inn’s room tubs and one private bath do the work.
The inn asks bathers with tattoos to stay out of its shared baths; the English line on the same notice names the public baths. That leaves the private bath, a half-open-air tub on the mountain side at ¥3,300 for 50 minutes by reservation, and the rooms with their own open-air bath, which the inn says are 100 percent free-flowing.
Show this at the front desk
当館では、すべてのお客様に安心してご利用いただける環境を提供するため、刺青（タトゥー）をされている方のご入浴はご遠慮いただいております。 / We kindly ask that individuals with tattoos refrain from using the public baths.
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
Several room types have an open-air bath on the ocean side, and the inn states that the room tubs, like everything else here, are filled only with its own source and left to overflow. Type C is a Japanese room with an open-air bath and type D a special room. Type G, called Aoi, is a renovated corner room themed on the color blue, with double-size twin beds and a roofed open-air tub modeled on Izu stone. The photos show a dark stone-edged tub on a timber deck with a lamp, two reclining chairs and the sea filling the opening.
The private bath is separate: a half-open-air tub on the mountain side of the building. It takes one group for 50 minutes at ¥3,300, by reservation, between 3 and 10 p.m.
The water rises inside the building from 50 meters down, at 83°C and 150 liters a minute. Iron, manganese and other minerals give it a light brown tint, and the inn says it warms you to the core. The shared baths are on the top floor, an indoor and an open-air tub on each side with a wide view of sea and sky, open from 2 to 11:30 p.m. and 5:30 to 9:30 a.m.; men's and women's sides change over.
The hotel
A seaside inn with tatami laid through the whole building: you take your shoes off at the entrance, under a heart-shaped window on the sea. All rooms face the ocean. Wi-Fi is free in rooms, the lounge and the dining rooms. Check-in is from 3 to 6 p.m. and check-out at 10 a.m. A free car park is 3 to 4 minutes away on foot and a paid one, ¥1,000 a night, is directly in front. A small shop is about 3 minutes away and a supermarket about 10.
Good to know
- Reserve the private bath: ¥3,300 for 50 minutes, evenings from 3 to 10 p.m.
- Room tubs are 100 percent source water, by the inn's own description.
- Shoes off at the door; the whole inn is tatami mats.
- The free shuttle leaves the station at 2, 2:40, 3:30, 4:40 and 5:30 p.m.
Getting there
Take the Odoriko limited express from Tokyo to Izu-Inatori Station, or the Shinkansen to Atami and change to the Ito and Izukyu lines. From the station the inn is about 5 minutes by car or about 15 minutes on foot. Its free minibus leaves the station's minibus bay, up to the right of the ticket gate, at 2, 2:40, 3:30, 4:40 and 5:30 p.m. Reserve by phone or email by noon on the day; without a reservation you ride only if seats are free.
Izu-Inatori STN · Izukyu Line (Odoriko limited express from Tokyo)
About 15 minutes.
Free minibus from the station at five set times between 2 and 5:30 p.m.; reserve by noon.
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
Confirmed from official site (the bathing notice on the hot spring page, in Japanese and English; the FAQ gives the private bath and the rooms page the rooms with open-air baths)
Best for: travelers who want a room tub of rust-tinted source water with the sea straight ahead
Private bath: one, half-open-air, facing the hillside, ¥3,300 for 50 minutes a group, by reservation, 3 to 10 p.m. Rooms with an open-air bath include the type C Japanese room, the type D special room and the blue-themed type G corner room with a roofed tub. The spring carries iron and manganese and is slightly brown. Day-use bathing in the shared baths is ¥1,500, 2 to 8 p.m., and the tattoo notice applies to it.
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