Inatori Tokai Hotel Yuen
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Does Inatori Tokai Hotel Yuen allow tattoos? In a private bath
Tokai Hotel Yuen is Inatori’s bath showpiece, with a coral-lined sauna and a boat-shaped tub on the roof, and it says no to tattoos in plain words. The rooms with their own open-air tubs are where a tattooed guest bathes.
The hotel firmly refuses bathers with tattoos; the sentence stands in its day-use bathing notice. The dependable way to bathe here is a room with its own tub, and the hotel has several: open-air bath twins on the upper floors, a junior suite, and half-open-air rooms it says are 100 percent free-flowing. It also rents two private open-air baths, but its refusal does not say they are exempt, so ask before booking one.
The bath
The rooms with their own tubs come in several kinds. On the sixth and seventh floors, twin rooms were rebuilt with an open-air bath on the ocean side. A corner junior suite and a Japanese room called Aomi have open-air baths fed with natural spring water. Rooms 506 and 507, one in Asian modern style and one in Japanese modern, have half-open-air baths, and so do some standard rooms; the hotel says those half-open-air tubs are 100 percent free-flowing, and some are Shigaraki ceramic.
Two private open-air baths are rented by reservation. Kaishuen is on the top floor, a boat-shaped tub under a pavilion roof looking over the open sea, at ¥3,000 plus tax for 50 minutes. Nagisa is on the first floor at the water's edge, where you hear the waves from the tub, at ¥2,000 plus tax. Day visitors cannot reserve them ahead.
The shared baths are extensive: a view open-air bath and a panoramic indoor bath, a walking bath, a waterfall bath, a domed sauna lined with coral at 91°C with a 20°C plunge, lie-down baths, an herb bath, a rock bath and a cave bath. Day-use bathing runs from 2 to 9 p.m., last entry 8 p.m., for 60 minutes, at ¥1,000 on weekdays and more on weekends and peak days.
The hotel
A large hotel on the Inatori shore that styles its sea-view rooms after cabins on a slow passenger ship. Standard rooms are the base, with the open-air and half-open-air bath rooms above them. Its beauty and relaxation room, Bisen, has bedrock bathing, massage chairs and facial steamers using spring water, open to certain guests only. The smaller inn SAZANA next door is run by the same company. Phone reception is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Good to know
- The refusal is firm, so book a room with its own tub and plan around that.
- Half-open-air room tubs are free-flowing, by the hotel's own description.
- Ask before reserving Kaishuen or Nagisa; the page does not say tattooed guests may use them.
- The free shuttle from the station must be reserved ahead.
Getting there
The hotel gives about 2 hours 20 minutes from Tokyo to Izu-Inatori Station on the direct Odoriko limited express. By Shinkansen it is about 50 minutes on the Kodama to Atami and about 70 minutes onward on the Ito and Izukyu lines. From the station it is about 15 minutes on foot. A free shuttle bus also runs, but it must be reserved in advance.
Izu-Inatori STN · Izukyu Line (Odoriko limited express from Tokyo)
About 15 minutes.
Free shuttle bus from the station by advance 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
Confirmed from official site (the refusal is in the day-use section of the hot spring page; the rooms page lists the rooms with open-air and half-open-air baths)
入れ墨・タトゥーの入ってる方のご入浴は、固くお断りいたします。
This is the rule for the shared baths. It doesn’t apply to the private baths.
Best for: travelers who will pay for a room with a ceramic open-air tub facing Sagami Bay and leave the big baths alone
Rooms with a tub: renovated ocean-view twins with an open-air bath on the sixth and seventh floors, a corner junior suite and a Japanese room, Aomi, with open-air baths, and Japanese-Western and standard rooms with a half-open-air bath, some in Shigaraki ceramic. Private open-air baths: Kaishuen, boat-shaped on the top floor, 50 minutes for ¥3,000 plus tax, and Nagisa, at the water’s edge on the first floor, ¥2,000 plus tax, both by reservation. Whether tattooed guests may use those two is not settled by the page.
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