Higashiyama, Yumoto, three minutes upstream of its sister inn Harataki Ryokan

Konjakutei

会津東山温泉今昔亭

Does Konjakutei allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A cooking inn with a deliberately small indoor bath, three grades of room bath above it, and a three-minute walk to its sister inn for anything larger.

Konjakutei carries two rules on its own site and they do not agree. The multilingual manners page refuses tattooed bathers outright and says fashion and religion make no difference; the hot spring page carries the sister inn’s wording, which allows foreign visitors with tattoos into the large bath. The way past both is the room: three grades come with a bath of their own, a hiba or stone view bath, an open-air tub in hiba or Shigaraki ware, or a Western tub plumbed with spring water, all free-flowing from the group’s own source.

Show this at the front desk

誠に申し訳ございませんが、当館では入れ墨（刺青）・タトゥーのあるお客様のご入浴はご遠慮頂いております。ファッション目的、宗教的理由による入れ墨であっても、他のお客様に不快な思いを与えてしまう恐れがありますので、何卒、ご理解・ご協力いただきますようよろしくお願いいたします。

The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.

Where it is

Sendai is the door to all of these. Akiu is 43 minutes on one bus from the station, with no change. Nyuto is the Komachi, JR’s Shinkansen across to Akita, as far as Tazawako, then a bus of 47 minutes, about 2 h 20 in all. Naruko is twelve minutes on the Shinkansen to Furukawa and three quarters of an hour up the Rikuu East line. Zao is the Senzan line rapid over the mountains to Yamagata, then a bus of 37 minutes up to the ski village. Hanamaki is the Yamabiko to Kitakami, one stop on the local line and a bus, about 2 h 10. Higashiyama is the long one: the Shinkansen to Koriyama, the Ban-etsu West line over to Aizu-Wakamatsu and the loop bus, nearly four hours with the waits, and easier from Tokyo. Konjakutei · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

What happens when you arrive

Skip the shared baths and reserve the private one the way this page describes. Once the door is closed, the bath is yours.

How we know

Confirmed from official site (the 温泉を楽しむルールとマナー block on /lang/, which contradicts the 温泉 page on the same site)

Read on: konjakutei.yumeguri.co.jp/lang/index.html

Best for: Dinner in a private room and a bath on the balcony, at a 25-room inn that keeps its indoor bath small on purpose

The hot spring page says instead: 当館では、外国人の観光客で、上記の理由でタトゥを入れている方については大浴場の利用を認めております。 The room page counts the bath grades itself: 自家源泉を贅沢に一人占めできる温泉付きの客室タイプはなんと3タイプ。 Konjakutei has no open-air bath of its own, so guests walk three minutes to Harataki, where the shared baths are free to them and the reserved view bath costs 2,200 yen for 50 minutes. Dinner is served in a private dining room or in the guest room, and the indoor bath is kept small so the water stays fresh.

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