Higashiyama, Yumoto Terayashiki, on the high ground over the strip Ryokan

Kutsurogijuku Chiyotaki

会津東山温泉くつろぎ宿千代滝

Does Kutsurogijuku Chiyotaki allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Chiyotaki stands high enough to see the whole Aizu basin from the top-floor bath, and rents the small bath downstairs by the 50-minute slot.

Same owner as Shintaki, same sentence: the large baths are closed to tattooed guests. Chiyotaki’s way around it is Fumoto-yu’s reserved bath, 1,500 yen for 50 minutes, booked ahead by phone or at the desk, with a shower, a tap and shampoo, which the group’s other reserved baths do not have. The tub holds two adults and the inn asks parties of three or more not to book it.

Show this at the front desk

当館の大浴場では全てのお客様の快適と安全・安心を維持するため、「泥酔のお客様」、「刺青（タトゥーを含む）の入ったお客様」のご利用は出来ません。

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. Kutsurogijuku Chiyotaki · 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 same 湯めぐり page, which names both inns)

Read on: kutsurogijuku.jp/privatebath.html

Best for: A small reserved bath with a real washing area, then the view of the castle town from the top floor

Reserved slots start on the hour from 15:00 to 23:00, and on holidays and long weekends also 06:00 to 10:50. The top-floor Yuzuki-no-yu view bath and its open-air bath, and the half-open-air bath at Fumoto-yu, are shared and closed to tattooed bathers. Dinner is a buffet of Aizu home cooking with more than 30 local sakes. Checkout is 11:00, later than most of the valley.

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Others in the same group

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Higashiyama Park Hotel ShinpugetsuHigashiyama, Yumoto Tsumori, on the road in from the samurai residences → Kutsurogijuku ShintakiHigashiyama, Yumoto Kawamukai, four minutes on foot from its sister inn Chiyotaki → MukaitakiHigashiyama, Kawamukai, on the far bank of the Yugawa a few minutes above the bus stop → Hanare MatsushimakakuHigashiyama, Takinoyu, the suite annex next door to Takinoyu → Shosuke no Yado TakinoyuHigashiyama, Takinoyu, beside the Fushimigataki falls → Irori no Yado AshinaHigashiyama, Yumoto Shimohara, at the upstream end of the strip →

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