Hotel Mukaitaki
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Does Hotel Mukaitaki allow tattoos? In a private bath
Hotel Mukaitaki reopened in February 2025 as nine rooms over the Arakawa, and every one has an open-air tub of source-flowing water on the balcony, in cypress, ceramic or granite.
Mukaitaki publishes no tattoo rule. All nine of its rooms have their own open-air tub of source-flowing hot spring water facing the river, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the room and skip the shared baths.
The bath
The water is an alkaline simple spring at 65°C. The hotel calls it a bath for the skin, leaving it moist and smooth, and lists it for autonomic imbalance, sleeplessness and low mood among other complaints, from joint and back pain to fatigue.
The rooms are the reason to come. Each of the nine has its own open-air tub on the balcony, fed with source-flowing water and facing the Arakawa gorge with nothing in the way. The tubs come in three materials: cypress, ceramic and granite. The 67-square-meter Japanese-Western rooms and the 98-square-meter suites both carry all three, and one cypress room is barrier-free.
There are shared baths too. Each side has a large indoor bath with windows on two walls over the stream, an open-air bath and a sauna; the men's open-air area has cypress, ceramic and reclining tubs, the women's a granite tub. They are open from 3 p.m. to midnight and from 5 to 10:30 a.m., the saunas until 11 p.m.
The hotel
Mukaitaki is an inn the hotel says has run for more than a hundred years, rebuilt as nine rooms and reopened in February 2025. The lobby is glass on one side with kumiko lattice screens. Dinner is served in nine private dining rooms named after places in Fukushima, and guests choose French or Japanese cooking at the restaurant Kyufuku. The smoking room is for heated tobacco only. Check-in 3 p.m., check-out 11 a.m.
Good to know
- Every room has an open-air tub, source-flowing, on a balcony over the river.
- The Tsuchiyu Onsen bus stop is steps away, about 40 minutes from Fukushima Station.
- French or Japanese dinner, served in a private dining room.
- One cypress-tub room is barrier-free, and the car park has an accessible space.
Getting there
From Fukushima Station, take the Fukushima Kotsu bus bound for Tsuchiyu Onsen from stand 7 at the east exit, about 40 minutes. Get off at Tsuchiyu Onsen; the hotel is a short walk from the stop. Taxis wait at the station. Drivers leave the Tohoku Expressway at Fukushima-Nishi and follow Route 115 toward Aizu-Wakamatsu, about 15 minutes; parking is free.
Tsuchiyu Onsen bus terminal · Fukushima Kotsu bus from Fukushima Station (east exit, stand 7)
A short walk from the stop.
Bus about 40 minutes from Fukushima Station; no shuttle.
Where it is
Tsuchiyu Onsen bus stop
- Tohoku Shinkansen 1 hr 35 min from Tokyo
- Fukushima Kotsu bus 42 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR East Pass from ¥35,000 · 5 or 10 consecutive days Covers the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Fukushima, the Yamabiko or the Tsubasa.
- 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.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site ()
Best for: couples who want a modern room with an open-air tub over the river and a choice of French or Japanese dinner
Nine rooms, all facing the Arakawa, each with a source-flowing open-air tub of cypress, ceramic or granite: Japanese-Western rooms of 67 square meters (one of them barrier-free) and Japanese modern suites of 98 square meters, for one to four people. The shared baths (a large bath and an open-air bath on each side, and a sauna on each side) are open 3 p.m. to midnight and 5 to 10:30 a.m.; the sauna closes at 11 p.m. Check-in 3 p.m., check-out 11 a.m. Free parking for 12 cars, one of them accessible.
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