Yumori Onsen Hostel
Does Yumori Onsen Hostel allow tattoos? In a private bath
Yumori is a 30-room hostel in Tsuchiyu with dormitory bunks, a shared kitchen and four private baths rented by the hour, from a white-tiled tub at ¥1,500 to a cypress half-open-air bath at ¥4,000.
Yumori calls its hot spring tattoo-friendly, and its day-trip page says how that works: a guest with tattoos books one of the four private baths and bathes alone. The welcome is worded around the private baths, so book one rather than counting on the large shared bath.
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Yumoriは タトゥーをした人も安心してご利用いただける「Tattoo-Friendly（タトゥー・フレンドリー）」の温泉です / Yumoriでは、タトゥー・フレンドリーの方でも貸切風呂をご利用いただくことでプライベートな空間で安心して温泉をお楽しみいただけます。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The water is Tsuchiyu's own, a spring the hostel puts at 60°C and alkaline, cooled for bathing with spring water from the mountain. The hostel lists it for high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, rheumatism, neuralgia, skin complaints, women's complaints and cold sensitivity, and calls it a bath for the skin. The large bath is open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. for staying guests, and the men's and women's sides are sometimes swapped. Day visitors can bathe from 11 a.m., with earlier closing on Saturdays and no day use on Thursdays or the first Monday.
The private baths are the reason to come. There are four, all fed from the source, and each is rented for an hour by reservation. Ren and Ran are white-tiled indoor tubs at ¥1,500 and ¥2,000. Kaede, at ¥3,000, is a cypress tub with a barrier-free layout for wheelchair users. Tsubaki, at ¥4,000, pairs a cypress half-open-air tub with a black-tiled indoor one, and the hostel calls it the most popular. Day visitors pay the bath admission on top, and the private baths take day bookings from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The hotel
Yumori is a hostel of 30 rooms in six types: Japanese tatami rooms, bed-and-tatami rooms, group and family rooms, a Universal Suite for up to five with its own source-fed cypress bath, and mixed and women-only dormitories of up to ten beds. Most rooms share the large bath and shower rooms. Stays are room only, with breakfast and dinner sold as options, a shared kitchen and a lounge cafe. Its own pages call it Fukushima's first hot spring hostel, run under the Sansuiso name.
Good to know
- Four private baths from ¥1,500 an hour, booked ahead by reservation.
- Kaede is built for wheelchair users, a cypress tub on a barrier-free floor.
- Free car from Fukushima Station's west exit at 2:30 p.m., booked three days ahead.
- Room only, with a shared kitchen, and breakfast or dinner as options.
Getting there
From Fukushima Station's east exit, take the route bus to the Tsuchiyu Onsen terminal, about 45 minutes, then walk about 5 minutes. The hostel runs a free car from the west exit at 2:30 p.m., about 40 minutes, which must be booked three days ahead. A taxi from the west exit takes about 30 minutes. Drivers leave the Tohoku Expressway at Fukushima-Nishi and follow Route 115 for about 15 minutes; parking is free.
Tsuchiyu Onsen bus terminal · Fukushima Kotsu bus from Fukushima Station (east exit)
About 5 minutes from the bus terminal.
Free car from Fukushima Station's west exit at 2:30 p.m., about 40 minutes, booked three days ahead.
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, or reserve a private bath.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the hostel's hot spring page and its day-trip page, which ties the tattoo welcome to the private baths)
Best for: travelers on a budget who want an hour alone in a source-fed private bath, overnight or on a day trip
Four private baths, each rented for 60 minutes by reservation: Ren (white indoor tub, ¥1,500), Ran (white indoor tub, ¥2,000), Kaede (cypress indoor tub, wheelchair accessible, ¥3,000) and Tsubaki (a cypress half-open-air tub and a black-tiled indoor tub, ¥4,000). Day visitors pay the bath admission on top. The large bath is open to staying guests from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Day-use hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (out by 7 p.m.), and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays (out by 4 p.m.); day use is closed every Thursday and the first Monday of the month. Rooms are sold without meals, with breakfast and dinner as options and a shared kitchen; the Universal Suite has its own source-fed cypress bath. Check-in 3 to 9:30 p.m., check-out 10 a.m.
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