Meitei no Yado Hotel Koshien
銘庭の宿 ホテル甲子園
Does Meitei no Yado Hotel Koshien allow tattoos? In a private bath
Hotel Koshien has only sixteen rooms, and in 2025 it opened one with a pool, a sauna and an open-air bath all to itself.
No tattoo rule is published. Half of the sixteen rooms have their own open-air or semi-open-air bath, and there are two private open-air baths for everyone else: Toryu, 40 minutes free, and Ojiro, 1,500 yen for 40 minutes, booked the same day on the tablet you get at check-in.
Where it is
Shinjuku STN
Kaiji, JR’s limited express on the Chuo line 1 h 38
Tokyo STN
Hotel locationIsawa-Onsen STN
JR Tokyo Wide Pass Covers the Kaiji from Shinjuku to Isawa-Onsen; the pass area runs as far as Kofu. Worth it if Kawaguchiko, Karuizawa or Echigo-Yuzawa is also on the trip. Sold on Klook.
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, bath structure rather than a tattoo policy (the facility page lists each room with its bath; the hot spring page sets out the private baths)
Read on: hotel-koushien.jp/facility.html
Best for: A sixteen-room inn where half the rooms have their own open-air bath
Sixteen rooms: seven 10-mat Japanese rooms without a private tub, Tenjin, Tenmoku, Yashajin and Shosenkyo with an open-air bath, the barrier-free Fuefuki with an open-air bath, the Kinpu luxury suite with open-air bath and sauna, Misaka and Akadake suites with a semi-open-air bath, and Motosu with an all-cypress indoor bath. A new room, Fuurin, opened in January 2025 with its own pool, sauna and open-air bath. Private open-air baths 16:00–23:00; a third private bath, Mizugaki, is closed for works. The inn also has private rock-sauna rooms and two private saunas. Shared baths 15:00–24:00 and 6:00–9:30.
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