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Hotel Sekifu

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Does Hotel Sekifu allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Hotel Sekifu papered its rooms in William Morris prints, and in the garden-side ones the spring bath is a private bath kept for that room alone, while the room itself has just a shower.

Sekifu says nothing about tattoos. Several room types come with a spring bath of their own: in the garden-side M type it is a private bath reserved for that room, which opened in December 2022, and other types have a semi-open-air bath or an indoor family bath in the suite.

Where it is

Shinjuku STN Kaiji, JR’s limited express on the Chuo line 1 h 38 Tokyo STN Hotel location
Isawa-Onsen STN
Everything here is reached from Tokyo. Karuizawa is an hour on the Hokuriku Shinkansen and Echigo-Yuzawa 79 minutes on the Joetsu Shinkansen, both with no change. Kawaguchiko is the Fuji Excursion from Shinjuku, about two hours, and Isawa the Kaiji, an hour and forty. The Nagano towns change once: Bessho at Ueda, Nozawa at Iiyama, and Yudanaka, Hakuba and Myoko at Nagano.. Hotel Sekifu · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

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 hot spring page and rooms page describe each room bath)

Read on: hotel-sekifu.co.jp/rooms/

Best for: Western-style rooms with William Morris wallpaper and a spring bath of their own

Room types with their own bath: garden-side M type with a private bath for the room (the room itself has a shower only), M type with semi-open-air bath, M suite with an indoor family bath and massage chair, and M suite with semi-open-air bath and massage chair. The hotel uses William Morris wallpaper and carpeted floors in these rooms. Fifteen minutes on foot from Isawa-Onsen Station.

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