Isawa Onsen, Kubonakajima, south of the station Hotel ★★★☆☆

Hotel Sekitei

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Does Hotel Sekitei allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Sekitei put its best bath on the roof, an all-cypress open-air tub it rents by the 40 minutes.

Sekitei says nothing about tattoos. On the roof of the main building is an all-cypress private open-air bath with a view, 3,000 yen before tax for 40 minutes, reserved ahead.

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 Sekitei · 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 hotel’s onsen page)

Read on: hotel-sekitei.co.jp/onsen/

Best for: A rooftop cypress bath on a budget room rate

The shared view bath and open-air bath are open 24 hours and swap between men and women. The hotel calls its water free-flowing. Main-building rooms have no bath or shower of their own; new-building rooms have a bath and shower.

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