Meiseki no Yado Kagetsu
銘石の宿 かげつ
Does Meiseki no Yado Kagetsu allow tattoos? In a private bath
Every Japanese-style room at Kagetsu has a bath on hot spring water, and from the ground-floor rooms you can feed the koi in a garden the inn built out of boulders collected across Japan.
Kagetsu publishes no tattoo rule. It does promise that the bath in every Japanese-style room is filled with hot spring water, usable 24 hours, so any of those rooms gives you a spring bath nobody else shares. Two room types go further, with an open-air or semi-open-air bath facing the garden.
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 inn’s rooms page, under 客室風呂は全室温泉)
Read on: isawa-kagetsu.com/rooms/
Best for: A spring-water bath in any Japanese-style room, not just the expensive ones
Room types: Naka-no-den with open-air bath (10 + 6 mats and a sitting room, 2–6 guests), Higashi-den with a hot spring semi-open-air bath and terrace (12 + 6 mats, renovated in 2021), and plain Naka-no-den, Higashi-den, Minami-den and Nishi-den Japanese rooms. The 10-mat and 8-mat Western twins have a toilet but the bath is outside the room, so they do not count. The shared rock baths are open 24 hours with no cleaning break; sauna to 22:00 and from 6:00. Day bathing only as part of a meal plan. Ground-floor rooms can feed the koi in the garden pond.
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