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Wajoen, Itoyanagi annex

糸柳別館 離れの邸 和穣苑

Does Wajoen, Itoyanagi annex allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Wajoen is the annex of Itoyanagi, built as a set of rooms each with an open-air bath, one of them a two-floor maisonette where the bath and a lounge take up the whole ground floor.

Wajoen publishes no tattoo rule. Every room on its room page has its own open-air bath, several in detached wings, so staying here means never needing the shared bath.

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.. Wajoen, Itoyanagi annex · 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 inn’s rooms page describes each room’s open-air bath)

Read on: wajoen.jp/rooms.html

Best for: A detached room with an open-air bath of your own

Rooms include Kinpu, Fuefuki and Oshuku as detached wings, Togen and Kaikoma with a wooden deck bath, Kentoku for two, and a two-floor maisonette with the open-air bath and a lounge downstairs and the bedroom upstairs; most hold up to four. The inn runs its spring water through an activated-stone filtering and heating system for the ground-floor room baths and the shared baths, and calls the result 活性石温泉; it is not described as free-flowing.

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