Sengataki, near the Hoshino area Family resort hotel ★★★☆☆

Dormy Club Karuizawa

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Does Dormy Club Karuizawa allow tattoos? Bath of your own, not spring water

Bath of your own, not hot spring water

A small hotel in the Sengataki woods that has made itself over for families with babies, down to bath toys and a water thermometer, with two private baths bookable by the hour.

Two indoor private baths, one in cypress and one in stone, rent by the 40-minute slot, and a family takes one alone. Dormy Club publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Its FAQ says none of the water in the house, shared or private, is natural hot spring: it is Togoru-yu, an artificial mineral bath.

Where it is

Tokyo STN Hokuriku Shinkansen 1 h 06 Hotel location
Karuizawa 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.. Dormy Club Karuizawa · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Tokyo Wide Pass Covers the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tokyo as far as Karuizawa and Sakudaira. The buses to hotels outside the center are paid separately. 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 bath page and its FAQ post)

Read on: dormy-karuizawa.jp/bath.html

Best for: A family with small children who want a private bath and a hotel built around babies

Private baths: two, the same size, indoor not open-air, 2,200 yen per 40 minutes, slots starting on the hour from 15:00 to 23:00. Some plans include one. The FAQ, asked whether the baths are hot spring: 当館のお風呂は共用の内風呂・露天風呂、貸切風呂ともに天然温泉ではございませんが、温泉の効能のある人工温泉「トゴール湯」となっております。 Shared baths 15:00 to 9:30 the next morning, no swap between sides. Certified a Welcome Baby inn by Miki House; baby baths and bed guards lent free. No elevator.

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