Karuizawa Hotel Longing House
軽井沢ホテル ロンギングハウス
Does Karuizawa Hotel Longing House allow tattoos? Bath of your own, not spring water
Ten open-air baths, each with its own changing room, added in 2019. The hotel says outright they are well water and not a hot spring.
Longing House publishes no tattoo rule, and its bath page lists no shared bath for one to apply to. Its ten private open-air baths are the bathing here, and a staying guest takes one alone. The hotel says plainly that they are not hot spring water: they run on well water through a 24-hour circulation system.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Hokuriku Shinkansen 1 h 06
Hotel locationKaruizawa STN
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)
Read on: longinghouse.jp/bath/
Best for: An open-air soak for two with no stranger in the water, on ordinary well water
Ten private open-air baths, each about 20 m² with its changing room, the tub sized for two, no indoor tub. 15:00–23:00 and 8:00–11:00. No advance booking: you give a preferred time at check-in, and the hotel warns there is no refund or substitute if none is free. Currently 45 minutes free as an opening campaign for the new wing. Some come with a stone sauna bed (ganbanyoku). In the operator’s words: ※温泉ではございません。 Every room also has its own bath and toilet.
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