Karuizawa Hotel Soyokaze
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Does Karuizawa Hotel Soyokaze allow tattoos? In a private bath
At a hotel built around traveling with pets, one room type has a bathroom that opens into a semi-open-air bath facing the Yatsugatake range.
Book the Annex Comfort Double: the hotel has no family bath and its FAQ sends families to this room, whose bathroom opens as a semi-open-air bath toward the Yatsugatake range. The shared bath has no published tattoo rule. Nothing at Soyokaze is hot spring water; the FAQ says the shared bath is not onsen and uses radium ore and Towada stone.
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 room page and FAQ)
Read on: hotelsoyokaze.com/guestroom/
Best for: A guest traveling with a dog or cat who wants a bath with a view in the room
Annex Comfort Double: 36 m² plus a 6.3 m² terrace, first or second floor facing south, a queen-size double, up to four with an extra bed. Dogs, cats, birds and other pets stay in the room. The shared bath, Soyokaze-no-yu, runs 6:00–11:00 and 15:00–24:00. The FAQ, asked whether the bath is hot spring: 温泉ではございませんが、天然のラジウム鉱石や十和田石を使用しております。 The building is on a slope with many stairs and no elevator.
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