Le Grand Karuizawa Hotel & Resort
ルグラン軽井沢ホテル＆リゾート
Does Le Grand Karuizawa Hotel & Resort allow tattoos? In a private bath
One bath at this resort is yours alone: a viewing bath with a big window on Mount Asama, sold to one group each day and filled with ordinary heated water rather than the spring.
The private option is one viewing bath with Mount Asama in its window, rented to a single group a day for 3,300 yen and booked by phone. It is ordinary water, not hot spring, and the hotel says so. The resort’s hot spring baths, KOMOREBI for guests and the Happu Onsen day bath, are shared, and their pages publish no tattoo rule. Le Grand Kyu-Karuizawa, the same group’s hotel in town, refuses tattoos outright, so do not read the silence here as a yes.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Hokuriku Shinkansen 1 h 06
Karuizawa STN
Hotel location
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 resort’s onsen page, 展望風呂 block)
Read on: legrand-karuizawaresort.jp/hotspring/
Best for: A family that wants one private bath with Asama in view and can book the day’s only slot
Viewing bath 8:00–19:00, 3,300 yen, one group a day, staying guests only, by phone. In the operator’s words: ※こちらは温泉ではございません。 KOMOREBI (sodium bicarbonate, guests only, 6:00–10:00 and 15:00–24:00) and Happu Onsen (10:00–22:00, last entry 21:15; adults 1,500 yen, 1,800 yen at peak times, free for resort guests) are both shared. The KOMOREBI sauna has been suspended since 13 June. Le Grand Kyu-Karuizawa prints 刺青・タトゥをされている方、過度の飲酒をされている方のご利用は固くお断りいたします。 on its own bath page; that line does not appear on this resort’s pages.
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