Tattoo friendly onsen at Kawaguchiko

Hotel Koryu

ホテル湖龍

Tattoos are allowed in the large baths. The hotel’s own English FAQ answers the question with a plain yes and asks only that you keep to Japanese bathing etiquette, with the warning that guests who do not may be asked to stop using the baths. No seal and no size limit are mentioned. A private bath is there too if you want one: 3,300 yen, booked ahead.

Can I use the large bathroom even if I have tattoos? Yes, you can. However, please follow Japanese bathing etiquette. If you do not follow the bathing etiquette, we may ask you to refrain from using the baths.

Best for: Getting into a shared onsen bath above Lake Kawaguchi with nothing to cover

Large baths Shiraito and Otome, with a garden open-air bath, 15:00–24:00 and 5:30–9:30. The rooftop view open-air bath was closed after structural damage from the earthquake of 26 June 2026 and the hotel gives no reopening date; the large baths and the private bath are running as usual. Private bath 15:00–22:00, 3,300 yen; the Japanese bath page says 45 minutes, the English FAQ says 50. Day bathing is suspended. The hotel warns that rooms resold by third-party agents onto sites such as Agoda have been mislabeled as having a private open-air bath, and that such bookings must be changed or cancelled through the site used.

Izumi no Yu, Saiko

いずみの湯

Uncovered from 14:00 to 17:00 on every day it opens. Izumi no Yu calls those three hours its Tattoo Friendly Time: no extra charge and no booking. Outside them, tattooed bathers are asked to stay out unless a cover seal hides the tattoo, and in that case any hour is fine and the bathhouse sets no size limit. It says it plans to sell seals at the counter but has not started.

毎営業日 タトゥーフレンドリータイム 14:00 – 17:00 この時間帯は、タトゥーをお持ちの方も気兼ねなくご入浴いただけます。 追加料金・ご予約は不要 です。 日本の温泉文化の慣習に配慮し、 この時間帯以外はタトゥーをお持ちの方のご入浴をご遠慮いただいております 。ただし、 カバーシールでタトゥーを隠していただいた場合は、時間帯を問わずご入浴いただけます 。タトゥーの大きさによる制限は設けておりません。

Best for: An afternoon soak between 14:00 and 17:00 with no seal at all

Admission 900 yen on weekdays and 1,200 yen at weekends, holidays and set peak periods (children 4 to elementary school 500 / 600 yen, 3 and under free). Opening days and hours change with the season; the site sends you to its calendar and, while that is being built, to the phone. The page also asks tattooed bathers to be mindful around children and asks other bathers to go to staff rather than confront anyone. Run by HAMAYOU Resort, which also runs a hotel and a campground on the same lake.

Fuji Marriott Hotel Lake Yamanaka

富士マリオットホテル山中湖

Covered. The hotel refuses tattooed bathers in the large bath and the open-air bath unless two cover seals of 8 by 10 centimeters hide the tattoo; the FAQ tells you to ask the front desk. A tattoo bigger than that is the reason to book a Premier room, which has its own bathroom filled from the Yamanaka hot spring.

※タトゥー（入れ墨）を入れている方のご入浴はお断りしています。ただし、カバーシール（8cm×10cm）2枚でタトゥーを隠していただける場合のみご入浴可能です。詳しくはフロントにお問合せください。

Best for: Two small tattoos, or a Premier room with its own onsen tub

Seal size: 8 × 10 cm, two at most; the hotel does not say it supplies them. Large bath and open-air bath 6:00–10:00 and 13:30–24:00, men’s and women’s sides swapping daily; twice a month the afternoon session opens at 15:00. On busy nights the hotel caps the number of bathers each hour. The 21 Premier rooms (twin or king, 41.2 m²) have a bathroom with Yamanaka onsen water. Lake Yamanaka is about 30 minutes by road east of Lake Kawaguchi.

Kozantei Ubuya

湖山亭うぶや

Covered, within a limit. Ubuya turns tattooed guests away from its large bath in principle, but lets you in if two cover seals of 10 by 10 centimeters hide everything, and the front desk hands them out. A tattoo too big for two seals needs a room with its own open-air bath, which Ubuya sells in several grades.

入れ墨、タトゥーを入れている方の大浴場のご入浴は、原則お断りしております。 ただし、10cm×10cmのカバーシール2枚を貼って隠せる場合のみご入浴いただけます。 カバーシールはフロントにお申し付けください。

Best for: A guest with one or two small tattoos who wants the lakeside large bath

Seal size: 10 × 10 cm, two at most, from the front desk. The inn says every room looks at Mount Fuji across the lake; the rooms with an open-air bath are the imperial suite 501, the special room 401 and the open-air-bath Japanese rooms. Ubuya does not take day bathers, and the Q&A says spa treatments are closed to pregnant guests.

Ashiwada Hotel

足和田ホテル

Ashiwada Hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It has one private bath, for staying guests only, 45 minutes for 3,300 yen between 15:00 and 22:00. Book on the hotel’s own site and the first turn is free; with a single private bath, times go in order of request.

Best for: An inexpensive private bath at a quiet lakeside hotel

One private bath, 15:00–22:00, 45 minutes, 3,300 yen, staying guests only; the hotel says its window looks away from the lake toward the mountains, and that the tub is not large. Bookings on the official site get one free use. The large baths are natural hot spring water with water added and heated, with a sleeping bath, a sauna and a red-wine bath; renovated in 2017.

Fufu Kawaguchiko

ふふ 河口湖

Book any room and the bath is yours: Fufu says every room has an open-air bath laid with Mount Fuji lava stone and filled with natural hot spring water. It publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath, so treat that one as closed and use the bath on your terrace.

Best for: An onsen soak on your own terrace in a room built around it

The operator writes 全てのお部屋に露天風呂をご用意いたしました, and lists 富士溶岩の客室露天風呂 in every room type; the larger suites add a heated-stone bed and some an indoor bath. The spring is Nishikawa Onsen Reiho-no-yu, a sodium-calcium sulfate spring. Large bath 15:00–24:00 and 6:00–11:00, with a dry sauna for löyly on the men’s side and a mist sauna on the women’s. Its FAQ is a chat widget rather than a page, so there was no written rule to read.

Fuji Lake Hotel

富士レークホテル

Not the public baths: the hotel’s notice for overseas guests says people with tattoos may not use them. The private baths are not named in that sentence. The hinoki bath facing Mount Fuji is booked at the front desk on the day, and the special rooms each have an open-air bath of their own filled from the Kawaguchiko hot spring.

Persons with tattoos are not permitted to use the Public baths.

Best for: An open-air onsen bath on your own room’s balcony at a lakefront hotel

The rule is published in English only; the Japanese pages are silent. Private baths: the Fuji-view hinoki bath, 50 minutes, 3,850 yen, booked on the day at the front desk; and a lake-view barrier-free bath with a bathing hoist, four washing places and room for four or five, 60 minutes, 4,400 yen, booked in advance. Both are Kawaguchiko onsen water piped in. Private baths are not available before check-in or after check-out. Large bath 14:00–24:00 and 5:00–10:00. Outdoor pool in summer only.

Hotel Kaneyamaen

富士山温泉 ホテル鐘山苑

The shared baths are closed to tattooed guests, and Kaneyamaen says so twice on its onsen page. The way in is a room with its own open-air bath on the hotel’s hot spring. The Sanri rooms and the upper-floor Yuraku Yamabiko-tei rooms look at Mount Fuji from that bath; the first-floor Yamabiko-tei rooms look at the garden instead.

日本式の温泉入浴マナーを守れない方、入れ墨・タトゥーがある方のご入浴をお断りしております。

Best for: A Fuji-facing open-air onsen bath in your own room

Rooms with an onsen open-air bath: the Sanri rooms in the Seseragi-tei wing (renovated August 2024, with a lounge for their guests) and the Yuraku Yamabiko-tei rooms (12.5 tatami plus a sitting room; floors 2 and 3 face Mount Fuji, floor 1 faces the garden). An ordinary room gives no way to bathe. The large bath and open-air bath Akafuji face Mount Fuji. The hotel describes its spring as alkaline.

Kasuitei Ooya

花水庭 おおや

Ooya publishes no tattoo rule. It has a private view bath, 50 minutes for 3,300 yen and booked in advance, and rooms with their own open-air tub in hinoki or Shigaraki ware looking over the lake. Those room tubs are ordinary heated water on purpose: the inn says it chose not to use hot spring water so that guests who must avoid mineral water can bathe too.

Note: The room tubs are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The inn chose that on purpose, for guests who have to avoid mineral water.

Best for: A lake-view open-air tub on your own terrace, in plain hot water

The inn writes of its room baths: 温泉成分などの制限がある方にも安心してお入り頂ける様、あえて温泉にはしておりません (deliberately not hot spring water, so guests restricted from mineral water can use them safely). The hinoki open-air-bath rooms are on the top floor with a lake view; the Shigaraki tub is sized for one. Bettei Nagisa, one building over (opened May 2023), is a self-catering condominium with a semi-open-air bath facing the lake and no meals. Private view bath: 50 minutes, 3,300 yen, reservation required. Founded in 1923.

Kawaguchiko Onsenji Yumedono

河口湖温泉寺 夢殿

Nothing to ask here. Every one of Yumedono’s 24 rooms has its own open-air bath on the town’s hot spring, and breakfast and dinner are served in private dining rooms as well. The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and its pages describe no bath a guest would have to share.

Best for: A couple who want to bathe together and never meet another guest in a bath

24 rooms, from the open-air-bath twin and double rooms to named suites (Sakura, Aoi, Hikari, Shikibu, Yukari) and detached suites. The inn names the water as the blended Fujikawaguchiko No. 2 and No. 3 sources, a sodium-calcium chloride spring at 26.8°C at the source. Check-in 15:00 to 18:00, check-out 10:00. Children may stay; co-sleeping is limited to children aged three and under, no more than one per adult. The inn’s pages do not say which rooms face Mount Fuji.

Konansou

湖南荘

Konansou publishes no tattoo rule, so plan on a bath you do not share. It has a private bath on hot spring water, 50 minutes for 3,300 yen, booked at the front desk on the day, and two room types, Rin and Kohaku, with an open-air bath of their own on the same spring. In every other room the tub is ordinary heated water, which the inn says itself.

Note: Only the rooms named Rin and Kohaku have an open-air tub on the spring. In every other room the tub is ordinary heated water, not hot spring water; the inn says so.

Best for: Booking a Rin or Kohaku room for an onsen bath of your own

In the inn’s words: 客室の内風呂は温泉ではありません。大浴場・貸切風呂・足湯、露天風呂付客室（凛・琥珀）は温泉です。 That is, the ordinary in-room tubs are not hot spring water; the public bath, private bath, footbath and the open-air bath rooms Rin and Kohaku are. Private bath 3,300 yen for 50 minutes, same-day booking at the front desk, 15:00–23:00 and 7:00–9:00, starting on the hour. Breakfast is a buffet, and room-only stays are possible.

La Vista Fuji Kawaguchiko

ラビスタ富士河口湖

La Vista publishes no tattoo rule for this hotel, so do not count on the large bath. What it does have is four private baths on natural hot spring water, free, open 24 hours and never booked: a lit board shows which one is empty and you walk in. Any number of turns is free as long as one is free.

Best for: Using a private onsen bath as often as you like at no charge

Private baths: brick, stone, bamboo and mosaic tile, natural onsen, 24 hours except short cleaning closures, no reservations, free for repeat use; a chair-style hot-stone bath sits beside them and is also free. No towels at the baths: carry the bath basket left in your room. Large bath “Chozan-no-yu” 15:00–11:00 next morning, closed 2:00–4:00; the hotel notes the small outdoor bath on the men’s side is not hot spring water. Every room but the five Force rooms has a view bath at the window facing Mount Fuji; the hotel does not say what water fills it. Kyoritsu’s La Vista Kusatsu Hills publishes a rule pointing tattooed guests to its private baths; this property does not.

Ooike Hotel

富士山の見える温泉旅館 大池ホテル

Ooike publishes no tattoo rule on its own site. It has two private garden open-air baths, Enza-no-yu and Hojo-no-yu, and some rooms have a bath of their own with a view of Mount Fuji. The hotel says the private open-air baths are not hot spring water.

Note: The private open-air baths are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The hotel says so.

Best for: Families with small children who want a bath to themselves

Private garden open-air baths Enza-no-yu and Hojo-no-yu: the hotel writes 貸切露天風呂は温泉ではありません (the private open-air baths are not hot spring water); the bath page gives no price. The fifth-floor large bath faces Mount Fuji; the garden open-air baths Seseragi-no-yu and Komorebi-no-yu swap between men and women. The top-floor special room and the open-air-bath Japanese-Western rooms have a room bath with a Fuji view. Both changing rooms have baby beds, and baby soap is lent. Shuttle to Kawaguchiko STN.

Shuhokaku Kogetsu

秀峰閣 湖月

Kogetsu publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private open-air baths, Koko and Gekko, with a view of Mount Fuji, at 3,300 yen for 50 minutes; they are for staying guests only and are booked after you arrive. The third-floor corner terrace rooms have an open-air onsen bath of their own.

Best for: A Fuji-view private open-air bath booked on arrival

Private baths Koko and Gekko: 3,300 yen per group for 50 minutes, 14:30–21:30 (last session ends 22:20) and 6:00–8:30 (ends 9:20), staying guests only, no advance bookings. The large open-air baths, Akafuji for women and Kurofuji for men, face the lake with Mount Fuji beyond and do not swap. The inn says every room looks at Mount Fuji; several room types have an onsen footbath on the balcony, and the third-floor corner terrace rooms have an onsen open-air bath. Kogetsu posts a warning about bookings made through some overseas travel sites.

The Kukuna (THE KUKUNA)

The Kukuna publishes no tattoo rule and lists no private bath. The way to bathe alone is one of the two terrace room types in its Tenku no Terrace building, which come with a water terrace holding an onsen open-air bath, a footbath and a reclining bath. The other room types have a shower booth or a jacuzzi tub, not an onsen bath.

Best for: An onsen bath, footbath and reclining bath on your own lakeside terrace

Rooms with the water terrace (ウォーターテラス付（温泉露天風呂、足湯、寝湯付）): the Superior Terrace Room (50 m², 2 guests) and the Corner Terrace Room (57 m²), both in the Tenku no Terrace building. The Superior and Deluxe rooms in the central building list a shower booth; some Plaza wing rooms list a jacuzzi bath. The large baths, Ozora-no-yu Hoshi and Tsuki, swap between men and women late at night; saunas 15:00–22:00 and 5:00–10:00. Reservations by internet only.

Toki Yuyu Rakuyu

時悠々 楽游

Rakuyu publishes no tattoo rule. It has a private bath on hot spring water, Tenku, with two rooms on the fourth floor looking over the lake, 45 minutes for 3,300 yen, booked on the day in order of arrival. The rooms with a view bath or ceramic tub use ordinary heated water, and the inn says so under each room.

Note: The tubs in the Yuyu-an and Suimei-an rooms are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The inn says so under each room.

Best for: A lake-view private onsen bath at a small hillside inn

Private bath Tenku (Hoshi no Matataki and Tsuki no Akari, main building 4F): 15:00–22:00, 45 minutes, 3,300 yen, booked on the day in order of arrival. The Yuyu-an rooms (view bath) and Suimei-an rooms (ceramic tub and terrace) carry the note お部屋のお風呂は温泉ではございません: the room bath is not hot spring water. The entrance and front desk are on the third floor and there is no elevator, so every move between floors is by stairs.

Wakakusa no Yado Maruei

若草の宿 丸栄

Not the shared baths, and a seal does not change that: Maruei says its refusal includes stickers. The same notice sends tattooed guests to the bath in their own room or to the paid private bath on the top floor, Fuyo-no-yu, which the inn says looks at Mount Fuji. It is booked in person on the day, in order of arrival, so check in early if you want an evening slot.

入墨・タトゥーをされている方、オムツをされている方は、大浴場・露天風呂のご利用をお断りいたします お部屋のお風呂もしくは有料の貸切展望風呂でのご入浴をお願いいたします

Best for: A Fuji-view private bath at a modest price, 1,650 yen a turn

Private bath Fuyo-no-yu: 30 minutes, 1,650 yen per group, up to four people, 15:00–22:00 and 8:10–10:00, same-day booking at the inn in order of arrival; no advance or phone bookings. The onsen page states the refusal as covering tattoos “including stickers” (入墨・タトゥー(シール含む)). Maruei does not take bath-only visitors. From 1 October 2026 check-in moves to 15:00 and check-out to 11:00. The special floor Nonohana-tei has five rooms.