Kawaguchi, on the north side of Lake Kawaguchi Small luxury ryokan, every room with an open-air onsen bath ★★★★☆

Fufu Kawaguchiko

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Does Fufu Kawaguchiko allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The tubs at Fufu are set in Mount Fuji lava stone, one on every room’s terrace, and they run on the Nishikawa Onsen spring the hotel calls Reiho-no-yu.

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.

Where it is

Shinjuku STN Fuji Excursion, JR Chuo line and the Fujikyu line 1 h 56 Tokyo STN Hotel location
Kawaguchiko 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.. Fufu Kawaguchiko · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

Fuji Excursion train tickets Reserved seats on the limited express from Shinjuku straight through to Kawaguchiko, about two hours with no change. The trains fill up, so book ahead. 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, not a tattoo policy (the hotel’s onsen and room pages)

Read on: fufukawaguchiko.jp/hotspring/

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.

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