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Hotel Kaneyamaen

富士山温泉 ホテル鐘山苑

Does Hotel Kaneyamaen allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Kaneyamaen is in Fujiyoshida, away from the lake, and it tells you which of its open-air-bath rooms see Mount Fuji and which see only its Japanese garden, floor by floor.

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.

Show this at the front desk

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。

The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.

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.. Hotel Kaneyamaen · 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 (the hotel’s onsen page for the refusal; its room pages for the room baths)

Read on: kaneyamaen.com/onsen/

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.

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