Kinugawa Plaza Hotel
鬼怒川プラザホテル
Does Kinugawa Plaza Hotel allow tattoos? In a private bath
Kinugawa Plaza Hotel put its private baths in a separate wooden building in the woods, ten of them, with a tatami rest area and deck chairs.
Kinugawa Plaza publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath. A few minutes’ walk from the main building, Hoozukitei holds ten private open-air baths at 3,630 yen and up for 50 minutes per room, and several room types, the renovated Sui rooms among them, have an open-air tub with unmixed spring water running through it.
What the hotel says about its baths
ご宿泊のお客様専用です。 ご利用時間/15時～ 料金/50分1部屋3,630円（税込）～ 風呂数/10室
The operator’s own wording.
The bath
The large baths use the hotel's own source, Takara-no-yu, which it says flows at about 300 liters a minute at around 53 degrees and belongs to the old Taki Onsen where the town began. The spring is listed as weakly alkaline and low-tension, for chronic skin complaints and hardening of the arteries among others. The men's hall Tono-no-yu has one indoor tub, one open-air bath and a sauna, run straight from the source; the women's Hime-no-yu has an indoor tub, two open-air baths, one of them a round jacuzzi, and a sauna. Hours are 14:00 to 10:00 the next morning. A resting tub, Horeki, stands by the entrance hall. The hotel does not say the halls swap.
Hoozukitei, the forest bath, is a detached building a few minutes' walk from the main one with ten private open-air baths, deck chairs, a wide tatami rest room and lanterns at night. It is for hotel guests, from 15:00, 50 minutes a party, from ¥3,630. A second building on the riverbank, Akebi, has ten more private rooms with two source-fed open-air tubs each, run for day visitors 10:00 to 24:00, 60 minutes from ¥3,800. Several room types have spring water of their own: the nine eighth-floor Sui rooms, rebuilt in 2023 and winter 2025 with a square or round open-air tub and now an indoor bath on the spring too; the three Sansui Setsugekka special rooms with cypress tubs over the river; and the corner suites Hannari (two, one with a granite view bath and one with a jacuzzi) and Fuwari (one, granite).
The hotel
A big hotel on the west bank with about 190 rooms across floors four to twelve, from standard Japanese rooms and the Akari rooms built out over a rock shelf above the gorge to the Yukuri Western rooms, the Ikoi double rooms and an Oriental suite renewed in winter 2025. Dinner is a buffet in one of four dining rooms or a Japanese set served in the room on many plans, with a Tochigi wagyu steak as an upgrade. There are a banquet hall for 600, a lounge, a club, a summer pool, a games room and a free internet corner. Parking takes 200 cars and 20 coaches.
Good to know
- Ten private baths in a building of their own, Hoozukitei, a few minutes' walk through the trees, with deck chairs and tatami mats to rest on.
- Many plans include a free 50-minute Hoozukitei slot, so check the plan name before paying separately.
- The dial bus leaves when your train arrives; tell the driver the hotel name and board just right of the station exit.
- A second private-bath house, Akebi, takes day visitors, ten rooms with two source-fed tubs each, booked on its own phone line.
Getting there
Tobu limited expresses from Asakusa reach Kinugawa-Onsen Station in about 2 hours. Outside the station turn right for the Nikko Kotsu dial bus, which leaves when the trains arrive and circles the hotels; tell the driver you are staying at the Plaza. Taxis wait at the station and the fare is about one meter plus one tick. On foot it is 1.4 km, about 20 minutes: go north 800 m, cross the Fureai footbridge and turn right for 350 m.
Kinugawa-Onsen STN · Tobu Kinugawa line (limited expresses from Asakusa)
About 20 minutes, 1.4 km over the Fureai footbridge.
Dial bus from the stop right of the station exit; taxi about one meter plus one.
Where it is
Kinugawa-Koen STN
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Tokyo Wide Pass ¥16,000 · 3 days Worth it if you’re also traveling around Tokyo on JR.
- Nikko Pass All Area ¥8,000 · 4 days Worth it if you’re coming from Asakusa. It covers the Tobu line from Asakusa and back, and Tobu trains and buses around Kinugawa and Nikko.
- Nikko classic day tour Toshogu Shrine, the Irohazaka hairpins, Lake Chuzenji and Kegon Falls, from Tokyo.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
Use the bath in your room, or reserve a private bath.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site (the Hoozukitei private-bath page and the room page)
Best for: Groups who want to book several private baths at once in a building of their own
Room types with spring-fed tubs: 源泉かけ流し露天風呂付客室「翠」 (renovated winter 2025, square or round tubs, 8th floor, 9 rooms), 露天風呂付特別室「山水雪月華」 with cypress tubs, and the view-bath corner suites Hannari and Fuwari. Plans are sold with a free 50-minute Hoozukitei slot. The large bath uses the hotel’s Takara-no-yu source.
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