Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Kinugawa Kanko Hotel
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Does Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Kinugawa Kanko Hotel allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Two paid private baths sit beside eight shared tubs here, and one of them comes with a bedrock sauna room for two, which is rare in a Kinugawa hotel.
Tattoos are allowed in the large baths only if the hotel’s own paid cover seals hide them completely, and the group’s bath rules cap that at two seals. Anything bigger means the private baths: Kinu-no-yu with a half-open-air tub, or Nikko-no-yu with its own bedrock sauna room, 90 minutes for 4,400 yen, booked at the front desk on the day.
Show this at the front desk
※入れ墨・タトゥーのある方は大浴場をご利用いただけません。ただし、当館指定のカバーシール（有料）を貼って、入れ墨、タトゥーが完全に覆える場合に限り、大浴場をご利用いただけます
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The water is an alkaline simple spring, which the hotel says it dilutes, heats and recirculates. Its posted uses are nerve complaints, sleeplessness and low mood. Two large bath halls sit two floors below the lobby and swap between men and women, so an overnight guest can try all eight tubs. Keicho-no-yu opens with a rock bath built against a wall of boulders and has two open-air tubs facing the river, Ryuo-no-yu and Isari-no-yu, with a view of the Fureai footbridge and the painted-demon staircase. Kirifuri-no-yu has water falling between rocks and a row of four tubs along the river windows: Iroha-no-yu, the wide Kegon-no-yu, Omiya-no-yu with cypress balls floating in it, and the six-sided one-person Nemurineko-no-yu. Each hall has a sauna and a cold bath. Baths open 15:00 to 24:00 and 5:00 to 10:00, saunas from 7:00 in the morning. Day bathers need no booking: 7:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to 24:00, last entry 22:00, ¥2,200 on weekdays, ¥2,400 at weekends and ¥2,600 on peak days, towel rental ¥330.
The two private baths are for hotel guests, 90 minutes for ¥4,400, up to four people, booked at the front desk on the day until 23:00. Kinu-no-yu has a half-open-air tub and starts at 15:00, 17:00, 19:00 and 21:00. Nikko-no-yu adds a bedrock sauna room for two, a rest space and a balcony, and starts on the half hour from 15:30. A baby bath can be reserved for either.
The hotel
An Ooedo Onsen Monogatari group hotel on the group's Premium tier. The rooms take their themes from the Kinugawa landscape, with names like mountain range and mountain stream. Dinner and breakfast are the group's three-star buffet in a restaurant with a live kitchen: market-direct sashimi, sushi and wagyu at dinner, a seafood rice bowl at breakfast. The Premium Lounge, fitted out like a forest with a fireplace, serves free drinks, alcohol included, and ice pops after the bath. Check-in is 15:00 and check-out 11:00.
Good to know
- Free drinks in the Premium Lounge, beer and soft drinks as often as you like within opening hours, with ice pops after the bath.
- Private baths cannot be booked ahead. Ask at the front desk on the day; Kinu-no-yu starts on the hour and Nikko-no-yu on the half hour.
- Lockable lockers, dryers and a water server in both changing rooms, with a baby bed, baby chair and baby bath for small children.
- The hotel loop bus stops at the door; the walk from the station is about 15 minutes.
Getting there
Take a Tobu limited express (Kinu, Spacia or Revaty) from Asakusa to Kinugawa-Onsen Station, about 2 hours. From the station the Nikko Kotsu hotel loop bus takes about 10 minutes to the Kinugawa Kanko Hotel stop. On foot it is about 15 minutes. Drivers leave the Nikko-Utsunomiya road at Imaichi, about 25 minutes away; free parking for about 200 cars.
Kinugawa-Onsen STN · Tobu Kinugawa line (limited expresses from Asakusa)
About 15 minutes.
Hotel loop bus from the station, about 10 minutes.
Where it is
Kinugawa-Onsen 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
Cover the tattoo completely before you go in. The hotel doesn't specify a size, so cover everything.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the hotel’s onsen page, and the Ooedo group’s bath terms for the two-seal limit)
Best for: Travelers with one small tattoo who want a buffet-and-baths resort with a free drinks lounge
Group bath terms (ooedoonsen.jp/terms/?section=onsen) refuse tattoos 「※当館指定のシール2枚で完全に覆うことができる場合を除く」. Seals are sold by the hotel; the page gives no size or price. Two large baths, Keicho-no-yu and Kirifuri-no-yu, swap between men and women, eight tubs between them; 15:00 to 24:00 and 05:00 to 10:00. Private baths 15:00 to 24:00, fixed start times, hotel guests only, no advance booking, up to four people. The operator says the water is diluted, heated and recirculated (加水、加温、循環ろ過式).
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