Kusatsu, on the Yubatake itself Hotel, 16 rooms, no meals served ★★★½☆

Yubatake Souan

湯畑草莴

Does Yubatake Souan allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A no-meals inn standing directly on the Yubatake, where rooms carry their own onsen bath fed straight from the source.

A reservable private bath, booked the day of the stay, plus rooms with their own onsen bath fed straight from the Yubatake. The inn's own site publishes no tattoo policy for the shared arrangement, but the private route makes that moot.

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人気の露天風呂付客室は“湯畑源泉掛け流し”。お部屋でも存分に自慢の温泉をお楽しみいただけます。

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

Where it is

Ueno STN Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi STN change to JR bus · 25 min JR Kusatsu-Shima limited express 2 h 20 Takasaki STN Tokyo STN Shinjuku STN Shibuya STN Hotel location
Kusatsu Onsen bus terminal
Ueno to Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi is about 2 h 20 on the Kusatsu-Shima, JR’s limited express (a faster train with fewer stops and a fee on top of the fare), which runs a few times a day, and the JR bus up the valley is 25 minutes more; change at the marked station. The green loop is the JR Yamanote line, the circle that links Tokyo’s main stations; the dashes are the train and bus that take you close to the hotel. Yubatake Souan · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Tokyo Wide Pass covers the Kusatsu-Shima, JR’s limited express, as far as Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi. The bus up the valley is paid separately. 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 inn's own top page)

Confirmed from the property’s own site.

Best for: Rooms with their own onsen bath fed straight from the Yubatake, zero seconds from the source

16 rooms, no meals served (there is an attached foot-bath cafe). Sits directly on the Yubatake, the town's central hot-spring field.

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