Candeo Hotels Kyoto Karasuma Rokkaku
カンデオホテルズ京都烏丸六角
You can use the bath with your tattoos visible. Nothing to cover, no size limit, and nothing to declare at the desk.
No restrictions since 24 May 2023 — abolished, not covered.
2023/5/24より当ホテルのスカイスパではボディアート・タトゥー等による受入制限を撤廃いたします。
The operator’s own wording, copied from the page linked below. Holding up your phone settles the question faster than explaining it.
Candeo does not set this centrally, and that matters more than it sounds. Each sky spa announced its own removal on its own date — 24 May 2023 at Roppongi and at Kyoto Karasuma Rokkaku, 1 May 2024 at Shimbashi — while three of its Osaka-prefecture properties still ask for cover seals, and two more, at Kobe and Nankai Wakayama, take a third route again and set aside a late-night window instead. So there is no “Candeo policy” to rely on. The property’s own page is the only thing that answers the question, which is what this listing links to.
There is nothing to do. Check in, go to the bath. No seal to buy, no measuring, no declaration to make, and no size at which it stops being allowed. If a member of staff does query it, the operator’s own wording is above — showing it ends the conversation without either of you needing the other’s language.
Confirmed Confirmed from official site (property sky spa page read directly)
Read on: candeohotels.com/ja/kyoto-rokkaku/skyspa/
Best for: A top-floor open-air bath in the middle of the city
Candeo sets this per property, not chain-wide — this hotel’s own page is the one that matters.
Kyoto is the strictest of the big three. Seven of eleven published bathhouse policies there ban stickers, paint or concealing seals by name, not just tattoos, which makes an unconditional listing unusual enough to be worth the trip across town.