Onyado Nono Matsumoto
天然温泉 あづみの湯 御宿 野乃松本
Does Onyado Nono Matsumoto allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Onyado Nono Matsumoto is a 10-story hotel where guests leave their shoes at the door and walk tatami corridors to a top-floor bath that looks over Matsumoto Station to the Northern Alps.
The hotel's bath page refuses bathers with tattoos, then makes one exception: a tattoo small enough to hide under a cover seal may go in. It gives the seal as 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) and says seals are kept at some hotels of the group, so ask at the desk on arrival or bring your own. The group FAQ limits a guest to two seals as a rule and warns that stock can run out. There is no private bath.
Show this at the front desk
※当ホテルでは刺青･タトゥー等をされている方の入浴はお断りしております。 但し施設によっては、隠し用シール（8x10cm）をご用意しております。 シールで隠せる大きさであればご入浴いただけます。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The bath is called Azumi-no-yu and takes up the 10th and top floor, with separate sides for men and women. The hotel says the water is natural hot spring water carried in from the Hotaka hot spring district north of the city, an alkaline simple spring it lists for the skin, fatigue, recovery after illness and general health.
Each side has one hot indoor bath with a neck rest, an open-air bath, a cold bath and a dry sauna with a television, where bathers ladle scented water onto the stones themselves. The men's cold bath is 90 cm deep and chilled. Chairs for cooling down stand outside, three on the men's side and two on the women's. The hotel points out that the open-air space faces the Northern Alps with Matsumoto Station directly below, and that the women's side is screened but has small windows cut for the view.
The bath is open from 3 p.m. to 10 a.m. the next morning, and the sauna closes from 1 to 5 a.m. There is no private bath and no room with a spring tub, so the cover seal is the only way in for a tattooed guest.
The hotel
Nono is the Japanese-style line of the Dormy Inn group. Guests take off their shoes at the entrance, and the corridors and all rooms are floored in tatami. Rooms are doubles, queens, twins and a universal twin that sleeps three, all with Serta beds, from about 15 to 32 square meters. Breakfast is a Japanese and Western buffet with two local dishes, a Shinshu salmon bowl and soba noodles with mountain vegetables. Check-in is from 3 p.m. and check-out is 11 a.m.
Good to know
- Two seals per guest as a rule, and the desk may not have any, so pack your own.
- Open 3 p.m. to 10 a.m., with the sauna closed from 1 to 5 a.m.
- Shoes off at the door. The whole building is tatami, corridors included.
- Trains from the tub. The open-air bath looks down on Matsumoto Station and out to the Northern Alps.
Getting there
From Shinjuku the Azusa limited express runs to Matsumoto Station in about 2 hours 40 minutes. Leave by the Oshiro (castle) exit; the hotel gives the walk as about 5 minutes. No bus or shuttle is needed. From Nagoya the Shinano limited express takes about 2 hours to the same station. Drivers reach the hotel in about 15 minutes from the Matsumoto interchange and pay ¥1,400 a night for the tower parking.
Matsumoto STN · JR Chuo Line (Azusa limited express)
About 5 minutes from the Oshiro exit.
No shuttle needed; tower parking for 26 cars, first come.
Where it is
Matsumoto STN
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR East Pass from ¥35,000 · 5 or 10 consecutive days Covers the Azusa, JR’s limited express from Shinjuku to Matsumoto, with a reserved seat.
- Miso factory tour and lunch in Matsumoto A guided half day at Ishii Miso, a miso maker more than 150 years old, with lunch.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
A chain rule, with the largest seals of any chain, when they are in stock
Dormy Inn states this rule in the same words on every hotel’s own FAQ page. The whole picture on Dormy Inn, and every Dormy Inn listing on this site →
What happens when you arrive
Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, to the size on this page. How the seals work, and where to buy them →
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the hotel's own large bath page, under remarks; the two-seal limit is the Dormy Inn FAQ served under this hotel's pages)
Best for: a small tattoo that one or two seals will cover, five minutes from the station with the Northern Alps in the bath window
The bath, Azumi-no-yu, is on the 10th floor, open 3 p.m. to 10 a.m.; the sauna rests from 1 to 5 a.m. Each side has a hot indoor bath, an open-air bath, a dry sauna where bathers pour the water on the stones themselves, and a cold bath, 90 cm deep on the men's side. The water is an alkaline simple spring brought in by tanker from the Hotaka hot spring district. The FAQ lists three seal sizes. Shoes come off at the entrance. Parking is a 26-car mechanical tower, ¥1,400 a night, first come.
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