Naruko, in the Kurumayu quarter on the road toward Higashi-Naruko Hotel

Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Kounkaku

大江戸温泉物語 幸雲閣

Does Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Kounkaku allow tattoos? Yes, covered

Cover seal required

Three springs feed one building here, which in Naruko terms means you can move between waters without leaving the hotel and still have paid the least of anyone on the street.

Kounkaku publishes the identical sentence its sister house does, word for word: no large baths with a visible tattoo, but a paid cover seal of the hotel’s specification makes them usable so long as the tattoo disappears under it. The two hotels share an owner, and we recorded the rule from each one’s own page rather than from the other’s.

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.

Where it is

Sendai STN Furukawa STN change to JR Rikuu East line · 46 min Tohoku Shinkansen 12 min Yamagata STN Morioka STN Fukushima STN Hotel location
Naruko-Onsen STN
Sendai is the door to all of these. Akiu is 43 minutes on one bus from the station, with no change. Nyuto is the Komachi, JR’s Shinkansen across to Akita, as far as Tazawako, then a bus of 47 minutes, about 2 h 20 in all. Naruko is twelve minutes on the Shinkansen to Furukawa and three quarters of an hour up the Rikuu East line. Zao is the Senzan line rapid over the mountains to Yamagata, then a bus of 37 minutes up to the ski village. Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Kounkaku · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

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 ご案内 block under the day-use plans on this hotel’s own page, identical to its sister house)

Read on: ooedoonsen.jp/kounkaku/day_trip/

Best for: The cheapest bed in Naruko that still comes with a written tattoo rule

A hundred and sixteen rooms drawing on three separate springs, which is unusual even in this valley, at pH 7.6 to 8.6. Day bathing is sold as well as overnight stays. The published rate on the tourism association’s table starts at 10,400 yen for two sharing, the lowest of the big Naruko hotels.

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