FOURTREAT plus NASUKOGEN
フォートリート+那須高原
Does FOURTREAT plus NASUKOGEN allow tattoos? Yes, covered
FOURTREAT plus admits a tattoo that two of its own seals, 10 cm × 15 cm (3.9 × 5.9 in) each and sold at the desk for ¥250 apiece, can cover; its open-air bath runs on the Shika-no-yu source.
The rule is the Relo Hotels & Resorts group FAQ. A tattoo may go into the baths if two of the hotel’s own seals, 10 cm × 15 cm (3.9 × 5.9 in) each, can cover it, and the front desk sells them for ¥250 apiece. The same rule covers the sauna and the open-air bath.
Show this at the front desk
刺青 ・ タトゥーがある方につきましては、施設指定のカバーシール2 枚で覆うことができるサイズに限り、ご入浴・プール施設をご利用いただけます。・タトゥーカバーシール サイズ10cm×15cm 1枚￥250（フロントにて販売）
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The open-air bath runs on the Shika-no-yu source, the oldest spring in Tochigi, which the hotel says has been used for 1,300 years. It is a simple acid sulfur spring of the hydrogen sulfide type, pH 2.36, 53.7°C at the source, milky white and slightly thick to the touch; the hotel says it leaves the skin smooth. Its own table says the water is diluted, heated and flows through rather than recirculating. The list of conditions it is said to help is long: chronic joint and muscle pain, cold sensitivity, poor circulation, mild high blood pressure, diabetes, hemorrhoids, stress and fatigue among them.
The indoor large bath is not spring water, the page says plainly. Both the open-air tub and the indoor hall are open 5 to 10 a.m. and noon to midnight, and on cleaning days the afternoon session starts at 3 p.m. There is no day-use bathing and no private bath. A bathing tax of ¥150 is charged from age 12, and children of 7 and over must use the bath of their own sex. Women can book a 30-minute steam spa for ¥2,000 at check-in. Shampoo and towels are in the room; the changing rooms add cotton swabs and brushes.
The hotel
A Relo Hotels and Resorts property under the FOURTREAT brand, which it explains as rest, recreation, relaxation and retreatment, aimed at adult travelers. It has 38 rooms in four types: Deluxe twins of 42 square meters with a tatami sitting area, standard twins and Natural Light twins of 32 square meters, and Natural Light Japanese-western rooms for five; every room has a unit bath. The lounge looks across the Kanto Plain, serves wine and finger food from 3 to 6 p.m. and plays records after 6, with a library of 200 books. Dinner is a French-style course from three menus, breakfast a buffet with the local Nasu Goyoran eggs. Check-in 3 p.m., check-out 10 a.m.
Good to know
- The indoor bath is not spring water; only the open-air tub carries the Shika-no-yu sulfur water.
- Open 5 to 10 a.m. and noon to midnight, with afternoons starting at 3 p.m. on cleaning days.
- Ride the Kanto bus for ¥500 return, from Nasushiobara or Kuroiso Station, booked two days ahead and paid at check-out.
- Wine and finger food in the lounge, 3 to 6 p.m., and records with coffee after 6.
Getting there
Take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Nasushiobara Station (1 hour 8 minutes from Tokyo on the Yamabiko), then the Kanto bus toward Nasu-Yumoto. Guests pay ¥500 for the round trip if they book with the hotel two days ahead and give the hotel name to the driver; it is a regular route bus, so you may have to stand. From the Nasu-Yumoto bus stop the hotel runs a shuttle that must be booked. On the local line, Kuroiso Station is about 35 minutes from Nasu-Yumoto by the same bus.
Nasushiobara STN · JR Tohoku Shinkansen, then the Kanto bus toward Nasu-Yumoto
Not walkable.
Kanto bus to Nasu-Yumoto (¥500 return for guests, booked two days ahead), then the hotel shuttle from the stop, booked.
Where it is
Nasu Yumoto Onsen bus stop
- Tohoku Shinkansen 1 hr 8 min
- Kanto Jidosha bus 52 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Tokyo Wide Pass ¥16,000 · 3 days Worth it if Nasu is one stop in a longer Kanto trip.
- 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, to the size on this page. How the seals work, and where to buy them →
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the group’s own FAQ; the hotel’s hot spring page publishes no separate rule)
Best for: a mid-size tattoo and a cloudy Shika-no-yu sulfur soak with a view
Formerly the Nasu Kogen Hotel View Palace. The open-air bath runs on the Shika-no-yu source, flowing through. The group FAQ says guests who refuse the seals may be turned away.
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