Forest Resort Hotel Green Pearl Nasu
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Does Forest Resort Hotel Green Pearl Nasu allow tattoos? In a private bath
Green Pearl’s open-air bath of milky sulfur water turns private for whoever reserves it by phone, and its newest rooms have a tub outside the window.
Green Pearl publishes no tattoo rule. Its open-air bath can be reserved for your party alone, first come by phone, and rooms rebuilt in July 2024 have their own open-air bath.
The bath
The water is a milky white sulfur spring, a hydrogen-sulfide simple sulfur spring that the hotel classes as weakly acidic, hypotonic and hot, drawn from a blend of the Inagawa, Magnesium Inagawa and Prefectural Electric Bureau B-3 sources. It runs through the tubs without recirculation, and the hotel says the smell of sulfur meets you at the door. It lists neuralgia, muscle pain, chronic digestive and skin complaints, women's ailments, diabetes, high blood pressure and hardened arteries as the traditional uses, and dates the spring to 1,380 years ago.
There is one large indoor bath for men and one for women, which swap between morning and evening. The open-air bath is a rectangular tub rimmed in red granite under a pillared roof, with a lattice fence and trees beyond; the hotel says you see stars from it at night. It can be reserved for your party alone. The home page says there are set private hours as well as swap times, but the bath page no longer prints them; reservations are first come, by phone, so ask for the current windows when you book.
The other private option is the room. Rooms with their own open-air bath opened on July 22, 2024, 10 mats for one to three guests, with the tub outside the window filled with Nasu spring water. Yukata and amenities are picked up from an amenity bar at the front desk.
The hotel
A 21-room Forest Group hotel on a rise above the Nasu Kaido, run with a Yumeguri stamp book across the group's inns. Besides the open-air-bath rooms there are 12-mat Japanese rooms for up to six with a veranda, Western twins, a barrier-free Western room with a combined bathroom, and 6-to-12-mat Japanese rooms that use the big bath. Dinner is a kaiseki course in the dining room from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., with the menu rewritten every two months; breakfast is a Japanese basket tray from 7:30 to 9 a.m. with as much grated yam as you want. The lobby has a round fireplace and a self-service espresso machine that is free from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Good to know
- Free shuttle twice a day from Nasushiobara, 1:40 p.m. and 3:40 p.m. out, 10:05 a.m. back, booked by phone.
- Free espresso in the lobby, 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and free washers and dryers.
- Table tennis for ¥100 a half hour, karaoke rooms, mahjong tables and a three-hole putting course.
- Pick up your yukata (a light cotton robe) at the desk. Amenities are self-serve from a bar at the front.
Getting there
Take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Nasushiobara Station, 75 minutes from Tokyo by the hotel's count. The free shuttle leaves the station at 1:40 p.m. and 3:40 p.m., a 35-minute ride, and returns from the hotel at 10:05 a.m.; book it by phone. The Nasu Resort Express highway bus from Tokyo stops at Nasu-Yumoto Onsen, where the hotel meets some arrivals by reservation; otherwise the nearest stop is Shin-Nasu, a 10-minute walk. By car it is about 20 minutes from the Nasu interchange, with 30 free spaces.
Nasushiobara STN · Tohoku Shinkansen
Not walkable.
Free shuttle 1:40 p.m. and 3:40 p.m. out, 10:05 a.m. back, booked by phone; or bus to Shin-Nasu and a 10-minute walk.
Where it is
Shin-Nasu bus stop
- Tohoku Shinkansen 1 hr 8 min
- Kanto Jidosha bus 39 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
Use the bath in your room.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site ()
Best for: a reserved turn alone in a milky, source-flowing sulfur bath
Private use of the open-air bath is first come, reserved by phone; the page gives no set windows now (two daily windows were once listed and survive only in a comment). The rooms with an open-air bath, rebuilt in July 2024, use Nasu hot spring water. The hotel has 21 rooms.
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