Hotel Harvest Nasu
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Does Hotel Harvest Nasu allow tattoos? In a private bath
Hotel Harvest Nasu rents out a family bath by the hour, with handrails and free use for wheelchair users, next to its large shared baths.
Harvest Nasu’s pages carry no tattoo rule. Its family bath can be reserved by the hour, which gives a tattooed guest a spring bath of their own.
The bath
The water is Shiroyashio-no-yu, from a source on the hotel's own grounds: a sodium chloride, sulfate and hydrogen carbonate spring that the hotel classes as weakly alkaline, hypotonic and hot. It lists neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, stiff shoulders, bruises, sprains, chronic digestive trouble, poor circulation and fatigue as the traditional uses.
The large baths are on the first floor of the spa building, open 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to midnight. Indoors there is a falling-water massage spout and a lying bath; outside, an open-air bath in the trees that the hotel calls bathing and forest-bathing at once; and a sauna. Upstairs is a free indoor exercise pool with a jacuzzi, a children's pool and a jet pool, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., swimsuit and cap required and not rented.
The family bath is the private option. It rents by the hour from 3 p.m. to midnight for ¥3,300, by reservation, and there is one version fitted with handrails. Guests with a disability certificate or in a wheelchair get an hour free, arranged in advance and shown at the front desk. The bath is a square tub sunk in a granite surround, walled in slim brick tile with a corner window onto a garden, and red rails at the steps.
The hotel
A Tokyu Resorts and Stays hotel, paired with the members-only Tokyu Harvest Club, built as low wings around a gentle slope on the edge of the Imperial Villa grounds, and marking 20 years in Nasu with an anniversary course this autumn. The public rooms are 36 m² Western rooms for three, 43 m² Japanese-Western rooms for five, 54 m² deluxe versions for six, and 84 m² cottages for seven, one type for guests with dogs; the stay page lists eight rooms for sale. Dinner is a course at G-Dining Kirameki or a buffet at grand-Buffet Minori, breakfast a buffet from 7 a.m. Samue and a padded tanzen (a padded robe) hang in the room. Check-in 3 p.m., checkout 11 a.m.
Good to know
- Free welcome bus, several a day, about 40 minutes from Nasushiobara, booked by the day before; unbooked runs are cancelled.
- An hour in the family bath is free, for wheelchair users and disability certificate holders; ask ahead.
- Free laundry, library and dog run, and an indoor pool with a jacuzzi at no charge, swimsuit required.
- Herbal Spa Nasu treatments on the spa floor, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., closed Thursdays from September 2026.
Getting there
Take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Nasushiobara Station. The hotel's free welcome bus leaves the west-exit shuttle bay at 9:40 and 11:30 a.m., and at 2:30, 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. (and 5:30 p.m. from mid-July to the end of November) and takes about 40 minutes; book by the day before, as unbooked runs do not go. Return buses leave the hotel from 8:50 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., two of them stopping at the Nasu Garden Outlet on request. By car it is about 10 km from the Nasu interchange. No route bus is published.
Nasushiobara STN · Tohoku Shinkansen
Not walkable.
Free welcome bus from the west exit, about 40 minutes, five or six runs a day, booked by the day before.
Where it is
Hotel shuttle stop
- Tohoku Shinkansen 1 hr 8 min
- hotel's free shuttle 40 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
Skip the shared baths and reserve a private bath.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site ()
Best for: a booked hour in a family bath at a large highland resort
The family bath costs ¥3,300 an hour, 3 p.m. to midnight, by reservation; it is free for an hour for guests with a disability certificate or in a wheelchair, and has handrails. The shared baths are a weakly alkaline spring with a sauna.
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