Hotel Laforet Nasu
ホテルラフォーレ那須
Does Hotel Laforet Nasu allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Hotel Laforet Nasu turns tattooed bathers away unless two cover seals of 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) hide the tattoo; anything larger than that is refused.
Tattooed bathers are refused unless two cover seals of 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) hide the tattoo, in which case they may bathe. Anything larger than two seals can cover is turned away.
Show this at the front desk
※ タトゥー（入れ墨）を入れている方のご入浴はお断りしています。ただし、カバーシール（8cm×10cm）2枚でタトゥーを隠していただける場合のみご入浴可能です。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The water is a simple sulfur spring of the hydrogen sulfide type, milky white, which the hotel lists for rheumatic conditions, chronic poisoning, diabetes and movement disorders. The baths are in the hotel wing. The fourth-floor hall has the large bath, a sauna and a jacuzzi; the fifth-floor hall has the large bath and a rock bath. The two swap daily: women take the fourth floor on odd dates and men on even, and the other way round upstairs. Both look out through a wall of windows at the Nasu highland, and the top page adds an open-air bath. Hours are 6 to 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to midnight. Shampoo, conditioner, body soap and dryers are provided.
Day visitors can bathe 2 to 6 p.m. (last entry 5 p.m.) for ¥1,400, children ¥700, though the hotel suspends it when the house is busy. Under Tochigi rules only preschoolers may bathe with the other sex, and the hotel adds that children over 120 cm tall may not. No private bath is listed, and cottage guests walk across to the hotel wing to bathe.
The hotel
A Laforet Hotels and Resorts property on quiet land next to the Nasu Imperial villa, with a hotel wing and cottages. The wing has economy twins on the second and third floors, standard western, Japanese (10 mats) and Japanese-western rooms, two deluxe rooms on the top sixth floor and one special twin. Eight Forest Cottages of about 75 square meters have terraces and sleep five or six, four of them with loft beds; separate cottages take dogs. Dinner is in the restaurant, with a course called Miyabi on the cottage plans, built on highland vegetables and local food. Towels and yukata (a light cotton robe) are in the room; toothbrushes, razors and shower caps are sold.
Good to know
- Men and women swap floors every day: the fourth floor has the sauna and jacuzzi, the fifth the rock bath.
- Towels and yukata are in the room, but toothbrushes, razors and shower caps are sold, not supplied.
- Cottage guests walk to the hotel wing for the bath and the restaurant; parking is at the cottage door.
- Free shuttle from the West Exit of Nasushiobara Station, 11:40 a.m. and 3:40 p.m., about 40 minutes, booked by phone.
Getting there
Take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Nasushiobara Station (1 hour 8 minutes from Tokyo on the Yamabiko). The hotel's free shuttle leaves the West Exit rotary at 11:40 a.m. and 3:40 p.m., takes about 40 minutes and must be booked by phone; it returns at 10:10 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., and the times can change with the train timetable. By car, leave the Tohoku Expressway at Nasu and follow the Nasu Kaido (Route 17) about 10 km, around 15 minutes; carry chains in winter.
Nasushiobara STN · JR Tohoku Shinkansen
Not walkable.
Free shuttle from the West Exit, 11:40 a.m. and 3:40 p.m., about 40 minutes, booked by phone.
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
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 note on the hotel’s hot spring page)
Best for: a small tattoo, a milky sulfur bath and a room or cottage at a moderate price
The page doesn’t say whether the front desk sells seals. The bath is in the hotel building; guests in the cottages walk over to it.
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