Hotel Shiki no Yakata Nasu
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Does Hotel Shiki no Yakata Nasu allow tattoos? In a private bath
Every room at Shiki no Yakata has its own cypress or ceramic tub filled from the hotel’s bicarbonate spring, so the shared bath is never the only option.
Shiki no Yakata publishes no tattoo rule on its live pages. Every room has its own tub of the hotel’s hot spring, so a tattooed guest never has to share.
The bath
Every room has its own tub of the hotel's spring, which the FAQ says guests can use at any hour. The tubs are hinoki cypress in the Takumi, Miyabi and Suisho rooms, ceramic in the Miyabi living-and-twin rooms, and the Kinbai suite has a ceramic open-air tub on its deck as well as a hinoki tub. The water is a sodium and magnesium chloride, sulfate and bicarbonate spring that the hotel calls a beauty bath, faintly colored and smooth; it lists it for low mood, cuts, poor circulation in the hands and feet, cold sensitivity and dry skin.
The shared baths are two half-open-air tubs facing the Japanese garden, Naka-no-yu for women and Godake-no-yu for men, for staying guests only. There is no private bath and no day-use, and the hotel publishes no hours for them. Guests may also walk next door and use the seventh-floor view baths at Hotel Mori no Kaze. Towels, a bath basket and amenities are in the room.
The hotel
An adults-only inn of 30 rooms, no two alike, in the Nasu Miyabi no Sato complex run by Iconia Hospitality; guests must be of junior high age or older. A gate in samurai-residence style leads to a lobby block and covered walkways through the garden to the room wings. Rooms have Simmons beds and a coffee mill, and small dogs (up to 6 kg, two per room) can stay in dedicated rooms for ¥3,300 a night. Dinner is French with a kaiseki (a multi-course Japanese meal) structure, served to every party in a private room at the Parterre restaurant upstairs in two seatings, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m., with a sommelier; breakfast is at 7 or 8 a.m.
Good to know
- A hot spring tub in every room, any hour, hinoki or ceramic, so the shared bath is optional.
- Adults only: guests must be junior high age or older; the sister hotel next door takes children from birth.
- Free shuttle from the West Exit of Nasushiobara Station, 2:35 and 3:35 p.m., booked by phone by the day before.
- The view baths next door are yours too, on the seventh floor of Hotel Mori no Kaze.
Getting there
Take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Nasushiobara Station (1 hour 8 minutes from Tokyo on the Yamabiko). The free shuttle leaves the West Exit at 2:35 and 3:35 p.m. and must be booked by phone by the day before; it returns at 10:00 and 11:10 a.m. By car it is about 15 minutes from the Nasu or Nasu-Kogen Smart interchange, with free parking; set the navigation to the Rindoko Lake View or the Teddy Bear Museum next door, the hotel says, as it is new to map data.
Nasushiobara STN · JR Tohoku Shinkansen
Not walkable.
Free shuttle from the West Exit, 2:35 and 3:35 p.m., booked by phone by the day before.
Where it is
Hotel shuttle stop
- Tohoku Shinkansen 1 hr 8 min
- hotel's free shuttle
- 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 (the rooms page)
Best for: couples who want a hot spring tub in the room at a highland resort hotel
The rooms page says every room has its own tub of the hotel’s bicarbonate spring, in cypress or ceramic depending on the room; the top suite adds an open-air bath. Adults only, junior high age and up. Some rooms take small dogs for a surcharge.
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