Otaru Asari Classe Hotel
小樽朝里クラッセホテル
Does Otaru Asari Classe Hotel allow tattoos? In a private bath
Six rooms with an open-air tub and five with an indoor one draw the same salty Asarigawa water as the big bath, where a two-tier sauna looks out over the rocks.
The hotel’s own bath page publishes no tattoo rule, but the Asarigawa Onsen association page for this hotel carries a flat refusal for the day-use bath, so treat the large bath as closed until the hotel itself says otherwise. What the hotel does publish is eleven rooms with a private spring bath, six with an open-air tub and five with an indoor one, on the same chloride water as the big bath. That is the booking to make.
Where it is
Sapporo STN
JR Rapid Airport, then Chuo Bus about 1 h 10 of riding
Hakodate STN
Tomakomai STN
✈New Chitose Airport
Hotel locationAsarigawa Onsen STN
JR Hokkaido Rail Pass Five, seven or ten days of unlimited JR trains on the island, which covers the Rapid Airport from Sapporo or the airport to Otaru. The Hokkaido Chuo bus up to Asarigawa Onsen is paid separately. Sold on Klook.
What happens when you arrive
Skip the shared baths and reserve the private one the way this page describes. Once the door is closed, the bath is yours.
How we know
Confirmed from official site — bath structure, not a tattoo policy (the eleven private-bath rooms from /spa/). The refusal is published by the Asarigawa Onsen association, not by the hotel, so it is recorded as a lead and not quoted as the operator’s.
Read on: classe-hotel.com/spa/
Best for: A private spring bath in the room at a resort hotel with indoor tennis, squash and a pool downstairs
The bath is called Yawaragi-no-yu, a calcium and sodium chloride water the hotel describes as salty and colorless and close to seawater in composition. Open-air baths are rock-built, two on the women’s side, one in winter, and one on the men’s. L-shaped two-tier sauna at 85°C with an 18°C cold bath, and the sauna window looks at the open-air bath. Guest hours 11:00 to 24:00 and 05:00 to 09:00, no sauna in the morning. Day use is 1,500 yen for adults including 100 yen bathing tax and 700 for elementary age, weekdays 11:00 to 18:00 and weekends and holidays to 16:00; a bath-and-lunch set is 3,500 yen. The Asarigawa Onsen association’s page for this hotel adds “入れ墨・タトゥのある方はご利用いただけません” to the day-use listing.
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