Spa Alpa at Hotel Emisia Sapporo
リラクゼーション スパ・アルパ／ホテルエミシア札幌
Does Spa Alpa at Hotel Emisia Sapporo allow tattoos? Yes, covered
A two-thousand-square-meter basement bath at Shin-Sapporo whose operator writes out its reasoning: it takes sports teams, it knows the cultural gap on tattoos, and it will not refuse everyone at the door.
You may bathe if a single 8 × 12 cm cover hides the tattoo. Covers are sold at the spa front desk for 300 yen. Anything a single cover cannot reach, or a full body piece, is refused. The hotel is unusually explicit about why it draws the line where it does rather than at the door.
Show this at the front desk
タトゥーカバー1枚（8cm✕12cm）でカバーできる場合に限りご入浴いただけます。ホテルでは外国人と日本人でタトゥーに対する考え方に文化的な違いがあることや、スポーツ団体の受入に積極的に取り組んでいることから、タトゥーのある方の利用一切を拒絶することは人種や宗教を差別することにもなると考えています。しかし、全身に及ぶタトゥーやカバーしきれない範囲のタトゥーのある方はスパのご利用、ご入浴はお断りしております。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Sapporo STN
Susukino STN
Odori STN
Hotel locationShin Sapporo STN
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 spa’s own ご利用にあたりお願い block, repeated on its facilities page)
Read on: hotel-emisia.com/sapporo/spa/
Best for: One small tattoo and a whole afternoon to spend, out on the line toward the airport
One cover only, so this is the tightest allowance of any Sapporo facility that allows anything. Basement floor, 2,000 m², and not a hot spring: heated water with a reclining bath, jacuzzi, hyper-jet bath, cold bath, Kneipp shower, far-infrared sauna and mist sauna. Day entry 2,600 yen; Thursdays are a Spa Day at 1,300 yen. A separate notice dated 2026-09-09 permits purpose-made bathing wear over surgical and skin-graft scars, which is a different rule and does not extend to tattoos. The spa closed for a refit from 2025-10-29 to 2025-12-26, so confirm it is open before making the trip out.
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