Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Shiomiso
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Does Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Shiomiso allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Premium Shiomiso's open-air baths look straight out over the Senami shore, and the hotel says the sun sets into the sea, behind Awashima or behind Sado depending on the month.
A tattooed bather may use the large baths only when the hotel's own paid cover seals hide the tattoo completely. The group bath terms that the hot spring page links to set the limit at two seals, so a tattoo larger than that stays out of the shared baths. The fallback is one of the two private baths, Maru and Kaku: ¥3,000 for an hour, staying guests only, booked at the hotel on the day.
Show this at the front desk
※入れ墨・タトゥーのある方は大浴場をご利用いただけません。ただし、当館指定のカバーシール（有料）を貼って、入れ墨、タトゥーが完全に覆える場合に限り、大浴場をご利用いただけます
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
Senami Onsen comes out of the ground at over 90°C, and the hotel calls it netsu-no-yu, the bath that keeps you warm. The operator lists it as a sodium chloride spring, alkaline and hot at the source, for cuts, poor circulation, cold sensitivity, low mood and dry skin. It says the water has added water and is recirculated through a filter. The hotel says the salt clings to the skin like a pack and holds the warmth in.
There are three open-air baths facing the sea. Yunagi swaps between men and women and is the one for sunsets, which the hotel says are best from spring to autumn. The women's Yubae has a dry sauna and a cold plunge beside it; the men's Nihonkai, also called Asanagi, looks out on blue water on a clear day. A round, bun-shaped rock found when the shore was drilled sits in the open-air bath. The indoor baths, Yubae and Nihonkai, have big windows on the sea. The large baths open 3 p.m. to midnight and 5 to 10 a.m.; the saunas 3 p.m. to midnight and 7 to 10 a.m.
Two private baths sit indoors: Maru, with a round tub, and Kaku, a square stone tub with a window on the view. Each is ¥3,000 for an hour, for staying guests only, from 3 p.m. to midnight. They cannot be booked ahead; ask at the hotel on the day, until 9:30 p.m.
The hotel
A large resort hotel in the Ooedo Onsen Monogatari group's Premium line, set on the shore of Senami Onsen. A lounge with a high ceiling opens on the sea from the lobby and pours free drinks, draft beer included, throughout the stay. Dinner and breakfast are buffets with Niigata dishes, a live kitchen and Haagen-Dazs ice cream, and a paid sake server pours local brews. The hotel has a table tennis corner, a manga corner, karaoke and a game corner.
Good to know
- Free drinks all stay, draft beer included, in the lounge that faces the sea.
- Private baths are first come on the day, with no advance booking; ask at the hotel by 9:30 p.m.
- A free foot bath on the grounds uses the same spring water; it closes from December to about April.
Getting there
From Niigata Station, take a JR train north to Murakami Station; the hotel publishes no train time for that leg. The hotel shuttle leaves Murakami Station at 4 and 5:30 p.m. and takes about 10 minutes. It returns from the hotel at 8:50 and 9:50 a.m. Book it by 6 p.m. the day before; each ride costs ¥10. A route bus from the station also takes about 10 minutes to the Senami Onsen Nichome stop, a minute's walk from the door. Parking is free.
Murakami STN · JR Uetsu line
Not walkable.
Hotel shuttle at 4 and 5:30 p.m., booked by 6 p.m. the day before, or the route bus to Senami Onsen Nichome, about 10 minutes.
Where it is
Inn shuttle stop
- Joetsu Shinkansen 2 hr
- JR Inaho limited express 45 min
- hotel shuttle 10 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR East Pass from ¥35,000 · 5 or 10 consecutive days Covers the Toki, a Joetsu Shinkansen service, to Niigata and the Inaho limited express on to Murakami.
- 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
Bring your own seals and cover the tattoo completely before you go in. The hotel doesn't specify a size, so cover everything.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the notice on the hotel's hot spring page, and the Ooedo group's bath terms it links to for the two-seal limit)
Best for: families who want a buffet hotel on the beach, with sunset over the Sea of Japan from the open-air bath
The group's bath terms (ooedoonsen.jp/terms/?section=onsen) apply to the large baths and refuse tattooed bathers except where two of the hotel's designated seals cover the tattoo completely. No seal size or seal price on the hotel's pages. Private baths Maru (round indoor tub) and Kaku (square stone indoor tub with a window view): 3 p.m. to midnight, ¥3,000 for one hour, staying guests only, no advance booking, taken at the hotel until 9:30 p.m. on the day. No room with its own hot spring tub on the hotel's pages. The operator says the water has added water and is recirculated through a filter. Large baths 3 p.m. to midnight and 5 to 10 a.m.; saunas 3 p.m. to midnight and 7 to 10 a.m.; the open-air baths may close in bad weather. Foot bath closed December to about April.
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