Hotel Yamadaya
ホテル山田屋
Does Hotel Yamadaya allow tattoos? In a private bath
The garden open-air baths look down on Shimoda port, and the cypress tub you can book is the smallest room in the building.
The inn publishes a free reservable family bath, one cypress indoor tub, booked in forty-minute turns until midnight. You cannot reserve it in advance; you claim a slot at the front desk when you check in, so ask the moment you arrive. No tattoo rule appears anywhere on the site, which means the two large baths and the two garden open-air baths are an unknown rather than an invitation.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Odoriko, JR’s limited express 2 h 39
Atami STN
Hotel locationIzukyu-Shimoda STN
Izukyu Discovery Pass One or two days on the Izukyu line between Ito and Izukyu-Shimoda. It does not cover the Odoriko’s limited express charge or the JR part of the ride from Tokyo, so it suits a stay that also stops at Ito or Izu-Kogen. 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 温泉 page, which sets out the free 貸切家族風呂 and its booking rule); no tattoo rule found on hotel-yamadaya.com
Read on: hotel-yamadaya.com/spa/
Best for: A traveler who does not want to pay extra for forty minutes alone in cypress
One reservable cypress indoor bath, free, forty minutes a party, last turn at 24:00, booked at check-in only. Shared baths are two large baths and two garden open-air baths, men and women separate, 15:00 to 09:30 the next morning. Shimoda Onsen, simple spring, hypotonic weak alkaline.
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