Hilton Takayama Resort
ヒルトン高山リゾート
Does Hilton Takayama Resort allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Hilton Takayama Resort spreads twelve hot spring tubs over two floors of a hillside terrace, among them an infinity bath whose edge lines up with Takayama's valley and the Northern Alps.
The hotel asks guests with tattoos to stay out of its shared baths as a rule, with two published exceptions: cover the tattoo with a cover seal, or book a private open-air bath. The seals are sold in the hotel's own gift shop. The hotel gives no size limit for the seal.
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タトゥー（刺青）のあるお客様のご利用は原則としてご遠慮いただいております。ただし、貸切露天風呂、またはカバーシールでタトゥーを隠していただいた場合はご利用いただけます。※カバーシールはショップにてご購入いただけます。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The baths are called Tenbo-no-yu and fill two floors of a separate wing, the Onsen Terrace. The hotel counts ten open-air tubs and two indoor baths between them. Ten-no-yu on the seventh floor has the infinity bath, with cypress and rock tubs beside it. Bou-no-yu on the fifth floor has cypress tubs and pot tubs. Men and women swap floors daily. The water is a weakly alkaline simple spring that the hotel lists for neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, stiff shoulders, chills and fatigue. There is a low-temperature sauna. Hours are 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to midnight.
Day visitors can bathe from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 1 p.m., with last entry at 9 p.m., for ¥1,500 per adult, ¥600 for elementary school children and ¥400 for ages three to preschool. The fee includes a rental towel.
The private open-air baths are on the sixth floor of the same wing, facing forest. They take one to four people, cost ¥4,400 for 45 minutes or ¥6,600 for 90 minutes, and run 1 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. with last entry at 10 p.m. A reservation is required and bathing tax is charged on top. Shampoo, conditioner, body soap and a hair dryer are supplied.
The hotel
The resort stands at 640 meters on a hill above the city, and the hotel says all 283 rooms look toward the Northern Alps. Rooms run from 35-square-meter standard rooms, including a Japanese-style room, through 46-square-meter deluxe rooms and executive rooms with lounge access, to suites of 70 square meters and more. It has a Main Tower, an Alps Tower and the Onsen Terrace. Restaurants cover Japanese cooking at Waki, teppanyaki (cooked on an iron griddle) at Gaku, the Dining Room Vistas and a lounge bar. Check-in is 3 p.m. and check-out is noon. Parking for 200 cars is free.
Good to know
- Cover seals are sold on site, at Gift Shop and T on the first floor, open 8 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- The private open-air baths need a reservation. They cost ¥4,400 for 45 minutes and take up to four people.
- The shuttle from the station is free and leaves from the west exit, not the old-town side.
- Room baths are plain water. The hot spring is only in the Onsen Terrace.
Getting there
From Nagoya Station the JR Hida limited express reaches Takayama Station in about 2 hours 25 minutes by the hotel's count. Leave by the west exit, also called the Hakusan exit, where the hotel's free shuttle bus stops. Its timetable shows one or two buses an hour from the station between 8:00 a.m. and 9:40 p.m. No booking is needed for those runs. Guests can leave bags at i-Cafe Takayama by the station between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. and have them carried up free.
Takayama STN · JR Takayama Main Line
Not walkable.
Free hotel shuttle from the west (Hakusan) exit, 8:00 a.m. to 9:40 p.m.; the 6:15 a.m. and 6:50 a.m. buses from the hotel must be reserved.
Where it is
Takayama STN
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Takayama-Hokuriku Area Tourist Pass ¥19,800 · 5 consecutive days Worth it if Gero, Shirakawa-go or Kanazawa is on the same 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
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 Ten-no-yu bath page, and the hot spring section of the FAQ, which repeats the rule and names the gift shop that sells the seals)
Best for: an infinity bath facing the Northern Alps under a cover seal, with a private open-air bath as the other way in
Cover seals are sold at Gift Shop and T on the first floor of the Main Tower, open 8 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Private open-air baths are on the sixth floor of the Onsen Terrace: ¥4,400 for 45 minutes or ¥6,600 for 90 minutes, 1 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. with last entry at 10 p.m., one to four people, reservation required, bathing tax extra. The shared baths are open 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to midnight. Day visitors pay ¥1,500 per adult, rental towel included. The baths in the guest rooms are not hot spring water.
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