Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Toba Saichoraku
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Does Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Toba Saichoraku allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Toba Saichoraku is the Ooedo Onsen Monogatari group's buffet resort on the hill above the bay, and its large baths admit a tattoo only when the hotel's own paid cover seals hide it completely.
The hotel bars tattooed bathers from its large baths unless the tattoo is completely hidden under the cover seal the hotel itself specifies, which it sells. A tattoo the seals cannot fully cover is turned away. No private bath is offered.
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
Day visitors can walk in without booking from 7 to 10 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to midnight, last entry 10 p.m. Adults pay ¥900 on weekdays, ¥1,200 on weekends and holidays and ¥1,400 on the hotel's peak days; children of primary school age and younger pay ¥600 to ¥700, and under-threes are free. Towels are not included and rent for ¥330. The hotel photo of the large bath shows a long stone-edged indoor tub under a wooden ceiling, with a picture window onto a wooded hillside. A day plan that pairs the bath with the dinner buffet is sold by reservation, and the indoor heated pool can be added for ¥600 an adult, though not used on its own.
No seal size is printed beside the hotel's rule, so ask at the front desk how many seals a tattoo may take before you undress.
The hotel
One of the Ooedo Onsen Monogatari group's Premium hotels, set on the Shiroyama hill at Ohama above Toba Bay. Dinner is a buffet; for day guests it runs from 5 to 9:30 p.m. The hotel has an indoor heated pool. Bookings go through the group's own reservation site, and the hotel's buses run to Toba Station through the day.
Good to know
- An indoor heated pool, ¥600 for adults as an add-on to a bath ticket.
- Walk-in day bathing, 7 to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to midnight, no reservation.
- The station bus costs ¥30 a ride and leaves from exit 1 at Toba.
Getting there
From Kintetsu Nagoya, take the Kintetsu limited express to Toba, about 1 hour 30 to 1 hour 40 minutes. The hotel bus leaves from in front of exit 1 at Toba Station at 1:55, 2:15, 2:55, 3:15, 3:55, 4:15 and 4:55 p.m., and from the hotel to the station between 9:05 and 11:05 a.m. and 1:40 and 4:40 p.m. Each ride costs ¥30. Seats from the hotel go to guests who book first; the hotel sometimes switches to a continuous loop.
Toba STN · Kintetsu Toba Line (limited express from Kintetsu Nagoya)
Not walkable.
Hotel bus from Toba Station exit 1, ¥30 a ride, afternoon departures from 1:55 to 4:55 p.m.
Where it is
Hotel bus stop
- Kintetsu limited express 1 hr 35 min
- hotel bus about 2 km
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- Kintetsu Rail Pass, 5 days ¥4,900 Worth it if you’re coming from Osaka, or stopping at Ise or Nara on the way. It covers Kintetsu trains between Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Ise, Toba and Nagoya; the limited express seat is extra, about ¥1,340 from Nagoya or ¥1,640 from Osaka. From Nagoya and back, ordinary tickets cost less.
- Ise Grand Shrine and Toba Aquarium day tour Ise Grand Shrine, the Wedded Rocks at Futami, and Toba Aquarium or Mikimoto Pearl Island, from Nagoya.
- 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 notes on the hotel’s day-use page)
Best for: a tattoo small enough to hide completely under the hotel's own paid seals, with a buffet dinner and an indoor pool for the family
Day bathing needs no booking: 7 to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to midnight, last entry 10 p.m., for 900 yen on weekdays, 1,200 yen on weekends and holidays and 1,400 yen on peak days (adults; towels rent for 330 yen). A bath-and-buffet-dinner day plan is sold by reservation. The indoor heated pool costs 600 yen for adults as an add-on and cannot be used on its own. The hotel bus to Toba Station costs 30 yen a ride.
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