Nishi-Asakusa, Taito-ku Hotel with daiyokujo (artificial hot spring)

APA Hotel Asakusa Tawaramachi Ekimae

アパホテル〈浅草 田原町駅前〉

Does APA Hotel Asakusa Tawaramachi Ekimae allow tattoos? Yes, covered

Cover seal required

You can bathe if the tattoo is completely hidden under a cover seal. The size the property allows is the thing to check before you book — allowances differ enough between chains to decide the matter.

Admitted if the tattoo fits under APA’s own cover seals: two seals of 10×12 cm (3.9×4.7 in), maximum, which must hide it completely. Overnight guests get two free per night at the front desk. A tattoo too large to cover is refused.

Seal size allowed: 10×12 cm (3.9×4.7 in)

Show this at the front desk

当社指定のシール(ポイントタトゥカバーシール)[サイズ10cm×12cm]2枚以内でタトゥーを覆うことが出来る場合には大浴殿を利用できます。

The operator’s own wording, copied from the page named under “How we know” below. Holding up your phone settles the question faster than explaining it.

The bath

Genyo no Yu is on the fourteenth floor: a wide indoor bath and an open-air bath the hotel calls liberating. APA’s standard bath water: a “quasi-natural Komeiseki hot spring”, which is to say an artificial spring made with a mineral ore, not water from the ground. Open 15:00 to 01:00 and 06:00 to 10:00, free to guests. The coin laundry and a water dispenser are in the changing rooms up there.

The hotel

465 rooms directly in front of Tawaramachi STN, one stop from Asakusa on the Ginza line and about twenty minutes from Tokyo STN.

What is good about it

Getting there

One minute from exits 1 and 3 of Tawaramachi STN on the Ginza subway line; Senso-ji is a short walk east.

Tawaramachi STN · Ginza subway line
About 1 minute from exit 1 or 3.

One stop from Asakusa STN.

Where it is

Tokyo STN Shinjuku STN Shibuya STN Ueno STN Yamanote Line Haneda Airport 18 km Narita Airport 48 km Hotel location · Tawaramachi STN 1 min
The green loop is the JR Yamanote line, the circle that links Tokyo’s main stations. APA Hotel Asakusa Tawaramachi Ekimae · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

A chain rule with the smallest seal on this page

APA states its rule centrally, in force since 19 March 2019 and repeated on every property page: tattoos are refused in the daiyokujo unless they can be hidden under no more than two of APA’s own point cover seals, each 10×12 cm. Overnight guests get two per person per night free; the seals are APA’s, not yours, so the allowance is exactly 240 cm² and not a centimetre more.

That is the smallest allowance of any chain listed here — a third of Route Inn’s by area — so measure before you rely on it. The rule is the same at all 65 of the chain’s large-bath hotels.

What happens when you arrive

Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, with a seal that fits the size the property allows — that figure is in the policy line at the top of this page, and it is the property’s, not ours. Where the seals are sold at the front desk, buy them at check-in rather than at bath time; where they are not, bring your own. A seal that does not cover the whole tattoo counts as no seal, and staff are within their rules to turn you away at the door. Nothing needs declaring, but nothing may show.

How we know

Confirmed Confirmed from official site (chain-wide policy, in force since 2019-03-19)

Read on: apahotel.com/customer/stay-services/39/ (chain policy); bath confirmed on the property page

Best for: A 14th-floor bath and open-air bath at the door of Tawaramachi STN

The smallest seal allowance of the hotel chains on this page, so measure before you rely on it.

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