APA Hotel Chiba Chuo Ekimae
アパホテル〈千葉中央駅前〉
Does APA Hotel Chiba Chuo Ekimae allow tattoos? Yes, covered
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
This one is different: the hotel calls its bath Kazusa-Shimosa no Yu and runs it as a private bath, booked by the slot. Each hour has a slot from the top of the hour to forty past — 15:00 to 15:40, and so on — with a key lent at the desk and returned by the forty-minute mark, from 06:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to 23:00. 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. The chain’s seal rule is written for its shared baths; here you will be alone in the room, but the rule is the one the desk will apply.
The hotel
105 rooms, one of the chain’s smaller buildings, a few minutes from Chiba’s main station.
What is good about it
- A private bath, booked in 40-minute slots, with a key from the desk.
- Three minutes from Chiba-Chuo STN.
- Two 10×12 cm seals free per night, and nothing larger.
Getting there
Three minutes from the east exit of Chiba-Chuo STN on the Keisei Chiba line, seven from the east exit of JR Hon-Chiba; the hotel notes that Minami-Funabashi is the station for the Makuhari side.
Chiba-Chuo STN · Keisei Chiba line
About 3 minutes from the east exit.
JR Hon-Chiba STN 7 minutes.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Shinjuku STN
Shibuya STN
Ueno STN
Yamanote Line
✈Haneda Airport
✈Narita Airport
Hotel locationChiba-Chuo STN
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 small APA whose bath is booked privately in 40-minute slots
The smallest seal allowance of the hotel chains on this page, so measure before you rely on it.
The bath is a single private room used in 40-minute slots, not a shared daiyokujo. Slots run 06:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to 23:00; the key is lent at the desk.
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