APA Hotel Chiba Yachiyo Midorigaoka
アパホテル〈千葉八千代緑が丘〉
Does APA Hotel Chiba Yachiyo Midorigaoka 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
The only natural spring in any APA around Tokyo, and the hotel says it was the first spring ever struck in Yachiyo: a black bittern-water source it credits with easing fatigue and leaving the skin smooth. It fills a large indoor bath and an open-air bath, and there is a sauna. Open 15:00 to 01:00 and 06:00 to 10:00; overnight guests only — the hotel does not sell bath-only entry.
The hotel
A standard APA at the station, renovated in November 2025, about twenty-three minutes by car from the Keiyo road’s Takeishi interchange.
What is good about it
- A real spring, the only one in the chain’s Tokyo-area hotels.
- One minute from the Toyo Rapid line, through trains to the Tozai line.
- Two 10×12 cm seals free per night, and nothing larger.
Getting there
One minute from Yachiyo-Midorigaoka STN on the Toyo Rapid line, which runs through onto the Tozai subway line to Nihombashi and Otemachi.
Yachiyo-Midorigaoka STN · Toyo Rapid line (through to the Tozai subway line)
About 1 minute.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Shinjuku STN
Shibuya STN
Ueno STN
Yamanote Line
✈Haneda Airport
✈Narita Airport
Hotel locationYachiyo-Midorigaoka 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: The one APA in the region with a real spring: Yachiyo's first, black bittern water, with a sauna
The smallest seal allowance of the hotel chains on this page, so measure before you rely on it.
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