APA Hotel & Resort Nishi-Shinjuku Gochome Ekimae Tower
アパホテル＆リゾート〈西新宿五丁目駅前タワー〉
Does APA Hotel & Resort Nishi-Shinjuku Gochome Ekimae Tower 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
Genyo no Yu is on the second floor. 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 indoor bath is open 15:00 to 02:00 and 06:00 to 10:00; the open-air bath and pot baths close earlier, at midnight.
The hotel
A tower hotel in the “resort” grade of the chain, with a restaurant on the ground floor serving breakfast from 07:00 to 10:00 and a facility on the eighth floor open 09:00 to 22:00. Water dispensers on every room floor since August 2026.
What is good about it
- Open-air terrace and pot baths until midnight; indoor bath until 02:00.
- At an Oedo line station, two stops from Shinjuku.
- Two 10×12 cm seals free per night.
Getting there
The name says it: the hotel stands at Nishi-Shinjuku-Gochome STN on the Oedo subway line, two stops from Shinjuku STN and one from Tochomae under the city hall.
Nishi-Shinjuku-Gochome STN · Oedo subway line
At the station.
Two stops from Shinjuku STN.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Shinjuku STN
Shibuya STN
Ueno STN
Yamanote Line
↘ Haneda Airport 18 km
Narita Airport 58 km →
Hotel location · Nishi-Shinjuku-Gochome STN at the station
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 big bath with an open-air terrace and pot baths, at an Oedo line station west of Shinjuku
The smallest seal allowance of the hotel chains on this page, so measure before you rely on it.
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