APA Hotel Shinagawa Sengakuji Ekimae
アパホテル〈品川 泉岳寺駅前〉
Does APA Hotel Shinagawa Sengakuji 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
Genyo no Yu is on the 21st and top floor, guests only and free: an indoor bath, an outdoor bath and a pot bath on both the men’s and women’s sides, with the city below. 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 06:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to 02:00, and the hotel asks you to bring the towels from your room.
The hotel
563 rooms in a tower over Sengakuji STN. The 21st floor also has the coin laundry and a vending machine with alcohol; the ground floor a microwave. Breakfast is served in the restaurant from 06:30 to 10:00, until 10:30 at weekends.
What is good about it
- Rooftop open-air bath on the 21st floor, free to guests.
- One minute from Sengakuji STN, on the Keikyu line to Haneda.
- Two of APA’s 10×12 cm seals free per night, and nothing larger.
Getting there
One minute from exit A2 of Sengakuji STN, where the Toei Asakusa line and the Keikyu main line run through to Haneda Airport; five minutes from the north gate of Takanawa Gateway STN on the Yamanote, and Shinagawa STN’s Takanawa exit is within walking distance.
Sengakuji STN · Toei Asakusa line / Keikyu main line (through to Haneda)
About 1 minute from exit A2.
Takanawa Gateway STN (Yamanote) 5 minutes.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Shinjuku STN
Shibuya STN
Ueno STN
Yamanote Line
↓ Haneda Airport 11 km
Narita Airport 54 km →
Hotel location · Sengakuji STN 1 min
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 21st-floor open-air bath one minute from the Asakusa line to Haneda
The smallest seal allowance of the hotel chains on this page, so measure before you rely on it.
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