APA Hotel Shinjuku Kabukicho Tower
アパホテル〈新宿 歌舞伎町タワー〉
Does APA Hotel Shinjuku Kabukicho 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
The bath and open-air bath are on the 28th and top floor, guests only and free, open 15:00 to 01:00 and 06:00 to 10:00. 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. Take your card key and the face and bath towels from your room. The showers are the ultra-fine-bubble type.
The hotel
620 rooms. Breakfast is a buffet at the second-floor Common Cafe from 07:00 to 10:00, and there is a Beef Kitchen Stand at street level. Water dispensers on every floor, a charging spot and rental Wi-Fi in the lobby.
What is good about it
- Top-floor bath and open-air bath over Kabukicho.
- Seven minutes from Shinjuku STN, two from Seibu-Shinjuku.
- Two 10×12 cm seals free per night.
Getting there
Two minutes straight from Seibu-Shinjuku STN, seven from the east exit of JR Shinjuku, through Kabukicho.
Seibu-Shinjuku STN · Seibu Shinjuku line
About 2 minutes.
JR Shinjuku STN 7 minutes from the east exit.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Shinjuku STN
Shibuya STN
Ueno STN
Yamanote Line
↘ Haneda Airport 18 km
Narita Airport 56 km →
Hotel location · Seibu-Shinjuku STN 2 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 28th-floor bath and open-air bath in the middle of Kabukicho
The smallest seal allowance of the hotel chains on this page, so measure before you rely on it.
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