Dormy Inn Ikebukuro
ドーミーイン池袋
Does Dormy Inn Ikebukuro 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.
Refused in principle, admitted if a cover seal hides the tattoo completely. Dormy Inn’s seals come in three sizes up to 118×172 mm (4.6×6.8 in), two per guest at most; each property’s FAQ says they are provided “depending on the facility” and that stock is limited, so bring your own.
Show this at the front desk
原則お断りしております。施設により隠し用のシールをご用意しています。シールで隠せる大きさであればご入浴いただけます。【タトゥーシール サイズ】タトゥーシールは原則2枚までにて、ご案内しております。枚数に限りがございますので、御用意できない場合もございます。小：85㎜×105㎜ 中：100㎜×140㎜ 大：118㎜×172㎜
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
Hojo no Yu is on the fifteenth and top floor, and its water is a real spring, trucked from Sosa in Chiba — the only black-water spring in the Ikebukuro area, by the hotel’s account. The indoor tub has a wide bright opening and room to stretch; the open-air bath looks up at a square of night sky that the hotel says does not feel like the middle of Tokyo. A dry sauna at about 96°C with a television, a chilled cold bath, and an outdoor cool-down the staff are proud of.
Open 15:00 to 10:00 the next morning; the sauna is off between 01:00 and 05:00. Dormy’s free extras are here: an ice lolly after the bath in the evening and a lactic drink in the morning.
The hotel
190 rooms from economy singles to superior twins, including ladies’ doubles and twins, all on Simmons mattresses. Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00, and the chain’s buffet breakfast with a local dish.
What is good about it
- A real spring on the roof, and the only one in Ikebukuro.
- Open-air bath under the sky fifteen floors up.
- Nine minutes from Ikebukuro STN, east exit side.
Getting there
Nine minutes from exit 35 of Ikebukuro STN, on the east side, or eleven from Higashi-Ikebukuro on the Yurakucho line.
Ikebukuro STN · JR Yamanote, Saikyo and Shonan-Shinjuku lines; Marunouchi, Yurakucho and Fukutoshin subway lines
About 9 minutes from exit 35.
Higashi-Ikebukuro STN (Yurakucho line) 11 minutes.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Shinjuku STN
Shibuya STN
Ueno STN
↓ Haneda Airport 21 km
Narita Airport 54 km →
Ikebukuro STN 9 min
Hotel location
A chain rule, with the largest seals of any chain — when they are in stock
Dormy Inn answers this on every property’s own FAQ page in the same words: refused in principle, but a tattoo that a cover seal hides completely may bathe. The seals come in three sizes — 85×105, 100×140 and 118×172 mm — and the rule is two per guest, so two large ones cover about 400 cm², nearly twice Route Inn’s single seal and more than three times APA’s pair. The Onyado Nono inns are the same company under another name and carry the same answer.
The same FAQ adds two qualifiers that matter: the seals are provided “depending on the facility”, and “stock is limited, so we may not be able to provide them”. Neither is a refusal, but neither is a promise. Bring your own seals of the right size and the rule works in your favour every time; arrive without and you are relying on the drawer at the desk.
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 (the property's own FAQ page; group-wide answer)
Read on: dormy-hotels.com/dormyinn/hotels/ikebukuro/faq/
Best for: The only black-water spring in Ikebukuro, on a fifteenth-floor roof
Two large seals cover about 400 cm² — the most of any chain listed here — but the FAQ says stock is limited. Carry your own of the right size.
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