Dormy Inn Kawasaki
ドーミーイン川崎
Does Dormy Inn Kawasaki allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Tattoos are allowed if up to two cover seals hide them completely, the largest 11.8 cm × 17.2 cm (4.6 × 6.8 in). The bath, Ogihama no Yu, runs on the hotel's own black spring water from 450 meters below.
The hotel's own FAQ says seals are provided “depending on the facility” and that stock is limited, so bring your own of the right size.
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, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
Ogihama no Yu is on the 15th and top floor, and the water is the hotel's own: black water pumped from 450 meters beneath the building, in the indoor tub and in the pot baths on the open-air terrace. The indoor windows face east, so the bath gets the sunrise and, after dark, the lights of the Kawasaki factories. Men get a two-tier dry sauna, women a mist sauna with a television, both with a chilled cold bath and the rooftop for the cool-down. The room is decorated with paintings of the old Kawasaki post town and lamps shaped like the daruma dolls sold at Kawasaki Daishi. Open 3 p.m. to 10 a.m. the next morning; the sauna is off between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.
The hotel
386 rooms, the largest of the chain's Kanto hotels: doubles, queens in three grades, twins in five, and family twins, all on Simmons mattresses with the chain's own pillow. Check-in is 3 p.m. and checkout is 11 a.m., with the buffet breakfast and a local dish.
Good to know
- Ice pop after the bath, yogurt drink in the morning. Dormy’s free extras, both here.
Getting there
Kawasaki is one stop from Shinagawa on the Tokaido line and on the Keikyu main line, which also runs to Haneda.
Kawasaki STN · JR Tokaido, Keihin-Tohoku and Nambu lines; Keikyu main line (Keikyu Kawasaki)
About 10 minutes from the central east exit along Tachibana-dori.
Keikyu Kawasaki Station is also about 10 minutes.
Where it is
Kawasaki STN
- JR Tokyo Wide Pass ¥16,000 · 3 days Three days of JR trains around Tokyo, the Narita Express and the Tokyo Monorail included.
- Tattoo-friendly onsen visit with a guide A guide takes you to a Tokyo bathhouse that welcomes tattoos, with five indoor baths and a separate open-air tub. About 90 minutes.
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
A chain rule, with the largest seals of any chain, when they are in stock
Dormy Inn states this rule in the same words on every hotel’s own FAQ page. The whole picture on Dormy Inn, and every Dormy Inn listing on this site →
What happens when you arrive
Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, to the size on this page. How the seals work, and where to buy them →
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the property's own FAQ page; group-wide answer)
Best for: a Haneda flight from a quieter base than central Tokyo
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