Jindaiji Onsen Yumori no Sato
深大寺天然温泉 湯守の里
Does Jindaiji Onsen Yumori no Sato 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 only if the tattoo can be hidden with a sticker or something similar; anyone who comes in uncovered is asked by staff to leave. The facility names no size and sells no seal of its own, so bring your own cover.
Show this at the front desk
シール等で隠せる場合のみ入館が可能です。そのままでご入館されますと、従業員からお声がけの上、退館していただきます。
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 water is the point: a fossil seawater pumped from 1,500 metres, a weakly alkaline sodium chloride bicarbonate spring so rich in humic acid that it runs black — the facility calls it one of the darkest in the Kanto region — and it goes into the tubs undiluted, at about the salinity of the body, so long soaks are easy. The well gives 161 litres a minute; the tubs are drained every night and refilled every morning, and the facility warns that the water foams and floats black crystals because it is so concentrated. Nine baths use it, some built of bamboo, charcoal and stone, one lit by projection mapping, at different temperatures; there are four stone-bed sauna rooms and a mugwort steam room for women.
Open 10:00 to 22:00 every day of the year. Weekday admission is 1,080 yen for as long as you like or 650 yen for a sixty-minute “crow’s bath”; weekends and busy periods 1,180 and 750. A towel set and indoor wear are 400 yen each to rent, the stone-bed sauna 800 yen on top.
The hotel
Not a hotel: a day spa with rest rooms, a restaurant, a garden and a shop that will sell you twenty litres of the source water to take home. Jindaiji temple, Tokyo’s second oldest, is a few minutes’ walk away.
What is good about it
- Undiluted black water from 1,500 metres, drained and refilled every night.
- Covered means admitted; bring your own seals, none are sold here.
- Free shuttle from Chofu STN, open every day 10:00 to 22:00.
Getting there
A free shuttle bus runs every day from the north side of Chofu STN on the Keio line, about seven or eight minutes; when it is full you wait for the next or walk from the nearest bus stop. Otherwise a Keio bus from Chofu STN, or from Kichijoji or Mitaka, to the Jindaiji stop and six minutes on foot. Fifty parking spaces three minutes away.
Chofu STN · Keio line
Free shuttle from the north side of the station, 7 to 8 minutes.
Or a bus to the Jindaiji stop from Chofu, Kichijoji or Mitaka, then 6 minutes on foot.
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 (home-page FAQ, in Japanese and English)
Read on: yumorinosato.com (home-page FAQ)
Best for: One of the Kanto region's darkest black-water springs, undiluted, with a free shuttle from Chofu STN
The rule is a sentence, not a size: covered means admitted, uncovered means asked to leave. Nothing is sold at the desk, so this is one for people who carry their own cover seals.
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