Mitsui Garden Hotel Gotanda
三井ガーデンホテル五反田
Does Mitsui Garden Hotel Gotanda allow tattoos? Yes!
Tattoos are welcome in the 16th-floor spa, with nothing to cover. No seal and no size limit.
The hotel's own bath page says it has dropped its limits on body art and tattoos, with no condition on size or placement.
The bath
The bath takes the top floor, the 16th, and the two sides are so different they're almost separate places.
The men's bath is a long, narrow channel of water running the full length of a floor-to-ceiling window. At night the city sits below the glass: Shinjuku and Roppongi, blue-gray silhouettes with scattered red aircraft lights, fading toward the horizon. The room behind is kept dark, with rough gray stone, a slatted ceiling, and a single strip of warm light under the bath's stone rim. The water is still enough to hold the reflection.
The women's bath is the opposite. Pale cream stone, a bath tiled in soft blue-green, bamboo and ferns along one edge, and daylight from above. It's built to feel like bathing in a garden rather than over a city.
It opens at 5 a.m., earlier than anywhere else in the group, which is the practical reason to pick this hotel if you have something to catch. Full hours are 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 1 a.m., free to guests, with towels carried up from your room. There's no sauna on either side.
The hotel
Gotanda itself is offices and a railway viaduct with izakaya (a Japanese pub) underneath, not a place you travel to see.
Self-rated four-star. Rooms take up to three: a 36.8 m² Deluxe twin, a 24 m² Superior with one wide king bed, and a 24 m² three-bed Standard. Check-in is 3 p.m. and checkout is 11 a.m. The restaurant, Tanto Tanto The Gardens on the ground floor, does kiln-baked pizza and a breakfast with omelets made to order and bread from a local bakery.
Good to know
- Two sides that are almost separate places. A dark room over the city on the men’s side; pale stone, bamboo and daylight from above on the women’s.
- A powder area on the women’s side, with skincare laid out. The men’s changing room has the basics.
- A sky lobby with a garden terrace, and a ground-floor terrace planted by Seijun Nishihata outside the restaurant.
- Cheaper than the group’s other Tokyo baths, and the least designed. Nihonbashi Premier is the same group at a higher price if the room itself is the point.
Getting there
The hotel is at Higashi-Gotanda 2-2-6, a short walk from Gotanda Station, which is served by the JR Yamanote line, the Toei Asakusa line out of Exit A3, and the Tokyu Ikegami line.
Gotanda STN · JR Yamanote, Toei Asakusa & Tokyu Ikegami lines
3 minutes from the East Exit, or the A3 exit on the Asakusa line.
Three separate operators at one station is the real argument for staying here: you are on the loop, with two other ways off it.
Where it is
Gotanda STN 3 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- 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.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
Part of a group-wide policy change
This is one of 24 bath-equipped properties run by Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management, which abolished its tattoo rule across all of them on March 1, 2026. The whole picture on Mitsui Garden, and every Mitsui Garden listing on this site →
What happens when you arrive
Check in and go to the bath. There's no seal to buy and nothing to mention at the front desk.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (property bath page read directly)
当ホテルではボディアート・タトゥ等の受入制限を撤廃しております。
The operator’s own wording. Show it if anyone asks.
Best for: anyone with an early train who wants a Yamanote line station and a bath that opens at 5 a.m.
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