Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier
三井ガーデンホテル日本橋プレミア
Does Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier allow tattoos? Yes!
Tattoos are welcome in the 9th-floor bath, 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
This is the darkest and most deliberately built of the group's Tokyo baths. The walls are charcoal brick laid in fine horizontal courses. Above them runs a broad band of pale koyamaki, the umbrella pine Japanese bathtubs have traditionally been cut from, because it resists rot and gives off resin once it's warm and wet. The room smells of it before you're in the water. The ceiling lifts into a steep gable with small high windows along the top, a ryokan detail rather than a hotel one, and daylight comes in from up there rather than from any view.
The bath itself is shallow at one end so you can lie back rather than sit up, with a hinoki cypress pillow and hinoki handrails at that end. The rest is dark granite: steps, rim, floor. There's no sauna.
There's no view from the bath, and that's the choice being made. If a skyline is what you want, Toyosu Premier is 36 floors up and Gotanda looks out at Shinjuku. If what you want is to lie in hot water in a dark room that smells of pine and stop thinking for 20 minutes, this is the better room. It's the one hotel here where the bath feels designed rather than installed.
It's on the 9th floor, open 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., free to guests, with towels from your room.
The hotel
The hotel calls itself five-star, and among the Tokyo Mitsui Gardens it's the one that prices like it. Rooms start at a 23.5 m² Superior with a queen bed and run to a 55.9 m² Junior Suite. A three-bed Superior at 26.4 m² is the family option. Checkout is noon, an hour later than the group's usual 11 a.m.
The 9th floor holds the bath and the restaurant together. Nihonbashi Asada is the Tokyo outpost of a Kanazawa ryotei (a traditional high-end restaurant) founded in 1867. It serves Kaga kaiseki (a multi-course Japanese meal) at lunch and dinner and a Japanese breakfast built on Kanazawa ingredients, with a Western alternative. Beside it is Bar MATSU, the first bar the Asada house has put its name to, with a seasonal terrace and city views. The district is the reason to stay here: Edo-era Nihonbashi, with its long-established shops a few minutes' walk away.
Good to know
- Connected underground to Mitsukoshi-mae Station, a minute from the A10 exit, with JR Shin-Nihonbashi linked below ground too. In wet weather you needn’t go outside at all.
- Breakfast at Nihonbashi Asada, 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., last entry 9:30 a.m.
- Changing rooms stocked properly. Hair liquid and tonic on the men’s side, cleanser and skincare on the women’s.
- Art in the public spaces. The hotel runs an art program through its lobby and corridors.
Getting there
The hotel is at Nihonbashi Muromachi 3-4-4, directly connected to Mitsukoshi-mae subway station on the Ginza and Hanzomon lines. Kanda is about seven minutes on foot.
Mitsukoshi-mae STN · Ginza & Hanzomon lines
1 minute from subway exit A10, without going outside.
JR Shin-Nihonbashi is linked below ground too, and Kanda is about seven minutes on foot. In wet weather you need not go outside at all.
Where it is
Mitsukoshi-mae STN 1 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: a central base for people who want the bath to be a non-issue, and a noon checkout
Book this one for the bath itself rather than for a view.
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