Chiba New Town, Inzai Hotel with daiyokujo (artificial hot spring)

Hotel Route Inn Chiba New Town Chuo Ekimae

ホテルルートイン千葉ニュータウン中央駅前

Does Hotel Route Inn Chiba New Town Chuo Ekimae allow tattoos? Yes, covered

Cover seal required

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 if a cover seal hides the tattoo completely. Route Inn’s seals are 11.4×20 cm (4.5×7.9 in), sold at the front desk.

Seal size allowed: 11.4×20 cm (4.5×7.9 in)

The bath

An artificial hot-spring daiyokujo — the chain’s own words are “jinko onsen daiyokujo” — open 15:00 to 02:00 and 05:00 to 10:00, with a men’s and a women’s side and room to stretch out. Not a natural spring.

The hotel

238 rooms in a hotel that opened in February 2020, so it is one of the chain’s newer buildings. Check-in 15:00, check-out 10:00. The comfort rooms on the upper floors add free films on the in-room Route Inn Theater, every room has an air purifier with a humidifier and WOWOW, and breakfast is a free buffet of thirty-odd Japanese and Western dishes.

What is good about it

Getting there

Three minutes from Chiba New Town Chuo STN, on the Keisei Narita Sky Access line that runs between Nippori and Narita Airport — which is the reason to know about a business hotel in Inzai: an airport bed with a bath, without paying airport prices.

Chiba New Town Chuo STN · Keisei Narita Sky Access line (Hokuso line)
About 3 minutes.

The Sky Access line runs between Nippori and Narita Airport.

Where it is

Tokyo STN Shinjuku STN Shibuya STN Ueno STN Yamanote Line Haneda Airport Narita Airport Hotel location
Chiba New Town Chuo STN
The green loop is the JR Yamanote line, the circle that links Tokyo’s main stations. Hotel Route Inn Chiba New Town Chuo Ekimae · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

A chain rule, and the most generous seal of any hotel chain

Route Inn sets this once for the whole group — Route Inn, Grand, Ark and Grand Vrio alike — and states it plainly: tattooed guests may not bathe unless the tattoo is completely covered with a cover seal. The seal it sells at every front desk is 11.4×20 cm, the largest allowance of any hotel chain on this site, and no maximum number is published. The chain adds the limit itself: a tattoo too extensive to cover is refused, so a forearm piece passes and a sleeve does not.

Because it is a chain rule, every Route Inn with a daiyokujo works the same way, which makes the chain the reliable budget option in a city where policy otherwise changes at every door. The seal is bought at the desk, so buy it at check-in.

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 (group FAQ, no property exceptions)

Read on: route-inn.co.jp/faq/

Best for: An artificial hot-spring bath on the Narita Sky Access line, three minutes from the station

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