Kamata, Ota-ku Hotel with daiyokujo

Hotel Route Inn Tokyo Kamata

ホテルルートイン東京蒲田 -あやめ橋-

Does Hotel Route Inn Tokyo Kamata 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

Tabibito no Yu again, the radium artificial hot spring the chain runs in its standard hotels: colourless, odourless, softened water, credited by Route Inn with easing stiffness and fatigue. Men’s and women’s baths, open 15:00 to 02:00 and 05:00 to 10:00, which at an airport hotel is the point. The usual amenities on both sides, scales and dryers.

The hotel

The standard Route Inn grade, 147 rooms, four minutes from the west exit of Keikyu Kamata STN and six from the east exit of JR Kamata. Check-in 15:00, check-out 10:00. Every room has a humidifying air purifier, free Wi-Fi and WOWOW; the comfort rooms on the upper floors add free films on the in-room Route Inn Theater.

Breakfast is free: a buffet at the restaurant Nagomi with croissants and a mocha danish baked in-house and a daily European bread.

What is good about it

Getting there

Keikyu Kamata is where the Keikyu airport line leaves the main line for Haneda, which is what makes a plain business hotel in Kamata worth a page here. Shinagawa is up the same line the other way; JR Kamata, six minutes from the door, is on the Keihin-Tohoku.

Keikyu Kamata STN · Keikyu main line & Keikyu Airport line
4 minutes from the west exit; JR Kamata (Keihin-Tohoku line) 6 minutes from its east exit.

The Airport line to Haneda branches here.

Where it is

Tokyo STN Shinjuku STN Shibuya STN Ueno STN Yamanote Line Haneda Airport 5 km Narita Airport 59 km Hotel location · Keikyu Kamata STN 4 min
Hotel Route Inn Tokyo Kamata · 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: Haneda airport nights

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