Private Spa Hotel Orange Bay
プライベート・スパ・ホテル オレンジ・ベイ
Does Private Spa Hotel Orange Bay allow tattoos? In a private bath
Orange Bay is a 12-room hotel with no shared bath: every room has an open-air spring tub on its own terrace, granite or cypress, running day and night a few steps from Tachibana Bay. A rented bath at the water's edge, Akane, takes day visitors by the 50-minute slot.
Orange Bay publishes no tattoo rule and has no shared bath to publish one for. All 12 rooms have an open-air spring bath of their own, flowing through from the source and usable 24 hours, so a tattooed guest never leaves the room to bathe.
The bath
The water is Obama's sodium chloride spring, which the hotel says has been used for rheumatism and nerve pain and which it pipes to every room straight from the source. There is no communal bath in the building. Each of the 12 rooms has an open-air view bath on its own terrace, filled and overflowing around the clock: a natural-stone tub in the Standard Twin rooms, whether the Natural or the Modern version, a cypress tub in the Deluxe Suite, and in the two detached Hanare Welina rooms a terrace bath looking onto a private garden. The FAQ says a room bath takes three adults at a stretch and can be used 24 hours. The Welina rooms opened in December 2022; one is built with almost no steps.
For day visitors the hotel rents Nami-no-yu Akane, an open-air bath set right at the water's edge. A 50-minute slot for one to four people costs 3,000 yen, with 500 yen for each person beyond four; it runs 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., last booking 10 p.m., and is booked the day before or on the day through the hotel's YUASOBI private-bath facility. Payment is cash, there is nowhere to lock valuables, and the bath closes in bad weather, spring tides or high seas.
The hotel
Orange Bay calls itself a private spa hotel and says it stands closer to the sea than anything else in Obama. The 12 rooms are Standard Twins in two styles, a Deluxe Suite with a Japanese-Western layout, and the two Hanare Welina detached rooms. Breakfast is brought to the room. The ground floor holds a gelato counter and a souvenir shop, and the hotel sells seafood from its shop below. Free parking is at the seafood shop on the highway side.
Good to know
- Every room, not just the suites, has the open-air tub; the cheapest Twin gets a stone one.
- The Akane sea bath is for day visitors, 3,000 yen for 50 minutes, booked a day ahead or on the day.
- One Welina room is step-free, with a terrace bath of its own.
- Obama Bus Terminal is a five-minute walk, by the hotel's count.
Getting there
From Isahaya Station take the bus to Obama Bus Terminal, about one hour; the hotel is a five-minute walk from the terminal. From Hakata, the hotel describes the JR Kamome to Isahaya and the same bus, or about 3.5 hours by highway bus. From Nagasaki, bus or car takes about 1 hour 15 to 20 minutes. The hotel publishes no fare.
Isahaya STN · JR Nagasaki Main Line and Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen (Kamome), then the Shimatetsu bus
Not walkable.
Bus about one hour to Obama Bus Terminal, then a five-minute walk.
Where it is
Obama bus stop
- JR limited express 57 min
- Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen 20 min
- Shimatetsu bus 58 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Kyushu Rail Pass from ¥12,000 · 3, 5 or 7 consecutive days Worth it if you’re coming from Hakata by train.
- Kyushu SunQ Pass Worth it if you’d rather ride buses. It covers the Shimatetsu buses from Isahaya and the direct bus from Nagasaki Station to Unzen, and highway buses across the island.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
There's no shared bath here, so every bath you use is private.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site (the rooms page describes the source-fed open-air bath in every room type)
Best for: anyone who wants to bathe in the open air with the bay three meters away and nobody else in sight
Twelve rooms in four kinds, each with a source-fed open-air view bath: granite in the Standard Twins, cypress in the Deluxe Suite, and a terrace bath over a private garden in the two detached Hanare Welina rooms opened in December 2022, one of them step-free. The FAQ says the room baths hold three adults and run 24 hours. Breakfast is served in the room. The hotel also rents Nami-no-yu Akane, an open-air bath at the water's edge, to day visitors: 50 minutes for one to four people at 3,000 yen plus 500 yen a head beyond four, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. with last booking at 10 p.m., booked a day ahead or on the day through its YUASOBI private-bath facility, cash only, closed in rough seas or high tides.
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