Mori no Sumika Resort & Spa
森の栖リゾート＆スパ
Does Mori no Sumika Resort & Spa allow tattoos? In a private bath
Mori no Sumika turns tattooed guests away from its large baths, so book a room with an open-air tub. The room tubs are heated tap water, not hot-spring water.
The rule is in the hotel’s FAQ, which bars tattooed guests from the summer garden pool too.
The bath
The Komorebi annex, reached along a garden walkway from the main building, has seven rooms with an open-air bath for two or three people, and the Garden Suite, for up to four, with an open-air tub and a sauna. In the main building, two View Luxury rooms on the 6th floor, three classic Japanese rooms and one Japanese room with a double bed have an open-air bath, and two Japanese-modern rooms have a jacuzzi. Every room tub is heated tap water.
The large baths, Jurin no Yu on the top floor and Mori no Ideyu on the ground floor, use hot-spring water, with water added, heated and filtered. Both have saunas and cold plunges and are open 2 p.m. to midnight and 5 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Bring towels from your room.
The hotel
The garden covers about 16,500 square meters (4 acres), with a waterfall and a walkway, Shiki Kairo, through cherry blossoms in April and red leaves in late November. Check-in is 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., checkout 10 a.m.; you can stay until noon for ¥5,500 per room per hour. Parking is free for 40 cars, first come, first served. No pets.
Good to know
- Heated pool and gym, ¥1,100 each. The all-season heated open-air walking pool, in swimsuits, and the gym are open 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; children of elementary-school age and under go free. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for the heated pool.
- Taxis are scarce at Kaga-Onsen Station after 6 p.m. and early in the morning.
Getting there
Yamashiro Onsen bus stop · Hokutetsu Kaga bus
6 minutes on foot.
From Tokyo, take the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Kaga-Onsen, about 2 hours 40 minutes. Some trains run straight through; if yours ends at Kanazawa, change there to the Tsurugi. From Kaga-Onsen Station, the Hokutetsu Kaga bus reaches Yamashiro Onsen in 15 minutes. The CANBUS Mountain Route stops there too. The hotel’s free shuttle leaves Kaga-Onsen Station at 2, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 5 and 5:45 p.m. Book it with your room. It stops at the ryokan bus stop in front of KFC in the Abio City Kaga mall, out the south exit.
Where it is
Yamashiro Onsen bus stop
- Hokuriku Shinkansen 2 hr 40 min from Tokyo
- Hokutetsu Kaga bus 15 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- Hokuriku Arch Pass ¥35,000 · 7 days Seven days between Tokyo, Kanazawa and Osaka, with reserved seats on the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kaga-Onsen.
- 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
Use the open-air tub in your room; it’s heated tap water, not hot-spring water. The large baths turn tattooed guests away.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (FAQ under “Notices about the large bath”; room baths from the room pages)
入れ墨のある方の大浴場のご利用はお断りしております。
This is the rule for the shared baths. It doesn’t apply to the private baths.
Best for: couples who want an open-air tub in a forest annex and a big landscaped garden to walk
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