Yudanaka Ryokan ★★★★☆

Aburaya Tosen

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Does Aburaya Tosen allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Aburaya Tosen’s private bath is a Shigaraki stoneware tub set out in the open where, the inn says, you can hear the wind across the valley.

Aburaya Tosen does not publish a tattoo rule. It rents Suigetsu-no-yu, a private open-air bath in Shigaraki ware, in 50-minute turns by reservation, and sells rooms with their own open-air bath. Take either rather than the two shared baths.

Where it is

Tokyo STN Nagano STN change to Nagano Electric Railway · 45 min Hokuriku Shinkansen 97 min Hotel location
Yudanaka STN
Everything here is reached from Tokyo. Karuizawa is an hour on the Hokuriku Shinkansen and Echigo-Yuzawa 79 minutes on the Joetsu Shinkansen, both with no change. Kawaguchiko is the Fuji Excursion from Shinjuku, about two hours, and Isawa the Kaiji, an hour and forty. The Nagano towns change once: Bessho at Ueda, Nozawa at Iiyama, and Yudanaka, Hakuba and Myoko at Nagano.. Aburaya Tosen · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR East Pass Covers the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagano. The Nagano Electric Railway on to Yudanaka is a private line and is paid separately. Sold on Klook.

What happens when you arrive

Skip the shared baths and reserve the private one the way this page describes. Once the door is closed, the bath is yours.

How we know

Confirmed from official site, bath structure rather than a tattoo policy (the inn’s Suigetsu-no-yu page and bath index)

Read on: aburaya-tousen.co.jp/onsen/suigetsunoyu/

Best for: A Shigaraki-ware private open-air tub with a panorama of the Shiga mountains

Suigetsu-no-yu: 2,200 yen for 50 minutes, reservation required, 15:00 to 22:50. Shared baths: the Yumeji and Yumemi large baths. The inn sells several room types with a view open-air bath. There is also a private bedrock-bath room, Riraku, and a massage room. Water is alkaline sodium chloride, pH 8.59.

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