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Shibu Onsen Daimaruya

渋温泉 大丸屋

Does Shibu Onsen Daimaruya allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A century-old inn of five rooms whose open-air bath is bigger than the house seems to need, about six people’s worth, and run as a private bath.

Daimaruya calls itself the inn with the private open-air bath and says nothing about tattoos. The open-air bath is private and holds about six; the indoor baths are split by sex and shared. Take the open-air one.

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.. Shibu Onsen Daimaruya · 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 home page)

Read on: shibu-daimaruya.com/

Best for: A cheap room-only stay with a private open-air bath big enough for a group

Five or six rooms (the page gives both), up to 20 guests. Men’s and women’s indoor baths, each about six tatami in size, and a private open-air bath for about six, with a second small tub for adjusting the temperature. No filtering or recirculation. New bookings with dinner are suspended: room-only and breakfast plans, with seven restaurants within a few minutes’ walk and a microwave for guests. The inn’s own booking page is in Japanese only.

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