Yudanaka Ryokan ★★★★☆

Sekitei Rotenburo no Yado Tawaraya

石庭露天風呂の宿 俵や

Does Sekitei Rotenburo no Yado Tawaraya allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Tawaraya calls its stone-garden open-air bath the biggest in the area, and every evening it hands it out free, half an hour to a party, to whoever signed up at check-in.

Tawaraya publishes no tattoo policy. Its stone-garden open-air bath is split through the day into men’s, women’s and mixed hours, and from 19:00 to 22:00 it is let free of charge in private 30-minute turns, booked after you check in. A tattooed guest should take one of those turns and skip the shared hours.

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.. Sekitei Rotenburo no Yado Tawaraya · 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 bath page and FAQ)

Read on: tawarayaryokan.co.jp/hotsprings/index.htm

Best for: A large stone-garden open-air bath booked free for half an hour after dinner

Stone-garden open-air bath schedule: 16–17 men, 17–18 women, 18–19 mixed, 19–22 private turns (to midnight in busy seasons), 22–23 women, 23–6 mixed, 6–7 women, 7–9 mixed. Private turns are free, 30 minutes each, and can only be reserved after check-in, so book it as soon as you arrive. Shampoo is not to be used in the open-air bath.

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