Yuzawa, two minutes from the station’s west exit Ryokan ★★★★☆

Echigo no Oyado Inamoto

越後のお宿 いなもと

Does Echigo no Oyado Inamoto allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Two minutes from the station, with a free foot bath at the front door, and four rooms whose tubs take the source water straight from the ground.

Inamoto’s shared baths are closed to anyone with a tattoo. Four of its rooms have their own bath on free-flowing spring water, and a barrier-free private bath on the same water can be booked ahead, so a stay here still gets you into the onsen.

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刺青・タトゥーのあるお客さまのご入場はお断りしております。

The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.

Where it is

Tokyo STN Joetsu Shinkansen 1 h 19 Hotel location
Echigo-Yuzawa 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.. Echigo no Oyado Inamoto · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Tokyo Wide Pass Covers the Joetsu Shinkansen from Tokyo to Echigo-Yuzawa, and on to GALA Yuzawa in the ski season. 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 (ご利用時のお願い on the onsen page; room baths and private bath on the guest room and onsen pages)

Read on: oyadoinamoto.jp/onsen/

Best for: Stepping from the Shinkansen into a room with its own spring-fed tub, two minutes away

Rooms with a 源泉かけ流し bath: special room Yukitsubaki (551) with a view bath, and three rooms with a half-open-air bath (462, 465, and a barrier-free room). The barrier-free room’s tub has three steps; guests who cannot manage them are offered the barrier-free private bath, handrails, 15:00–22:00, booked in advance. Free foot bath Karakasa-tei at the front door, open to anyone. Same bath wording as NASPA New Otani’s spa page.

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