Yuzawa, on the rise above the town center Onsen ryokan-hotel ★★★★☆

Hotel Futaba

水が織りなす越後の宿ホテル双葉

Does Hotel Futaba allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Yama-no-yu and Sato-no-yu hold twenty-one tubs between them, a cave bath and a steam bath among them, and 29 of Futaba’s rooms have a ceramic open-air tub filled with onsen water day and night.

Futaba publishes no tattoo rule. It does have 29 rooms with a ceramic open-air bath filled with onsen water around the clock, and a private bath rented by the 45 minutes at check-in, so a tattooed guest can stay without touching the shared baths.

Where it is

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.. Hotel Futaba · 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, bath structure rather than a tattoo policy (room and hot-spring pages)

Read on: hotel-futaba.com/page3

Best for: Families who want a big onsen hotel but an open-air tub of their own

Open-air-bath rooms: a ceramic outdoor tub plus a Japanese-style indoor bath. The hotel says the outdoor tub is onsen and the indoor one is not: 露天風呂は温泉をひいておりますので、いつでもお部屋で温泉をお楽しみいただけます。和風内風呂は温泉ではございません。 Private bath 45 minutes, 2,000 yen, 7:00–22:45, booked only at check-in. The VIP room adds an open-air bath and indoor bath for up to seven. Large baths: Sora-no-yu on the top floor, and Yama-no-yu and Sato-no-yu with ten and eleven tubs.

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