Yuzawa, five minutes’ walk west of the station Ryokan ★★★★☆

Shosenkaku Kagetsu

松泉閣花月

Does Shosenkaku Kagetsu allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Kagetsu sets out spring water to drink after the bath, and runs its private bath and room tubs purely on the source while putting a filter only on the big baths.

Kagetsu says nothing about tattoos. Its open-air-bath rooms carry free-flowing source water, and the Danran private bath, with an indoor and an outdoor tub, can be booked for 45 minutes. Either keeps you out of 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.. Shosenkaku Kagetsu · 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 onsen pages)

Read on: shousenkaku-kagetsu.com/spa/index.html

Best for: A private 100 percent free-flowing bath in a small inn close to the station

Open-air-bath rooms named Tatsu, I, Ne, Fusu and Sara (立, 居, 寝, 臥, 更), 47–94 m², each marked ※露天風呂は源泉かけ流し. Private bath Danran: 2,000 yen plus tax for 45 minutes, starts 14:00–23:00, book at the desk by 23:00 or in advance; the inn says the private bath is 100 percent free-flowing while the large baths add a filter. Large baths open 24 hours and swap at midnight.

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