Zao Onsen, on the Uwanodai side with the slopes across the road Hotel

Takamiya Hotel Lucent

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Does Takamiya Hotel Lucent allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The hotel claims the strongest acid water in a town already famous for it, and pairs a rough-cut rock indoor bath with an open-air one under the trees. Two small baths beside them can be locked.

Lucent publishes no tattoo rule at all: its FAQ covers televisions, laundry and parking and never reaches the subject. So the shared baths are an unknown, and the listing rests on the two private baths instead. Ikoi is an indoor cypress tub and Nagomi a stone open-air one, both booked same day, both capped at two people.

Where it is

Sendai STN Yamagata STN change JR Senzan line rapid 84 min Morioka STN Fukushima STN Hotel location
Zao Onsen bus terminal
Sendai is the door to all of these. Akiu is 43 minutes on one bus from the station, with no change. Nyuto is the Komachi, JR’s Shinkansen across to Akita, as far as Tazawako, then a bus of 47 minutes, about 2 h 20 in all. Naruko is twelve minutes on the Shinkansen to Furukawa and three quarters of an hour up the Rikuu East line. Zao is the Senzan line rapid over the mountains to Yamagata, then a bus of 37 minutes up to the ski village. Takamiya Hotel Lucent · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

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, not a tattoo policy (the 貸切風呂 block on the 温泉 page); the hotel’s FAQ says nothing about tattoos

Read on: meito-lucent.com/hotspa/

Best for: A couple who wants the open-air tub locked to themselves at seven in the morning

The two private baths run 07:00–22:00 with cleaning from 10:00 to 13:00, booked in one-hour slots for 40 minutes of bathing. 3,300 yen for day visitors, 2,200 yen for house guests, and you can take both at once for 4,400 yen, or 3,300 yen as a guest. Capacity two. The house also runs a dry sauna from 16:00 to 22:00 and sells its guests a 100 yen ticket for the three public bathhouses. Takamiya group guests may use the baths at the group’s other Zao houses free between 08:00 and 10:00 and 13:00 and 20:00, with Miyamaso excluded.

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