Kinugawa Onsen Hotel
鬼怒川温泉ホテルきぬがわおんせんホテル
Bathing & Water
Uses natural hot spring water
Open-air outdoor bath
Enclosed indoor bathing area
Dry heat sauna room
Confirmed on the individual bath sub-pages (spa/keikoku.php, spa/yuri.php), not the pre-crawled top-level spa page.
Capabilities
Private bath available for day-use visitors or hotel guests to reserve
Shared bathing area for all genders
Policies & Services
Allows entry with visible tattoos
Visible tattoos are not permitted in the large communal baths; guests may cover them with concealment stickers, or use a room/private (kashikiri) bath instead.
Welcomes children and families
Restaurant or dining open to visitors (not just hotel meal plans)
Shower, wash stations, soap and shampoo provided
Relaxation space for after bathing
On-site or nearby parking available
Views
RiverAbout
Kinugawa Onsen Hotel is a big resort hotel with two separate communal baths: a wood-built one called Keikoku-no-yu (渓谷の湯), styled after an old-fashioned hot spring retreat, and a stone-built one called Yuri (湯里), set with natural stones. Two reservable private baths, Toki and Kihada, each pairs an indoor tub with an outdoor one. The water is a plain alkaline spring that the hotel describes as gentle on kids and good for smoothing the skin. Visible tattoos aren't allowed in the communal baths, though a cover-up sticker or one of the private baths gets around that. The hot spring itself goes back some 300 years to the Edo period, once limited to lords and monks returning from pilgrimages to nearby Nikko before it opened up to everyone. These days the hotel leans family resort more than quiet retreat: buffet and private-room dining, a seasonal indoor pool, table tennis, a retro arcade, and evening entertainment in the lobby.
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Last updated July 17, 2026