Akanko Onsen, lakefront in the middle of the village beside New Akan Hotel Ryokan ★★★★☆

Akan Tsuruga Bessou Hinanoza

あかん鶴雅別荘 鄙の座

Does Akan Tsuruga Bessou Hinanoza allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Twenty-five suites on the Lake Akan shore, each with its own hot-spring tub open to the air, which is the whole design of the place: the shared floor is optional and the private one is not.

The villa annex publishes the same refusal as the rest of the Tsuruga group, and its wording is unusually specific: tattoos are refused in the large bath, and the sentence names sticker types as included rather than as a remedy. Read that as no cover-seal route. It does not matter much here, because the same site states that every room in the house has its own hot-spring open-air bath. Book any room and you never need the shared floor.

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入れ墨(刺青)やタトゥー(シール類含む)をされているお客様の大浴場のご利用はご遠慮いただいております。

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

Where it is

Kushiro STN Akan Bus, Akan line about 2 h Sapporo STN Hakodate STN Asahikawa STN Hotel location
Akanko bus center
Sapporo is the door to all of these. Asahikawa is 1 h 25 on the Kamui limited express, Obihiro 2 h 42 on the Tokachi and Kushiro 4 h 04 on the Ozora; buses carry on from there to Sounkyo, Asahidake, Tokachigawa, Lake Akan and Utoro. Closer in, Noboribetsu is about 1 h 45, Jozankei 56 minutes by coach, Toyako Onsen 2 h 20 and Niseko about 3 h 25. Akan Tsuruga Bessou Hinanoza · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Hokkaido Rail Pass Five, seven or ten days of unlimited JR trains on the island, which covers the Ozora limited express from Sapporo to Kushiro. The Akan Bus from Kushiro to the lake, 2,750 yen, is paid separately. 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 (the tattoo answer and the all-rooms bath answer both in the inn’s own FAQ)

Read on: hinanoza.com/faq/

Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants the question settled at the door of their own room, on the lake, with no negotiation at all

The inn states 当館の客室には全室、温泉露天風呂がついております, so the private tub is not a room-type upgrade here, it is the standard. This is the most expensive house in the village by a wide margin. It shares an operator and a reservation desk with Akan Yuku no Sato Tsuruga and THE FOREST Akan, and it is the group house where the structure answer is cleanest.

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