Saryo Souen
茶寮宗園
Does Saryo Souen allow tattoos? In a private bath
Nine of the detached rooms here have their own open-air bath looking into a garden of eight thousand tsubo, each one named rather than numbered.
Souen publishes nothing about tattoos, and its shared baths should be treated as unanswered. The answer here is the hanare: nine detached rooms, each with its own open-air bath, named individually on the inn’s room page. Book one of those and you bathe alone. The tenth detached room, Saotome, has only an indoor heated tub, so it is not the same thing.
Where it is
Sendai STN
Takeya Kotsu’s Sendai Western Liner 43
Yamagata STN
Morioka STN
Fukushima STN
Hotel locationAkiu Onsen Yumoto STN
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 inn’s own 客室 page lists 露天風呂付客室 九室 among the hanare and names each one)
Read on: saryo-souen.com/room/
Best for: A detached room in a sukiya-built garden house with an open-air bath on its own veranda
Twenty-six rooms in a sukiya-style house set in a garden of about eight thousand tsubo. The nine detached rooms with an open-air bath are Taizan, Asahi, Tsukikage, Hourai, Shikishima, Saga, Shinonome, Kakkou and Kiritsubo. Souen belongs to the Mitoya group, and readers should know that the group’s other Akiu house, Hotel New Mitoya, publishes a flat refusal of tattooed bathers on its own site; Souen publishes no such line, but it publishes no permission either. No day bathing. Kaiseki dinners built on Sanriku and Sendai Bay seafood.
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