Horita Onsen
堀田温泉
Does Horita Onsen allow tattoos? Yes!
The staging post on the old road to Yufuin and Hita, rebuilt in 2003 as the municipal bath for the Horita district. It is the city bath with a proper open-air tub, planted and walled in rock.
Horita is the municipal bath for its district, and the city marks it tattoo-friendly in the facility data it maintains itself. The 2026 map the city publishes for tattooed visitors lists it among the shared baths, not the private ones. That applies to the indoor tub and the garden bath outside.
The bath
The water is a simple spring brought down from the Horita source and run through without recirculation, and the reason to come this far up the hill is the tub outside. It is walled and floored in set rock with planting around it that changes through the year, which no other 300-yen bath in the city has. Inside there is a plain indoor tub and a rest room to sit in afterward.
The 2003 building was the first municipal bath in Beppu to get an ostomate-accessible toilet, and it has a ramp, level floors throughout, rails on the tub and in the changing room, and a bathing wheelchair to transfer into.
Open 06:30 to 22:30, closed 14:00 to 15:00 for cleaning and on the first Wednesday. Adults 300 yen, children 100, and the ten-ticket book at 2,700 yen works here and nowhere else. A soap, shampoo and rinse set is 100 yen, the dryer is free, and there are about thirty spaces in the car park.
What is good about it
- A planted, rock-walled open-air bath, for the same 300 yen as the indoor tub.
- Bus 36 stops outside the door, thirteen minutes from the west exit of Beppu STN.
- Thirty parking spaces and a free dryer, which the baths down in town cannot offer.
Getting there
3.8 km out of town on the old road to Yufuin, so take the bus: number 36 from the west exit of JR Beppu STN to the Horita Onsen-mae stop, about thirteen minutes, and the bath is at the stop.
Beppu STN · JR Nippo line; the Sonic limited express runs in from Hakata
Not a walk: 3.8 km uphill from the station.
Bus 36 (Yufuin line) from the west exit to Horita Onsen-mae, about 13 minutes.
Where it is
Hakata STN
JR Sonic limited express 1 h 55
Kokura STN
Oita STN
✈Oita Airport
Beppu STN
Location
What happens when you arrive
Check in and go to the bath. There is no seal to buy and nothing to declare.
How we know
Confirmed from the operator (Beppu City): the タトゥー可 attribute on its tourism listing, dated 30 June 2026, and the city’s 2026 tattoo-friendly map
Read on: beppu-tourism.com/onsen/horita-onsen/
タトゥー可
The operator’s own wording on that page. Nothing here needs showing at a desk. If anyone does ask, show them this. It is the operator’s own wording.
Best for: An open-air tub among planted rock and trees for 300 yen
06:30–22:30, closed 14:00–15:00 for cleaning, 300 yen, closed the first Wednesday. Indoor bath and a rock-set open-air bath, a rest room, an ostomate-accessible toilet and a bathing wheelchair. About thirty parking spaces. Bus 36 from Beppu Station west exit stops outside, 13 minutes.
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