Tattoo friendly onsen in Daisetsuzan and Furano

Yumoto Ginsenkaku

湯元銀泉閣

This is the only house in Sounkyo that answers the question in writing. The inn says it refuses the large baths to guests with tattoos as a rule, then lifts the refusal if a single 8 × 10 cm cover seal hides the tattoo, and adds that the guest supplies the seal. Anything wider than a hand is therefore out of the shared baths, but the inn also keeps a family bath, booked by writing your name on the board at the bath entrance on the day, forty minutes a turn.

タトゥーなどを入れたお客様の大浴場のご利用は、原則お断りしています。ただし、8㎝☓10㎝のカバーシール1枚で見えないようカバーしていただいた場合は、この限りではありません。シールはお客様ご自身で持参願います。

Best for: A traveler carrying their own cover seals who wants the one Sounkyo bath that is filled straight from the source

Seven sources between 35 and 80°C are blended to temperature, so the inn says nothing is heated and no water is added; it claims 140 liters a minute. Spring type is given as 弱アルカリ性 低張性中性高温泉. Baths are open to staying guests around the clock; day bathing runs 14:00–20:00 all year, 800 yen for adults and 400 yen for children, with the foot bath and hand bath free. The family bath cannot be reserved in advance: it is a same-day self-booking board at the entrance, forty minutes per turn. Sauna 15:00–22:00, no cold plunge.

Choyo Resort Hotel

層雲峡温泉 朝陽リゾートホテル

Nothing on this hotel’s site says anything about tattoos, in either direction, so the shared baths are an unknown and should be treated as one. What the hotel does publish is four private baths in the basement spa wing it calls Iyashidokoro Yururu, open 15:00 to 22:50 with last reception at 22:00, 3,300 yen for fifty minutes for a room of two to four people, filled with the same spring water as the large baths. That is the answer here: book a turn at the desk and the question never comes up.

Best for: A couple or family who want fifty minutes of the hotel’s spring water behind a locked door, bookable the same day

Four private rooms, each for two to four people, on B1. Staying guests pay 3,300 yen for fifty minutes; day visitors pay the same 3,300 yen plus 500 yen a head entry and can only take the 15:00 or 16:00 slot. There are steps into both the large baths and the private baths, which the hotel states plainly in its accessibility answer. A free shuttle runs between this hotel and its sister house Choyotei so guests can bathe at both in house clothes; it stops when Choyotei closes for the season.

Hotel Taisetsu Onsen & Canyon Resort

ホテル大雪

This hotel refuses. Its bath page says that guests with tattoos are asked to refrain from bathing, and that sentence sits on the page that covers all three of its large baths, so read it as covering the rented canyon bath too. The way in is the room: the Wabo Sekka rooms each have their own open-air view bath on the canyon side, and nobody else uses it. The hotel does not say on that page whether the room bath is spring water or ordinary heated water, so ask when you book if it matters to you.

刺青・タトゥーが入った方のご入浴はご遠慮いただいております。

Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants the canyon view and is willing to pay for a room that owns its own bath

The three large baths are Tenka-no-yu, a canyon open-air bath on the third floor of the Taisetsu Sanso annex (5:00–12:30 and 15:00–24:00); Taisetsu-no-yu, a seventh-floor view bath in the west wing (12:30 to 10:00 the next morning); and Chinita-no-yu, a European-style bath on the first floor of the east wing (10:00 to 8:00 the next morning). Tenka-no-yu can also be rented privately, four parties a day, 50-minute slots at 15:00 and 16:00, 5,000 yen per use on top of the bathing fee, booked by the day before and not sold over Golden Week, Obon or New Year. Given the refusal on the same page, do not assume that rental is open to you. Wabo Sekka is the room type with the bath; the separate Yukihotaru rooms have shower booths or unit bathrooms only.

La Vista Daisetsuzan

ラビスタ大雪山

The hotel refuses tattoos in the large bath and says so in its own FAQ, then answers the question in the same breath: it tells tattooed guests to use the free private baths instead. There are three of them, called Shumari-no-yu after the red fox, and they take no reservation. You check the tag and the key at the door and walk in if one is empty, as often as you like, from 14:00 until 11:00 the next morning. There is no washing area inside, so rinse in the large bath area first or in your room.

当館では「刺青」が入った方の大浴場のご利用はご遠慮頂いております。他にも、館内に【無料貸切風呂】をご用意しておりますので、ご入浴の際は貸切風呂をご利用くださいませ。

Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants Asahidake’s spring water as often as they like without booking a slot or paying extra

The three private baths are Kukoro-no-yu, a rock bath; Kumichi-no-yu, a red-brown brick tub; and Kupo-no-yu, which pairs a ceramic tub with an open-air cypress one. All three are free and unreserved: 貸切風呂はご予約制ではございません。空きがあれば、ご自由にご利用いただけます. The large bath, Momuni-no-yu, runs 14:00 to 11:00 with the sauna shut 24:00–5:00. Source is Asahidake Onsen (spring name Taki-no-yu), free-flowing, a calcium-magnesium-sodium sulfate and chloride spring, colorless and odorless, pH 6.5 at about 40°C. The hotel does not take day bathers. Most rooms have shower stalls only; a few have unit baths.

Onyado Shikishimaso

御やど しきしま荘

The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and its two large baths, a wooden one and a stone one that swap between men and women, should be treated as unanswered. Two of its four room types settle it another way: the Premium Japanese-Western Suite and the Corner Suite both come with a half-open-air bath fed straight from the source, in the room, for you alone. Book one of those and the gorge bath is yours.

源泉かけ流し100%の天然温泉で、大浴場の内湯（木造り・石造りの男女入替り制）と露天風呂があります。

Best for: A gorge room with its own source-fed tub at the far end of a valley that has almost nothing left in it

Eighteen rooms. The two room types with a bath are the 源泉掛け流し半露天風呂付 特別和洋室 (26 m², up to four) and the 源泉掛け流し半露天風呂付 コーナー特別室 (26 m², up to five); the plain Japanese-Western and Japanese rooms have none. Spring type is magnesium-calcium-sodium sulfate, bicarbonate and chloride, and the inn publishes a metasilicic acid reading of 202.6 mg/L measured in June 2025. Check-in 15:00, check-out 10:00. Hagoromo Falls is about fifteen minutes on foot. Day bathing runs but closes on scattered dates, which the inn posts in its news column. Reached from Asahikawa Station by the number 66 Asahikawa Denki Kido bus, about ninety minutes, with a pickup from Asahidake Gensui Koen-mae that has to be arranged in advance.

La Vista Furano Hills

ラビスタ富良野ヒルズ

The hotel prints a flat refusal on its own bath page: guests with tattoos may not bathe in the ninth-floor Shiun-no-yu. Its parent chain publishes a different answer on this same hotel’s FAQ page, where tattoos are refused in principle but allowed if covered by up to two seals in one of three sizes, the largest 118 × 172 mm. The property page is the one enforced at the desk, so treat the large bath as closed. What is open is the three private baths, which are free, and that is the reason to book here.

※当ホテルでは、刺青・タトゥー等をされている方のご入浴はお断りしております。

Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants a Furano Station hotel with three private tubs and no extra charge for them

The three private baths are Ashibetsu, a rock bath and the largest; Shirakaba, a pot bath lined with birch; and Yamabuki, a cypress bath. All run at 40°C, are open 15:00 to 10:00 the next morning, are asked to be kept to about thirty minutes, and each has its own powder room and washing area behind an inner door. The large bath Shiun-no-yu is on the ninth floor on the hotel’s own source, a sodium chloride spring, with an indoor bath, a pot bath, an open-air bath and an utaseyu; the men’s side has a high-temperature dry sauna and a chilled cold bath, the women’s a nano-steam sauna. Sauna closed 01:00–05:00. The chain FAQ’s seal sizes are 85 × 105, 100 × 140 and 118 × 172 mm, two seals at most, and it says stocks are limited and not every property carries them.

Mori no Ryotei Biei

白金温泉郷 森の旅亭 びえい

The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths, so treat those as unanswered. Twelve of its seventeen rooms have an open-air bath of their own, and the inn states on its own information page that the room baths run on the source the same way the large baths do, with water or heat added only to hold the temperature. Five of those twelve are detached sukiya-style cottages with their own entrance and approach; the other seven are in the main building with an aohiba wood tub and a balcony to cool off on.

客室露天風呂＝源泉かけ流し（温度調整の為一部加水・加温の場合有り）

Best for: A detached cottage in the birch woods with its own open-air tub and no shared bath to negotiate

Seventeen rooms: five detached cottages with an open-air bath and a separate washing space, seven main-building rooms with an open-air bath and a balcony, three Japanese-Western rooms and two twins without. Spring type sodium-calcium-magnesium sulfate and chloride; Shirogane water has long been called 杖忘れの湯, the bath that makes you forget your walking stick. The whole building is non-smoking. The site warns that the inn is built on a slope and that stairs and level changes are unavoidable between the rooms and the lobby, baths and dining room. Day bathing 11:00–14:00, 1,200 yen for adults, cash only, closed Mondays, and day visitors may not use the sauna.