Dogo Onsen Dogo Miyu
道後温泉 道後御湯
Does Dogo Onsen Dogo Miyu allow tattoos? In a private bath
Thirty rooms on the hill, each with its own onsen tub and a deck facing Matsuyama Castle, in an inn that calls itself a house for modern toji and says exactly which bath a tattooed guest should use.
Dogo Miyu is unusual in saying both halves out loud. Its FAQ refuses tattooed guests the top-floor view bath and then, in the same sentence, tells them to use the open-air bath on their own balcony instead. Every one of the thirty rooms has one, filled with Dogo water piped up from the town, so the refusal costs you the view bath and nothing else. The inn also states plainly that the water in both is warmed and recirculated rather than free-flowing.
Show this at the front desk
刺青、タトゥーを入れている方の展望風呂のご入浴はお断りしております。客室露天風呂をご利用くださいませ。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Matsuyama STN
Iyotetsu tram, line 5 28 min
Matsuyama Castle
Dogo-Onsen STN 4 min on foot
Hotel location
Dogo Onsen bathhouse ticket Admission to the Dogo Onsen bathhouse, bought ahead. Dogo Onsen Honkan is one of the three city bathhouses listed on this page. 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 inn’s own FAQ, which both states the refusal and names the in-room bath as the alternative)
Read on: dogomiyu.jp/faq/
Best for: Travelers who want the refusal and the remedy written down by the same house
Thirty rooms, all Japanese-Western, all with an onsen open-air bath and a view deck over Matsuyama Castle, usable around the clock. The inn says the water in the room baths and the view bath is piped from Dogo and run on a heated recirculating system with no dilution, so it is not 源泉かけ流し. The view bath runs 15:00–24:00 and 06:00–10:00. Opened after a 2018 renovation; run by the same company as Hotel Tsubakikan and Dogo hakuro.
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