Okudogo Ichiyunomori
奥道後 壱湯の守
Does Okudogo Ichiyunomori allow tattoos? In a private bath
Ten minutes up the Ishite valley the town stops and the canyon starts, and this hotel has five separate open-air tubs along it that you book one party at a time.
Nothing about tattoos appears anywhere on this hotel’s site, so the shared bath is an open question and we do not treat silence as a yes. What makes it worth booking is the other side of the building: five reservable open-air baths, each a separate stone, log or cypress tub filled with the Okudogo source and free-flowing, booked by the 45 minutes. Two of them are step-free.
Where it is
Matsuyama STN
Iyotetsu tram, line 5 28 min
Matsuyama Castle
Dogo-Onsen STN 4.1 km out
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 — bath structure, not a tattoo policy. The hotel publishes no rule on tattoos for its shared baths.
Read on: okudogo.co.jp/spa/
Best for: A source-fed open-air tub of your own in a river canyon, booked by the three-quarter hour
The reservable baths run 15:00–23:00, last booking 22:00, and cost 4,400 yen for 45 minutes with towels, 1,100 yen for each extra half hour; bookings open a month ahead. The huge shared open-air bath, Suimei-no-yu, covers about 1,508 square meters with seven tubs a side; the spring is an alkaline simple sulfur water at pH 9.4, 38°C at source and warmed to 42°C, running at 400 liters a minute. Day visitors can use the shared bath 15:00–20:00 for 1,100 yen. A free shuttle runs from in front of Dogo Onsen Station for staying guests, by reservation.
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