Kawakamiya Kasuitei
川上屋花水亭
Does Kawakamiya Kasuitei allow tattoos? In a private bath
Away from the shops and the crowds, on a bend of the Hida river, with a reservable open-air bath and suites that have both a cypress tub indoors and a granite one on the terrace.
Nothing on this inn’s site addresses tattoos, so its shared open-air bath is an unknown. The bath it reserves, Hi-no-yusen, and the suites that come with a cypress indoor tub and a granite open-air one are the parts a tattooed guest can count on.
Where it is
Nagoya STN
Hida, JR’s limited express on the Takayama line 1 h 50
Takayama STN
Hotel locationGero STN
JR Takayama-Hokuriku Area Tourist Pass Five days for 19,800 yen on JR trains between Nagoya, Gero, Takayama and Toyama, with six reserved seats, which covers the Hida from Nagoya to Gero both ways. Worth it if Takayama, Shirakawa-go or Kanazawa is on the same trip. 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 (kawakamiyakasuitei.jp/bath.html and /room.html).
Read on: kawakamiyakasuitei.jp/bath.html
Best for: A quiet riverside inn where the suite bath is cypress inside and granite out
The inn is candid about its shared Kawara-no-yu: a stone tub at 41 to 42°C, run on partial recirculation and filtration for hygiene, with fresh water always entering at the spout. The reservable bath is called Hi-no-yusen.
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