Tattoo friendly onsen in Hakodate and Yunokawa

HOTEL & SPA Century Marina Hakodate

センチュリーマリーナ函館

Cover it and you are in. The hotel stopped refusing tattooed guests on 1 April 2020 and published a notice, in Japanese and English, saying so: anything that fits under at most two of the hotel’s own 15 by 10 centimeter cover seals is welcome in the bath. The seals are sold at the front desk rather than given out, so buy them when you check in. That is the largest seal allowance the guide has recorded from any single hotel.

当ホテル指定のカバーシール15cm×10cm2枚までで覆えるサイズ

Best for: A large tattoo that will not fit under a business-hotel seal, and an infinity tub over the harbor

The notice explains the change in its own words: the hotel had refused tattooed bathers as a rule, then took account of fashion tattoos among younger Japanese and of one-point tattoos as identity among foreign visitors. Its English line reads that people with tattoos must hide them with up to two sheets of the 15cm x 10cm cover seals the hotel specifies, and that seals are provided for a price at the front desk. Spa Stella on the fourteenth floor, 05:30 to 24:30, sodium chloride strong saline; men get a mid-temperature loyly sauna, women an aroma mist salt sauna. Stella Deck, the infinity open-air bath, is on the fifteenth, same hours. The lounge upstairs runs 18:00 to 23:00.

Route Inn Grantia Hakodate Ekimae

ルートイングランティア函館駅前

Cover the tattoo completely and the bath is open. Route Inn Hotels states the rule once for the whole group, Grantia included, and this property publishes no exception: tattoos are refused, except where a cover seal hides them entirely. The bath page itself says nothing about tattoos either way, so the rule you are relying on is the group’s.

入れ墨(タトゥー)のある方のご入浴はお断りしております。ただし、カバーシールを用いて入れ墨(タトゥー)が完全に覆えている場合に限り、大浴場をご利用いただけます。

Best for: A real hot spring on the thirteenth floor, three minutes from the station, at business-hotel money

The group FAQ as read on 2026-09-18 states the rule but not a seal size, and does not say whether seals are sold on site; ask at the desk. Tabibito-no-yu is on the thirteenth floor, 15:00 to 02:00 and 05:00 to 10:00, on a chloride spring the hotel calls a warming bath. Guests only, no day use: 旅人の湯はご宿泊のお客様限定でご利用いただけます。 Breakfast is free when you book through the hotel’s own site.

Route Inn Grantia Hakodate Goryokaku

ルートイングランティア函館五稜郭

Same rule as its sister by the station, because it is the same group: refused unless a cover seal hides the tattoo completely. Nothing on this property’s own pages narrows or widens that. The bath is on the top floor, the fourteenth, with a relaxation room of massage chairs beside it.

入れ墨(タトゥー)のある方のご入浴はお断りしております。ただし、カバーシールを用いて入れ墨(タトゥー)が完全に覆えている場合に限り、大浴場をご利用いただけます。

Best for: Soaking at the Goryokaku end of town rather than down by the station

Bath 15:00 to 02:00 and 05:00 to 10:00 on the fourteenth floor, with massage chairs and foot machines in the room next to it. Breakfast is free when booked through the hotel’s own site. About 3.5 km from Hakodate Station, roughly fifteen minutes by streetcar.

Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei

湯の川プリンスホテル渚亭

Book one of the 120 rooms with its own open-air bath and the shared bath never comes into it. The hotel’s own FAQ says the room tubs can be used at any point during the stay, and its bath page counts them out by type: 74 rock tubs and 18 cypress tubs on the sea side, 28 rock tubs facing Mount Hakodate. Nothing on the site addresses tattoos in the men’s and women’s bath, so treat that bath as unanswered rather than open.

客室の露天風呂はいつでも入浴できますか？ 滞在中はいつでも入浴できます。

Best for: A tub on your own balcony set level with the floor, so the strait fills the whole view from the water

Room tubs: rock (94 rooms, wide enough for two adults), cypress (18 rooms, one adult, all sea side), and rock with a foot bath attached (8 rooms, all Mount Hakodate side). The hotel says the water is 源泉100%です。加水、加温等は行っておりません and gives the spring as sodium and calcium chloride. No family bath: 家族風呂はございません. No day-use bathing, deliberately, so the baths stay with overnight guests. Shared bath 15:00 to 10:00, sauna 15:00 to 24:00 and 07:00 to 10:00. Indoor heated pool free to guests, 15:00 to 22:00. School groups are turned away because so many rooms have tubs.

Hanabishi Hotel

花びしホテル

The answer here is a room with its own open-air tub on the hotel’s own spring. Every ground-floor room in the Suehirotei wing has one, the barrier-free room has one, and the Gagyutei suites that opened in May 2026 have one. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule anywhere on its site, and its FAQ says flatly that there is no rentable private bath, so the room tub is the only door that closes behind you.

貸切風呂、家族風呂はございません。

Best for: A spring-fed tub of your own on the ground floor, a few steps from the garden bath you can skip

The operator describes the Suehirotei ground-floor tubs as 源泉掛け流しの専用露天風呂 and the Gagyutei suite tubs as fed from the source. Shared baths, for anyone who wants them: Hishi-no-yu and Hana-no-yu on the first floor, with two and three garden open-air tubs, and Gagyu-no-yu on the seventh with city views, all 15:00 to 25:00 and 05:00 to 10:00. Auto-loyly Finnish sauna at about 92°C, 15:00 to 23:00 and 06:00 to 09:30, with an outdoor cold tub. Spring is ナトリウム・カルシウム－塩化物温泉.

Yumoto Takubokutei

湯元 啄木亭

Rent one of the two private baths and the question goes away for fifty minutes. The hotel sells them at 3,300 yen a session, 13:00 to 23:00 with last entry at 22:00, in a Heisei-modern room and a Showa-retro room, each with a television and a massage chair. The eleventh-floor sky bath is a different matter: the hotel answers the tattoo question nowhere on its own site, and its published answer elsewhere is no, so do not plan on it.

Best for: Fifty locked minutes with a massage chair, under a hotel whose shared bath is off the table

The two shared baths are the eleventh-floor 空中大浴殿 雲海, behind 30 meters of glass over the city, and the 空中露天風呂 いさりび, which looks out at the squid boats. Both run 13:00 to 10:00, closed 01:00 to 01:30 and 03:00 to 03:30 for cleaning; sauna 14:00 to 24:00 and 06:00 to 09:00. Day use 1,200 yen for adults and 600 for children, 06:00 to 09:00 and 13:00 to 21:00, and there is a monthly day-use pass at 11,260 yen. Part of the Noguchi Kanko group, which publishes no group tattoo rule.

Hakodate Yunokawa Onsen Umi to Hi, Hewitt Resort

函館湯の川温泉 海と灯／ヒューイットリゾート

The shared bath is closed to tattoos and the hotel says so in one line, so the two rentable open-air baths are the route in. Tsuki-no-yu and Hoshi-no-yu go by the hour at 3,850 yen, 14:00 to 23:00 with last entry at 22:00, and are reserved for overnight guests. Reserve at check-in and the refusal below no longer applies to you.

入れ墨のある方のご利用を固くお断りいたします。

Best for: An hour behind a locked door in a hotel whose big bath says no

The refusal is printed with two others, on drunkenness and on cameras, in the notes attached to the shared bath Tenkai: 入れ墨のある方のご利用を固くお断りいたします。/ 泥酔の方のご利用はご遠慮ください。/ カメラ、スマートフォン等、撮影機器の持ち込みはご遠慮ください。 The shared bath runs 05:00 to 11:00 and 14:00 to 25:00 and has a twelfth-floor infinity open-air tub, tatami-floored baths and jar baths. 221 rooms; buffet of about 150 dishes.

Kappo Ryokan Wakamatsu

割烹旅館 若松

Two rooms at Wakamatsu have a bath of their own, and they are the only tattoo-proof way in. The maisonette rooms in the Nanbo wing are the house’s only rooms with a view bath, and the Honkan special room Yachiyo has a cypress indoor tub. The ryokan publishes no tattoo rule and rents no private bath, and it does not say whether the room tubs carry the house spring, so read them as tubs rather than as onsen.

若松唯一の展望風呂を備えた和洋室

Best for: A two-story room with a bath upstairs, in a house that has been drawing its own water since 1922

Two maisonette rooms, about 110 square meters each, Japanese room downstairs and beds upstairs. Yachiyo, one room of about 90 square meters, recreates the suite the Showa emperor used in 1954 and has a cypress indoor bath. The shared baths are Hana-no-yu for women in cypress and Tsuki-no-yu for men in granite, plus a marble open-air bath over the strait, 05:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to 24:00. The house spring runs at 57.6°C from a well under the pavilion by the entrance, and the bath page gives it as 湯の川温泉（加水）、温泉掛け流し. Hakodate introduced an accommodation tax on 1 April 2026 and the ryokan bills it on top of the room rate.

Yunohama Hotel

湯の浜ホテル

Ask for the Tokaitei wing. Those are the hotel’s rooms with a bath of their own, and the hotel says the water is piped to every one of them straight from the source. The other seven room categories have no tub, and nothing on the site addresses tattoos in the shared bath, so the wing is the whole answer.

客室にしつらえたお客様専用のお風呂で、心ゆくまで温泉をお楽しみいただけるお部屋です。全部屋、源泉より直接お湯を引いております。

Best for: Your own spring-fed tub in a house that has been on this stretch of shore since 1928

Two springs in the building. The indoor side has four tubs, including a cedar bath, a bubble bath and a lying bath; the two rebuilt open-air baths are Taiyo on the sea side and Ginga on the town side. Spring is sodium and calcium chloride, described as a weak saline. Day use 13:00 to 20:00 at 1,200 yen for adults and 900 for children. No rentable private bath.

Tabist Chikuba Shinyotei

Tabist 竹葉新葉亭

One room here has its own open-air bath: the guest suite Fukuju, which looks onto the garden. The other 30 rooms in the east and south wings have an ordinary bath and shower and no outdoor tub, and the ryokan publishes nothing about tattoos, so Fukuju is the only booking that settles the question.

専用露天風呂では、四季折々に表情をかえる庭を眺められます。

Best for: A single garden suite with its own outdoor tub, in a kaiseki house that has been cooking since 1949

The two shared baths, Manyo-no-yu in stone and Chikurin-no-yu in cypress, each have a garden open-air tub and swap between men and women daily. The ryokan also sells a day-use package of a meal plus the bath. The operator does not state whether the Fukuju tub carries spring water. Rooms: Fukuju plus 18 in the east wing and 12 in the south.

KKR Hakodate

KKRはこだて

There is a family bath you can take by the hour for 1,000 yen, which is the cheapest locked door in Yunokawa. The house bath looks onto the garden and runs on the Yunokawa source at 65°C and pH 6.8, and day visitors are welcome in it from 11:00 to 21:00 for 1,000 yen. The lodge publishes no tattoo rule either way.

Best for: An hour in a family bath for the price of a single admission

Day use 11:00 to 21:00, 1,000 yen for adults, 500 for school-age children, free below school age. Family bath 1,000 yen an hour. Run by the national civil servants’ mutual aid federation but open to the public. Whether the family bath can be reserved ahead is not stated on the site.

Bourou Noguchi Hakodate

望楼NOGUCHI函館

The hotel rents no private bath and says so, then points at the room tubs in the same breath: the Suite and Wamodern rooms have a hot spring view bath, usable around the clock. The single rooms do not. Nothing on the site addresses tattoos in the top-floor open-air bath.

貸切風呂のご用意はございませんが、SUITEタイプとWAMODERNタイプのお部屋には温泉展望風呂をご用意しております。

Best for: A spring-fed window tub a hundred and fifty meters from the end of the streetcar line

Room types are Suite, Wamodern and Ohitorisama; only the first two have the view bath, and the Wamodern tubs were rebuilt on 23 December 2022. The shared bath is a top-floor open-air bath over the harbor. Part of the Noguchi Kanko group, which publishes no group tattoo rule.

La Vista Hakodate Bay ANNEX

ラビスタ函館ベイANNEX

The shared bath is closed to tattoos of any size and the hotel says so plainly, so take one of the three private baths instead. They sit on the ninth floor, cost nothing, need no reservation, and run around the clock: a ceramic tub, a brick tub and a cypress tub, about forty minutes each, with a lamp at the door and a QR code in the room that tells you whether one is free.

天然温泉の貸切風呂を3種類ご用意しております。ご予約の必要はございません。無料でご利用いただけます。

Best for: A free private tub at three in the morning with nobody to ask

The hotel’s own refusal reads 当館では大きさに関わらず、入れ墨・刺青・タトゥーが入った方の大浴場のご利用はご遠慮いただいております。 The private baths are for soaking only: wash in the shared bath or in your room. Shared bath Umisuzume-no-yu, women on the ninth floor and men on the tenth, 15:00 to 10:00, with a cypress indoor tub, a lying bath, an open-air tub and a dry sauna; the sauna is off between 01:00 and 05:00. Spring is a sodium chloride strong saline, pH 6.8 at 36.1°C. Run by Kyoritsu Maintenance, the Dormy Inn company, whose group FAQ allows cover seals at some properties; this one does not.