Yumoto Takubokutei
湯元 啄木亭
Does Yumoto Takubokutei allow tattoos? In a private bath
Two rentable bathrooms, one done in Heisei modern and one in Showa retro, sit under a sky bath that runs eleven floors above the Yunokawa rooftops.
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.
Where it is
Hakodate STN
Hakodate city tram 31 min
Goryokaku
Hotel locationYunokawa Onsen STN
JR Hokkaido Rail Pass Five, seven or ten days of unlimited JR trains on the island, which covers the Hokuto limited express between Sapporo and Hakodate. The city tram out to Yunokawa is a separate fare, paid on board. 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 温泉 page; the hotel publishes no tattoo text on its own site or FAQ)
Read on: takubokutei.com/onsen/
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.
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