Hanamaki Onsen, Yumoto, the northernmost of the three linked hotels Onsen hotel

Hotel Koyokan

ホテル紅葉館

Does Hotel Koyokan allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Koyokan’s bath floor puts a rock open-air pool, a cool-down terrace and a gym side by side, and its guests reach Hanamaki Onsen’s private baths by the Rose Walk passage.

Like its two neighbors, Koyokan points guests to the four private baths in Hotel Hanamaki, which anyone can book by the 45 minutes. It has no private bath in its own building. The group publishes no tattoo rule.

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ホテル紅葉館に宿泊のお客様は、隣接するホテル千秋閣およびホテル花巻の大浴場を自由にご利用いただけます。

The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.

Where it is

Sendai is the door to all of these. Akiu is 43 minutes on one bus from the station, with no change. Nyuto is the Komachi, JR’s Shinkansen across to Akita, as far as Tazawako, then a bus of 47 minutes, about 2 h 20 in all. Naruko is twelve minutes on the Shinkansen to Furukawa and three quarters of an hour up the Rikuu East line. Zao is the Senzan line rapid over the mountains to Yamagata, then a bus of 37 minutes up to the ski village. Hanamaki is the Yamabiko to Kitakami, one stop on the local line and a bus, about 2 h 10. Higashiyama is the long one: the Shinkansen to Koriyama, the Ban-etsu West line over to Aizu-Wakamatsu and the loop bus, nearly four hours with the waits, and easier from Tokyo. Hotel Koyokan · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

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 (Koyokan page lists 貸切風呂（ホテル花巻）; the day-bathing page sells that bath to non-guests) — bath structure, not a tattoo policy

Read on: hanamakionsen.co.jp/koyokan/

Best for: A rock open-air bath in the building and a bookable private bath next door

Private baths: Hotel Hanamaki basement, 6:30 to 23:00, 45 minutes, extra charge. Koyokan’s own Koyo-no-yu has a rock open-air bath, a tsubo tub, a cool-down terrace and a fitness room on the same floor. Booking.com priced it lowest of the three linked hotels on 2026-11-10. The group site was crawled in full (500 URLs) and mentions tattoos nowhere.

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Others in the same group

More places in the hanamaki with private bath only

Hotel HanamakiHanamaki Onsen, the resort park in Yumoto at the north end of the valley → Hotel SenshukakuHanamaki Onsen, Yumoto, joined to Hotel Hanamaki by the Rose Walk → Hanamaki Onsen KashoenHanamaki Onsen, Yumoto, the group’s ryokan → Yamanokami Onsen YukaenYamanokami Onsen, on the Toyosawa River → Hotel ShidotairaShidotaira Onsen, on the Toyosawa River → Yusen ShidateShidotaira Onsen, beside Hotel Shidotaira →

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