Hanamaki Onsen, Yumoto, joined to Hotel Hanamaki by the Rose Walk Large onsen hotel

Hotel Senshukaku

ホテル千秋閣

Does Hotel Senshukaku allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Senshukaku’s big bath gained a falling-water spout and a one-person tsubo tub in its 2022 renovation, and for part of the year the women’s side becomes a rose bath.

Senshukaku has no private bath of its own, but its page lists the four private baths next door at Hotel Hanamaki as part of its bathing, and those baths are sold to anyone. Walk over by the Rose Walk passage and book a 45-minute slot. The group publishes no tattoo rule.

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ホテル千秋閣に宿泊のお客様は、隣接するホテル花巻およびホテル紅葉館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 Senshukaku · 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 (Senshukaku 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/senshu/

Best for: A Hanamaki Onsen room with private baths one building away

The quote shows the guests’ right to the neighboring baths; the private baths themselves are in Hotel Hanamaki’s basement, 6:30 to 23:00, 45 minutes, extra charge. Senshukaku’s own Senshu-no-yu added a tsubo tub and a falling-water bath in December 2022, and the women’s side runs a rose bath for part of the year. The group site was crawled in full (500 URLs) and mentions tattoos nowhere.

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