Shidotaira Onsen, on the Toyosawa River Large onsen hotel

Hotel Shidotaira

湯の杜ホテル志戸平

Does Hotel Shidotaira allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A 25-meter bath runs along the river at Shidotaira, and a two-story hall behind it hides a sauna built like a cave. Three smaller baths, one of them with its own rock pool outdoors, are rented by the session.

Shidotaira has three private baths you rent by the session, and the hotel calls them completely private. The largest, Kogane-no-yu, has an indoor tub and a rock open-air bath for 3,000 yen; the pottery bath and the hiba bath are 2,000 yen each. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its two big bath halls, so the rental baths are the answer.

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眺めを独り占めできる完全プライベートの3つの贅沢

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 Shidotaira · 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 (温泉/サウナ page) — bath structure, not a tattoo policy

Read on: shidotaira.co.jp/hotspring_spa/

Best for: Choosing between a rock open-air bath, a pottery tub and a hiba tub, each rented for yourself

Private baths take bookings 11:30 to 21:00 (last 20:30); the page links to online booking. Kogane-no-yu (黄金の湯) comes with an open-air bath, 3,000 yen; Toki-no-yu (陶器の湯) and Hiba-no-yu (ひばの湯) are 2,000 yen. The shared halls are Tenga-no-yu, a 25 m viewing bath with a lava-stone sauna, and Hitakami-no-yu, two stories high with a cave sauna for self-loyly; they swap sexes on odd and even days. Day bathing 11:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 20:00 entry, adults 1,000 yen on weekdays. The whole hotel closed for maintenance on 16 and 17 September 2026. A shuttle runs from Shin-Hanamaki and Hanamaki stations, 100 yen a person from 1 September 2026. The hotel also runs an AI chat assistant (talkappi) on its site, which was not queried.

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