Namari Onsen, where it is the only inn Ryokan with a toji (self-catering) wing and day bathing

Namari Onsen Fujisan Ryokan

鉛温泉 藤三旅館

Does Namari Onsen Fujisan Ryokan allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Hakuen-no-yu is a bath you stand in, cut by hand out of rock down to an average of 1.25 meters, and the spring comes up at the bottom of the tub instead of through a pipe. The same zelkova-wood inn keeps a smaller bath, Gin-no-yu, that you can lock for fifty minutes.

Fujisan Ryokan publishes no tattoo rule, but one of its four baths, Gin-no-yu, turns into a private bath for part of each day. Day visitors can have it to themselves from 11:00 to 15:00, and overnight guests from 15:00 to 21:00 in 50-minute slots, six groups a day, first come first served. The famous Hakuen-no-yu is a traditionally mixed standing bath with no private hours, and the inn says nothing about tattoos there, so do not read the mixed bath as an invitation.

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15時~21時の時間帯は、貸切風呂としてご利用いただけます(6組様限定/各50分/先着順)。以下の時間は日帰り専用の貸切の時間帯となります(11:00~15:00)

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

Where it is

Sendai STN Kitakami STN change to JR Tohoku line · 11 min Tohoku Shinkansen 55 min Yamagata STN Morioka STN Fukushima STN Hotel location
Hanamaki Onsen STN
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. Namari Onsen Fujisan Ryokan · 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 (the bathing page, 温泉・日帰り温泉) — bath structure, not a tattoo policy

Read on: namari-onsen-ryokan.com/spa/

Best for: Renting a small spring-fed bath of your own in the inn that has the deep standing bath

Hakuen-no-yu: the inn gives its average depth as 1.25 m, bathed standing, with the spring rising in the tub itself rather than pumped in, “湯船の深さが平均1.25mもある立居浴専用の温泉”; the brief’s figure of four and a half meters does not appear on the operator’s page. It is mixed, “元来混浴”, with women-only hours 6:00 to 7:00, 11:00 to 13:00 and 20:00 to 22:00, and it closes Fridays 10:00 to 14:00 for cleaning. No bathing wrap is mentioned. Shiraito-no-yu and Gin-no-yu swap between men and women by the hour; Katsura-no-yu is split by sex. All four baths are free-flowing 57° simple alkaline spring, even the showers. Day bathing 10:00 to 21:00 (last entry 20:00), adults 800 yen, 1,100 yen at Golden Week, Obon and New Year; check-in for day bathing may stop 14:00 to 17:00 on Saturdays and nights before holidays. Toji wing (湯治部, its own line 0198-25-2901): retro 6 to 8 mat rooms with no toilet or sink, a shared kitchen with the old 10-yen gas meters, a kotatsu for 495 yen a night, and meals optional; toji guests may enter the ryokan side only to bathe. A reservation-only shuttle on the Hanamaki south valley line stops at the inn three times a day inbound, once outbound. The inn’s buildings were registered as national tangible cultural property in February 2026, according to its sister inn’s site.

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