Tattoo friendly onsen in Higashi-Izu

Hotel Cetus Royal

ホテルセタスロイヤル

The hotel refuses tattooed guests in its shared baths as a rule, with one written exception: a tattoo hidden under a single 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) cover seal is accepted. You bring the seal yourself, because the hotel does not supply one. Anything too large for one seal is turned away, and the pool refuses tattoos of any size, so larger work means booking one of the two private family baths at check-in.

タトゥーなどを入れたお客様の大浴場のご利用は、原則お断りしています。ただし、8㎝☓10㎝のカバーシール1枚で見えないようカバーしていただいた場合は、この限りではありません。シールはお客様ご自身で持参願います。

Best for: travelers with one small tattoo who want a big rock pool of free-flowing spring water a short walk from the station

One seal only, brought from home. The large open-air bath is about 100 meters from the main building, has no soap or shampoo, and closes in heavy rain. The two private family baths, Nozomi-no-yu and Senri-no-yu, run 45 minutes a group and are booked at the front desk at check-in only; the page lists no fee. One top-floor room has its own free-flowing open-air tub and is sold by phone only. The pool page refuses tattoos regardless of size.

Atagawakan

熱川館

Atagawakan’s FAQ asks guests with a tattoo to cover it with a seal before using the large baths, and names no size. The pool refuses tattoos outright, seals included. Four private baths, Tane, Me, Tsubomi and Hana, are reserved by the hour on the inn’s own free-flowing spring.

お客様の職業に関わらず、刺青・タトゥー（シール類を含む）のあるお客様のご入浴については、シールを貼るなどご対応後にご利用をお願いします

Best for: travelers who want a full hour in a private cypress bath a short walk from the station

Four private baths under the name Tsubaki, open 7 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 10 p.m., reserved in one-hour units. The hot spring page gives no fee. The private baths and the open-air bath are free-flowing; the large indoor bath mixes free-flowing and recirculated water. Only the special room Asahi, a 95-square-meter Japanese-Western room, has its own open-air bath.

Futari no Yuyado Yubana Mankai

ふたりの湯宿 湯花満開

The inn answers the tattoo question in its FAQ with a yes. It has no men’s or women’s hall at all, only six private baths that lock from the inside, so you never share water with another guest. All six are free and need no reservation.

Ｑ：入れ墨、タトゥーがあっても入浴して大丈夫ですか？ Ａ：はい、ご利用いただけます。当館は6つの貸切温泉のみのため、大浴場で他のお客様と一緒になることはありません。入れ墨・タトゥーのあるお客様も、周りを気にすることなく、プライベートな温泉をゆっくりとお楽しみいただけます。

Best for: couples with tattoos who want to walk into any free bath, lock the door and stay 40 minutes

Three open-air private baths on the fourth floor (3 p.m. to 2 a.m. and 5 to 9:30 a.m.) and three indoor ones on the first floor (3 p.m. to midnight and 6:30 to 9:30 a.m.). No fee and no booking: if the door is unlocked, the bath is yours, and the inn asks for about 40 minutes a turn. The Daimonji bath has a dry sauna. Day visitors can use the first-floor baths from 3 to 6 p.m. for ¥2,000 a person, towels included. Trip.com lists the inn as adults only. Some plans are cash only and the bathing tax is paid in cash.

Izu Retreat Atagawa Suiko by Onko Chishin

伊豆リトリート 熱川粋光 by 温故知新

There is no shared bath of any kind here. Each of the 16 rooms has its own open-air tub of free-flowing spring water, and the hotel’s FAQ says guests with tattoos may use the room baths freely. It asks only that tattoos stay out of other guests’ sight in the public areas.

Q入れ墨、タトゥーが入っていても入浴して大丈夫ですか？A入れ墨、タトゥーが入っているお客様も、客室のお風呂はご自由にご利用いただけます。施設内では他のお客様に見えないようご配慮をお願いいたします。

Best for: travelers with large tattoos who want a sea-view spring tub of their own and no shared bath to negotiate

Opened November 1, 2025 in a former Atagawa hotel. 16 rooms in six types, about 87 to 200 square meters, all facing the sea. Two Former Grand Bath Suites keep the old public bath as a private open-air pool of about 19 square meters, with a sauna; the corner and lounge suites also have private saunas. No day use, no early check-in, stays for two or more guests. Dinner is at the restaurant at 6, 6:30 or 7 p.m. Cover tattoos in the lobby, bar and restaurant.

Tsuruya Kisshotei

つるや吉祥亭

The inn refuses any tattoo in its shared baths, down to a single small fashion piece, and says a bather seen with one will be asked to leave. The same FAQ answer points tattooed guests to the private baths instead: book one and use it. There are four, at ¥2,000 for 45 minutes. The inn also asks you to keep tattoos covered around the building, with a jacket if needed.

大小にかかわらずワンポイントのファッションタトゥーを含む刺青のあるお客様の入浴はお断りしております。場内でお見かけした場合、施設利用規則により、退場していただきます。貸切風呂をご予約の上、ご利用ください。 また、館内では刺青露出もご遠慮ください。上着などを着用いただけます様、ご協力をお願いします。

Best for: guests with tattoos who want a half-open rock bath over the sea for 45 minutes and are happy to cover up in the corridors

Four private baths: two jet baths, Shikinejima and Kozushima, and two half-open rock baths, Toshima and Oshima. ¥2,000 for 45 minutes, 2 to 10 p.m. and 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., booked at the front desk after arrival. Three room types have their own garden open-air tub in cypress, Izu stone or rock, and the inn says all hot water in the rooms comes from its own spring. The building is old timber with no elevator. Staying guests get free entry to the seaside public bath Kuroneiwaburo across the road, which publishes no tattoo rule and was closed by typhoon damage in October 2026.

Ryugu no Tsukai

自家源泉の宿 竜宮の使い

Asked whether a tattooed guest can use the large bath, the hotel’s FAQ apologizes and says it refuses. The next line says a palm-size tattoo cover is on sale at the front desk for anyone who wants one, without saying in so many words that a covered tattoo will be let in. Until the desk confirms that, count on the four private baths, ¥1,650 for 40 minutes, or one of the two family rooms with a spring-fed bathroom.

タトゥー・刺青を入れてますが大浴場に入れますか 申し訳ございません。 タトゥー・刺青のある方のご利用はお断りいたしております。 手のひらサイズのタトゥー隠しをフロントにて販売しておりますのでご希望の方はフロントへお声掛けください。

Best for: day trippers and budget travelers who want a private tiled bath over the sea by the hour

The four private baths, Shinki, Ryujin, Kaiya and Gekko, start on the hour from 3 p.m., last start 10 p.m., 40 minutes for ¥1,650 a room; the key is at the front desk and day visitors can add one to the ¥1,100 day-use fee. Bathers set the mix of spring and cold water at the tub with a valve. Two corner family rooms have a bathroom fed with spring water. The mixed infinity open-air bath needs a swimsuit or the rental bathing wrap. The rooftop footbath is free. Ask at the desk whether a palm-size cover opens the shared halls before relying on it.

Itoen Hotel Atagawa

伊東園ホテル熱川

The hotel’s hot spring page refuses bathers with tattoos, and the Itoen chain’s FAQ on the same site says the large bath and open-air bath are closed to them as a rule and to use the bath in the room or a private bath instead. Here the private bath is an open-air one with two ceramic tubs and a sea view, ¥2,200 for 50 minutes, booked on the day. The indoor pool also refuses tattoos.

※刺青・タトゥーのある方の入浴をお断りいたします。 / 刺青・タトゥーなどを入れている方の、大浴場・露天風呂のご入浴は原則お断りしております。各部屋に備え付けのお風呂か、貸切風呂をご利用ください。

Best for: budget travelers with tattoos who want a 50-minute open-air soak above the Atagawa rooftops

Private open-air bath: five set slots between 3 and 9:40 p.m., 50 minutes, ¥2,200 with bath and face towels, booked the same day. It has a light roof and closes in rain or strong wind. The hotel also sells Japanese rooms with an open-air bath; the page does not say what water fills them.

Katasekan Hiina

片瀬館 ひいな

The inn publishes no tattoo rule, so nothing here is a promise about the shared baths. What it does publish is seven private baths that cost nothing and need no reservation: six open-air ones facing the sea and one indoor family bath. You go in when the door is unlocked and lock it behind you. Eleven rooms also have their own open-air tub.

Best for: anyone who would rather try six sea-view private baths in an evening than sit in a shared one

Six free private open-air baths, 3 to 10 p.m. and 6:30 to 9:30 a.m., and one free private indoor family bath for five to seven people, 4 p.m. to 9:30 a.m. No reservations: first come, first served, as often as you like. Ten rooms have a Shigaraki ceramic open-air tub that the inn says is basically for one person; one special room has a cypress tub for about five.

Inatori Akao Hotel

稲取赤尾ホテル

The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It does give every staying guest seven private baths at no charge, two of them open-air, all fed with free-flowing water from its own spring and used whenever one is free. Many rooms have a spring-fed tub as well. Treat the two large shared baths and the pool area as unconfirmed and ask first.

Best for: families and couples who want to work through seven themed private baths without paying for any of them

Seven private baths, two open-air (Itsuki-no-yu, with a day bed, and Nagomi-no-yu, open to the sky) and five indoor, each with a different theme. All free, used when vacant. No day-use bathing: the baths are for staying guests only. The spring is not diluted or heated; each bathroom has a cold tap for adjusting the temperature. Rooms come with cypress or ceramic open-air tubs, half-open-air tubs or indoor spring tubs depending on type.

Senoumi Bettei Umiusagi

石花海別邸 海うさぎ

The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Its bathing is built around four private open-air baths on the seventh floor, named for the four seasons, free and used without a reservation whenever one is empty. A few rooms also have an open-air tub of their own. The big shared baths belong to the main house, Senoumi, which asks tattooed guests to stay out of them.

Best for: couples who want a cypress tub to themselves over the sea without booking or paying for it

Four private open-air baths on the seventh floor: Haru-usagi, Natsu-usagi, Aki-usagi and Fuyu-usagi (spring, summer, autumn and winter). Free, no reservation, open from the afternoon to 11:30 p.m. and 5:30 to 9 a.m.; the hot spring page gives a 3 p.m. start and the FAQ 2 p.m. Bring the bath towel from your room. Rooms 506 to 508 and room 706 have their own open-air bath.

Bousui

望水

The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Every room is given one free 50-minute session in a private gazebo, a seafront pavilion with its own open-air bath, and there are four of them. Two larger premium gazebos can be reserved ahead for 90 minutes at ¥13,200. That is a full private bath for any guest; ask the inn before using the shared halls.

Best for: couples who want a pavilion and an open-air tub to themselves at the water's edge, included in the stay

Private gazebos, collectively Toki-no-Nagi: Nami-makura, Hi-no-Nagori, Ukifune and Sazanami, 56 to 93 square meters, open 2 p.m. to 10 a.m. One 50-minute use a room is free; the type and time are settled after you arrive, so late arrivals may not get their first choice. An extra hour can be added as a paid option. Premium gazebos of 100 and 138 square meters: 90 minutes, ¥13,200, reserved in advance on the inn’s site or by phone. Water is added to the free-flowing source to bring the temperature down.

Isaribi

いさり火

The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and its layout makes one unnecessary. All 13 rooms have their own open-air bath, usable around the clock, and even the large bath and open-air bath downstairs are handed over for private use, without a reservation, from 3 p.m. to 11 the next morning. A guest here never has to share a tub.

Best for: anyone who wants a stay in which every bath, large or small, is used alone

Room baths are open 24 hours. The basement large bath and the open-air bath beside it are let privately from 3 p.m. to 11 a.m., no reservation. No day-use bathing. Check-out is noon. The whole inn is non-smoking, e-cigarettes included. Most rooms are Western twins for two; rooms 103, 105, 106, 203, 205 and 206 take four to six.

Oku-Atagawa Narashino-no-Sato Gyokusui

奥熱川 奈良偲の里 玉翠

The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Each of its 13 rooms has its own free-flowing spring bath, half-open-air or fully open-air, and every room also gets 40 free minutes in the private open-air rock bath in the bamboo grove. A tattooed guest can bathe well here without entering the shared halls; ask the inn before using those.

Best for: couples after a quiet inland inn where the bath in the room is the main one

The private open-air bath Obitoke is free for 40 minutes a room, with the slot fixed at check-in so that every party gets one. The detached room Muro has two open-air tubs, one cypress and one Izu stone. Trip.com lists the inn as adults only.

Izu Hotel Resort & Spa

伊豆ホテル リゾート&スパ

The hotel’s FAQ keeps tattoos out of the large bath and tells guests to use the spring bath in their room. All 26 rooms have a hot spring open-air bath on their own terrace, facing the Pacific and the Izu islands, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared bath at all. The shared bath is a single deep open-air pool for each sex; ask the hotel before using it.

入れ墨（刺青）、タトゥーがある方の大浴場のご利用はご遠慮いただいております。

Best for: couples who want a terrace tub with a long sea view and are content never to see the shared bath

Tub size varies by room type and the hotel says so plainly: the Premier and some Deluxe terraces have the largest tubs, and several types are marked as having a smaller one. The shared bath is an open-air pool 125 cm deep, 6 to 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to midnight; the men’s side has one shower and no washing stations, so the hotel asks guests to wash in their rooms. The whole property is non-smoking, terraces included.

Inatoriso

海一望 絶景の宿 いなとり荘

The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It rents two private open-air baths on its top floor, Mikazuki and Mangetsu, at ¥2,200 for 50 minutes, and sells twelve rooms with a free-flowing spring tub of their own. Either lets a tattooed guest bathe with the sea in front and nobody else in the water. Ask before using the shared baths.

Best for: couples who want a rooftop tub at sunset for 50 minutes and a noon check-out

Private open-air baths Mikazuki and Mangetsu, eighth floor: ¥2,200 for 50 minutes, 4 to 10 p.m. (last booking 9 p.m.) and 7 to 11 a.m. (last booking 10 a.m.); they can be reserved ahead or on the day, and the hotel recommends booking ahead. Twelve rooms have an open-air or half-open-air spring tub the hotel calls free-flowing. The shared baths are filtered and recirculated with part of the water run off, and diluted because the source is 80°C. Check-out is noon.

Taberu Oyado Hamanoyu

食べるお宿 浜の湯

The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Most of its room types have an open-air bath of their own, more than twenty of them, and it rents out three private bath suites by the hour, two with saunas. Those cover a tattooed guest fully; ask the inn about the rooftop shared baths before using them.

Best for: travelers who want a room with its own sea-view tub, dinner brought to the room and a private sauna suite as an extra

Private suites, each booked on the room tablet after check-in: L’Ange, a 110-square-meter terrace and spa with an open-air bath, a lie-down bath and a sauna, ¥6,600 for 60 minutes a group; Hoshi-no-umi, 95 square meters with a dry sauna and open-air terrace, ¥6,050 for 60 minutes; and Tsuki-no-fune, with a tub wide enough for two to stretch out. There is also a private bedrock bath, booked by 6 p.m. on the day.

Hotel Shinayoshi

ホテル志なよし

The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private view baths, Taiheiyo and Oshima, each a single tub facing the open sea, available from 3 to 11:30 p.m. Use those; the shared baths are unconfirmed for tattooed guests.

Best for: travelers who like an unpolished, old-fashioned hotel and a private tub with the Pacific in front

Private view baths Taiheiyo (the text calls it cypress, the photo caption ceramic) and Oshima (ceramic), 3 to 11:30 p.m. The page gives no fee and no booking method. A private bedrock bath heated by the spring costs ¥2,000 a person for two or ¥3,000 for one, 50 minutes, starting on the hour.

Mibunoshou

水生の庄

The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Every guest room has an open-air bath of natural spring water, in cypress, rock, ceramic or stone depending on the room, with the Pacific or the forest in front. That makes the shared bath optional.

Best for: couples and families who want a hillside room with a tub on the terrace and a long view down to the sea

Each room's tub is different: cypress-rimmed tubs the inn recommends to families, rock tubs for couples, a ceramic tub in a room with a tea room, and a stone tub in a room with a moon-viewing deck. The inn's site carried a notice that the open-air part of the large shared bath was temporarily out of use.

Kissho CAREN

吉祥CAREN

The inn’s own pages carry no tattoo rule and list no reservable private bath. Its sister inn down the road, Tsuruya Kisshotei, refuses tattoos in shared baths, so do not expect the shared baths here to be open to you. What remains is certain: rooms with a view bath in granite and cypress, and rooms with a cypress open-air tub on a deck, all fed from the inn’s own spring.

Best for: couples who want a cypress tub on their own deck and a French dinner afterward

Rooms with a bath of their own: the view-bath rooms Hanahiragi, Byakuran and Kangiku, with large tubs of granite and cypress; corner rooms with an open-air bath on a terrace; and rooms with a cypress open-air tub on a wooden deck. The spring is a calcium and sodium chloride water, free-flowing. Guests in these rooms get one free drink at the lounge. No reservable private bath is listed.

Senoumi

石花海

The inn asks bathers with tattoos to stay out of its shared baths; the English line on the same notice names the public baths. That leaves the private bath, a half-open-air tub on the mountain side at ¥3,300 for 50 minutes by reservation, and the rooms with their own open-air bath, which the inn says are 100 percent free-flowing.

当館では、すべてのお客様に安心してご利用いただける環境を提供するため、刺青（タトゥー）をされている方のご入浴はご遠慮いただいております。 / We kindly ask that individuals with tattoos refrain from using the public baths.

Best for: travelers who want a room tub of rust-tinted source water with the sea straight ahead

Private bath: one, half-open-air, facing the hillside, ¥3,300 for 50 minutes a group, by reservation, 3 to 10 p.m. Rooms with an open-air bath include the type C Japanese room, the type D special room and the blue-themed type G corner room with a roofed tub. The spring carries iron and manganese and is slightly brown. Day-use bathing in the shared baths is ¥1,500, 2 to 8 p.m., and the tattoo notice applies to it.

Inatori Tokai Hotel Yuen

稲取東海ホテル湯苑

The hotel firmly refuses bathers with tattoos; the sentence stands in its day-use bathing notice. The dependable way to bathe here is a room with its own tub, and the hotel has several: open-air bath twins on the upper floors, a junior suite, and half-open-air rooms it says are 100 percent free-flowing. It also rents two private open-air baths, but its refusal does not say they are exempt, so ask before booking one.

入れ墨・タトゥーの入ってる方のご入浴は、固くお断りいたします。

Best for: travelers who will pay for a room with a ceramic open-air tub facing Sagami Bay and leave the big baths alone

Rooms with a tub: renovated ocean-view twins with an open-air bath on the sixth and seventh floors, a corner junior suite and a Japanese room, Aomi, with open-air baths, and Japanese-Western and standard rooms with a half-open-air bath, some in Shigaraki ceramic. Private open-air baths: Kaishuen, boat-shaped on the top floor, 50 minutes for ¥3,000 plus tax, and Nagisa, at the water’s edge on the first floor, ¥2,000 plus tax, both by reservation. Whether tattooed guests may use those two is not settled by the page.

Inatori Ginsuiso

稲取銀水荘

The hotel refuses guests with tattoos in its large bath, open-air bath and pool, and adds that covering up does not change that: it asks guests not to use them wearing tattoo-style paint or stickers either. It has no private or family bath. The only way to bathe here with a tattoo is to book one of the suites with an open-air bath of its own, on the executive floors or among the luxury suites.

恐れ入りますが、刺青・タトゥーのある方の大浴場（露天風呂）やプールの利用はお断りしています。また、刺青・タトゥーを模したペイントやシール等を施した状態での利用もご遠慮ください。

Best for: travelers set on this well-known house who will take a suite and bathe only in the room

No private bath and no family bath; the FAQ says so directly. Rooms with an open-air bath: the Gin-no-Shiori executive-floor suites on the ninth and tenth floors, 54 to 135 square meters, and the luxury suites on the fourth to sixth floors, about 72 to 113 square meters. The rooms page does not say what water fills those tubs. Covering a tattoo does not open the shared baths.

Itoen Hotel Inatori

伊東園ホテル稲取

The hotel’s hot spring page refuses bathers with tattoos, and the Itoen chain’s FAQ on the same site tells tattooed guests to use a private bath or the bath in the room instead of the large bath and open-air bath. The private bath here is a small open-air stone tub among the trees, ¥1,650 for 50 minutes, reserved at the front desk on the day.

※刺青・タトゥーのある方の入浴をお断りいたします。 / 刺青・タトゥーなどを入れている方の、大浴場・露天風呂のご入浴は原則お断りしております。各部屋に備え付けのお風呂か、貸切風呂をご利用ください。

Best for: travelers on a tight budget who want a private stone tub in the green for under ¥2,000

Private open-air bath: 3 to 10:30 p.m. and 6 to 9:15 a.m., 50 minutes, ¥1,650, reservation required at the front desk on the day. The rooms page lists Japanese and Western rooms only, with no room baths described.

Miharuya

伊豆熱川 自家源泉 おもてなしの宿 みはるや

The inn publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private baths that cost nothing: an open-air rock bath, reserved for private use from 7:40 p.m. until 7 the next morning in 35-minute turns, and a detached bath called Hanare, 50 minutes by reservation. Several of its ten rooms also have a cypress half-open-air tub fed from the inn’s own spring.

Best for: rail travelers who want a free private bath one minute from the platform

Private open-air bath Nangoku Noten-buro: men only 3 to 6:30 p.m., women only 7 to 9:30 a.m., private by reservation from 7:40 p.m. to 7 a.m., 35 minutes free; ask at the front desk on the day, and turns are given in order of check-in. Private bath Hanare, a short way from the main building: 3 to 10 p.m. by reservation, 50 minutes free. The cypress room tubs take two adults and are adjusted with a tap. A steam bath heated by the spring costs ¥2,000 for 40 minutes.

Takami Hotel

たかみホテル

The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. Seven of its 14 rooms have their own open-air bath of free-flowing spring water. For the other rooms, the big view open-air bath turns private from 8 p.m. to midnight, free, in 30-minute turns arranged at check-in. Outside those hours that bath is mixed, with towels allowed, so it is not a place to count on.

Best for: couples who want dinner in the room and a spring-fed tub on their own balcony above the town

The view open-air bath holds about 20 people. Its day is split: mixed bathing until 6 p.m., women only from 6 to 8 p.m., private use from 8 p.m. to midnight, mixed again after midnight. Private turns are 30 minutes a group, free, requested at the front desk at check-in with no advance booking, and guests in rooms without a tub get priority. The indoor baths are separate for men and women and open around the clock.

Shinyu no Yado SAZANA

心湯の宿 SAZANA

The inn’s FAQ keeps tattoos out of the large bath and points to its private baths, which are paid and booked ahead. It has two private baths, a view bath at ¥1,000 plus tax for 40 minutes and an open-air bath with an indoor tub attached, and three room types with a spring-fed open-air tub. Guests may also use the big baths of the sister hotel Yuen 30 seconds away, but Yuen firmly refuses bathers with tattoos, so keep to the private baths and the room tubs.

誠に申し訳ございませんが、入れ墨やタトゥーの入ったお客様には大浴場のご利用をご遠慮いただいております。

Best for: couples who want a low-cost private view bath and a room tub filled from an Inatori source

Private view bath Umi-no-Shirabe: 40 minutes, ¥1,000 plus tax, reserved in order of request. Private open-air bath Yururuka has an open-air tub and an indoor tub, open 3 to 11 p.m. and 7 to 9 a.m. Room open-air tubs use the Inatori Kanko No. 3 source, which the inn describes as salty and clear. The sister hotel next door refuses tattoos in its baths.