Tsuruya Kisshotei
つるや吉祥亭
Does Tsuruya Kisshotei allow tattoos? In a private bath
Tsuruya Kisshotei is blunt about tattoos in its shared baths and just as clear about the way around it: reserve one of four private baths, two of them rock tubs half open to Sagami Bay and the islands they are named for.
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.
The bath
The four private baths are on the sea side and are named for the Izu islands you can see from them. Shikinejima and Kozushima are jet baths; Toshima and Oshima are rock baths, half open to the air behind a low screen. All four run on free-flowing spring water. A slot is 45 minutes and costs ¥2,000, between 2 and 10 p.m. and again from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. You reserve at the front desk once you have arrived.
The inn draws from two sources of its own. The water is a sodium and calcium chloride spring, 70.4°C at the source, which the inn says holds its warmth on the skin long after you get out. It lists it for nerve and joint pain, stiffness, bruises, cold sensitivity and fatigue.
The two shared halls swap between men and women. Amagiji has an indoor bath floored in Izu stone and a rock open-air bath under a pavilion roof. Bokai has a granite indoor bath, a half-open-air bath with stained glass, a wooden open-air bath and a sauna. They open from 2 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and from midnight to 10:30 a.m., with towels supplied in the halls.
The hotel
An old wooden ryokan on the Hokkawa shore, with every room facing Sagami Bay and Izu Oshima. Rooms range from single Japanese rooms and Japanese-Western rooms to a detached special room and three top rooms with a garden open-air tub: Kyara in cypress, Shiosai in Izu stone and Ruri in rock. There is no elevator and the building is not barrier-free. After the bath, the lounge by the Moon Road terrace serves cold barley tea all day and local tokoroten jelly in the late afternoon and morning. Check-in is 2 p.m. and check-out 10:30 a.m., with no early or late option.
Good to know
- Book the private bath after you arrive, at the front desk; it costs ¥2,000 for 45 minutes.
- Cover tattoos in the halls and corridors, as the inn asks; a jacket is enough.
- No elevator, so ask for a low floor if stairs are a problem.
- The shuttle from Izu-Atagawa Station takes about 10 minutes and must be reserved.
Getting there
From Tokyo Station the inn suggests the Saphir Odoriko limited express to Izu-Atagawa Station, about 2 hours 10 minutes, then its shuttle bus, about 10 minutes. The shuttle runs only by reservation. From Shinagawa the inn gives the Shinkansen to Atami in about 40 minutes, the JR Ito Line to Ito in about 25, and the Izukyu Line onward in about 35. Izu-Hokkawa Station is the closer stop, but the inn publishes no walking time from it.
Izu-Atagawa STN · Izukyu Line (Odoriko limited express from Tokyo)
Not walkable.
The inn's shuttle from Izu-Atagawa Station, about 10 minutes, by reservation only.
Where it is
Izu-Atagawa STN
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Tokyo Wide Pass ¥16,000 · 3 days Three days of JR East trains from Tokyo, and the Izukyu line from Ito on to Izu-Atagawa and Izu-Inatori.
- Izukyu Discovery Pass Worth it if your stay also stops at Ito or Shimoda. It covers two or three days in a row on the Izukyu line between Ito and Izukyu-Shimoda, Izu-Atagawa and Izu-Inatori included, and a vacant ordinary seat on the Odoriko. It doesn’t cover the JR part of the ride from Tokyo.
- Mt Omuro and the Izu coast day trip The Mt Omuro lift, the Atami beach road, the Jogasaki cliffs and Ito’s harbor.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
Use the bath in your room, or reserve a private bath at the front desk.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the FAQ refuses the shared baths and sends tattooed guests to the private baths; the hot spring page gives their price and hours)
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。
This is the rule for the shared baths. It doesn’t apply to the private baths.
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.
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