Higashiyama, Kamiyumoto, at the top of the gorge past the dam turn Hot spring hotel

Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Higashiyama Grand Hotel

大江戸温泉物語東山グランドホテル

Does Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Higashiyama Grand Hotel allow tattoos? Yes, covered

Cover seal required

The last building up the gorge, and the only one in Higashiyama that will sell you a cover seal and let you into the shared bath the same day.

This is the one place in the gorge that sells a way in. The hotel refuses tattooed bathers the large baths, then says that a tattoo completely covered by a cover seal the hotel sells is admitted. The same sentence is printed on the bath page and again on the day-visit page, so it holds for a walk-in as well as a guest. No size limit is published, so a large piece is a gamble worth settling at the desk first.

Show this at the front desk

※入れ墨・タトゥーのある方は大浴場をご利用いただけません。ただし、当館指定のカバーシール（有料）を貼って、入れ墨、タトゥーが完全に覆える場合に限り、大浴場を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. Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Higashiyama Grand Hotel · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

What happens when you arrive

Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, to the size on this page. How the seals work, and where to buy them →

How we know

Confirmed from official site (the ご案内 notice on the 温泉 page, repeated on the 日帰りのご案内 page)

Read on: ooedoonsen.jp/higashiyama/onsen/

Best for: Buying a cover seal at the desk and getting into a shared bath the same afternoon

Two bath halls, Tenkyo-no-yu and Horisato-no-yu, each with an indoor and an open-air bath, swapped between men and women; the water is diluted and recirculated. Day bathing needs no reservation, 07:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to 24:00 with last entry at 22:00, 1,000 yen on weekdays, 1,100 at weekends and 1,650 on peak days, towel 330 yen. Dinner is a buffet with free drinks. The hotel has posted a full closure for maintenance from 23 to 29 November 2026.

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