Hita Onsen Kizantei Hotel
日田温泉 亀山亭ホテル
Does Hita Onsen Kizantei Hotel allow tattoos? Yes, covered
Kizantei, founded in 1874 as a restaurant and on the Mikuma riverbank since 1959, fills the bath of every room with its own hot spring, and its premium rooms soak you in a Shigaraki-ware tub at the window.
Kizantei’s FAQ lets tattooed guests into the large bath and asks them to cover the tattoo with a seal out of consideration for others, naming no size. The bath in every room uses hot spring water, and two private baths can be reserved for 50 minutes for a fee.
Show this at the front desk
お体に刺青やタトゥーのあるお客様でも大浴場をご利用いただけます。ご利用の際はシールで隠すなど、他のお客様へのご配慮をお願い致します。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
The bath
The spring rises on the hotel's own grounds and goes into the baths with no water added. The hotel describes it as an alkaline simple spring, smooth on the skin and easy on the body, and says Hita's water has long been known as a spring for couples hoping for children. The two large baths are on the eighth floor, each with an open-air bath beside it behind glass, facing the Mikuma river and the hills of the Hita basin; the hotel says the sunsets from here have no equal in Hita Onsen. One side has a dry sauna with loyly and a cold bath, so men and women swap sides between night and morning. There is also a cypress open-air bath above the river. Hours are 3 p.m. to midnight and 6 to 10 a.m.
The room baths are the answer for a tattooed guest. The hotel says every room's bath uses hot spring water. The Premium Twin rooms have a round Shigaraki-ware tub of flowing spring water at a window that opens, looking over the river. The Superior Twin rooms and the Premium Japanese-Western rooms 601, 701 and 702 have a view bath facing the river too.
Two private baths, Gion-no-yu and Kagetsu-no-yu, are for staying guests only and take up to four people. Each costs ¥2,000 for 50 minutes, in seven sittings from 3:30 to 9:50 p.m.
The hotel
Kizantei began in 1874 as a restaurant at the foot of Kizan Park, opened as a hotel on the Mikuma riverbank in 1959, and finished a full renovation in March 2024 that added new rooms and the sauna. Rooms run from 8-mat and 10-mat Japanese rooms facing the river to city-view twins, a step-free universal room, and the view-bath twins and suites. Dinner can be served in the room looking at the river, or in summer on a yakatabune, a roofed pleasure boat, during the cormorant fishing. Breakfast is 7 to 9 a.m.
Good to know
- Every room's bath is hot spring water, by the hotel's own account, from the plainest twin to the suites.
- Private baths go by sitting, seven a night from 3:30 p.m., ¥2,000 for 50 minutes, up to four people.
- Bring a towel to the eighth floor. The large bath has none set out.
- A foot bath on the first-floor terrace faces the river, with a self-serve cafe beside it.
Getting there
From Hita Station on the JR Kyudai Main Line, the hotel is about 13 minutes on foot, by its own count. Hita Bus Center, where the highway buses from Fukuoka stop, is about 10 minutes on foot. The hotel offers a pickup service and asks guests to contact it for details. Drivers come off the Oita Expressway at Hita IC and follow Route 212 for about 13 minutes; parking holds 40 cars.
Hita STN · JR Kyudai Main Line
About 13 minutes.
Hita Bus Center is about 10 minutes on foot; ask the hotel about its pickup service.
Where it is
Hita STN
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Kyushu Rail Pass from ¥12,000 · 3, 5 or 7 consecutive days Worth it if Hita is one stop on a longer Kyushu trip by train.
- Yufuin and Hita day tour Yufuin and Hita in a day, with the Yufuin no Mori train as an option.
- 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
Bring a cover seal for the large bath; the hotel doesn’t say it supplies them. The bath in your room needs nothing.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the inn’s own FAQ, opened from the questions button on its site, under the question on the large bath)
Best for: a Shigaraki-ware tub of flowing spring water at a window over the Mikuma river
The hotel says every room’s bath uses hot spring water. The Premium Twin (38 m2, third and fourth floors) has a Shigaraki-ware view bath of flowing spring water; the Superior Twin and the Premium Japanese-Western rooms 601, 701 and 702 have a spring-water view bath facing the river. Two private baths, Gion-no-yu and Kagetsu-no-yu: guests only, up to four people, ¥2,000 for 50 minutes, seven sittings from 3:30 to 9:50 p.m. Children in diapers may not use the tubs; a baby bath is provided. Full renovation finished March 2024.
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