Yunohama, on the seafront two doors from the sand bath hall Ryokan

Ginsyo

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Does Ginsyo allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The operator calls the table it serves dinner on a hot spring table, because the source wells up through the middle of it. Nine floors above that, three open-air baths lock behind one party at a time, looking across the water at the Osumi Peninsula.

No rule is published here, and none is needed for the baths that count. Ginsyo keeps three reservable open-air baths on its ninth floor, each held by one party at a time, and a long list of rooms with an open-air bath on their own balcony. The second-floor shared baths and the ninth-floor infinity bath are a different matter, since the operator says nothing about tattoos in either.

Where it is

Hakata STN Kagoshima-Chuo STN change to JR Ibusuki Makurazaki line · 88 min Kyushu Shinkansen 93 min Kumamoto STN Nagasaki STN Kagoshima Airport Hotel location
Ibusuki STN
Hakata to Ibusuki is about 3 h 25: the Kyushu Shinkansen to Kagoshima-Chuo, then the Ibusuki Makurazaki line down the coast, which the sightseeing train Ibusuki no Tamatebako also runs. Ureshino is about 1 h 20, a limited express to Takeo-Onsen and the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen one stop further. Kurokawa has no railway at all: the coach from Hakata takes about 2 h 40 by way of Hita and Tsuetate. Ginsyo · 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, bath structure rather than a tattoo policy (the operator’s hot spring page describing the three reservable baths, and its room pages)

Read on: ginsyou.com/spa/

Best for: A bath taken in your own name, nine floors up over Kinko Bay

The three reservable open-air baths are named Sora, Hoshi and Umi: 4,000 yen per room for 50 minutes, claimed first come after check-in from 15:00, last reception 20:00, adults only. Room types with a bath of their own include Shio-no-ne and Suna-no-ne, a two-person annex with a couple’s open-air bath, and a Japanese room with a private hot spring pool. Refurbished rooms reopened on 10 September 2025. Every bath runs on water from the source.

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