Azumi Setoda
アズミ セトダ
Does Azumi Setoda allow tattoos? In a private bath
Four room types around a courtyard in a restored Setoda merchant house, each ending the day in its own cypress tub rather than a shared bath.
The bath is in your room, so the question never comes up. The house says every room ends the day in a hinoki cypress bath and lists a hinoki bathtub among the room amenities, in rooms built in sukiya style around a courtyard. The public bathhouse across the street, yubune, is also open to guests, and that one is a shared bath with no published rule, so keep to your own tub if you would rather not ask.
Where it is
Matsuyama STN
JR Shiokaze, then the Shimanami Liner bus about 1 h 25 of riding
Okayama STN
Takamatsu STN
Hotel locationSetoda STN
JR All Shikoku Rail Pass Three to seven days, from 12,000 yen, on every JR Shikoku train, with non-reserved seats on the limited expresses. It starts at Kojima, the first stop on the Shikoku side of the line from Okayama. It covers the Shiokaze and Ishizuchi between Matsuyama and Imabari. The Shimanami Liner bus over the bridges to Setoda is not a JR service and is paid separately. Sold on Klook.
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, not a tattoo policy (the Stay page: all rooms come with a hinoki cypress bath, and Hinoki Bathtub is listed in the room amenities)
Read on: azumi.co/accommodation/
Best for: A cypress tub of your own in a 140-year-old merchant house on a lemon island
The building is the former Horiuchi family house. Four room types around a marigaki-fenced courtyard, Hollywood twins that can be made a king, some with a second-floor balcony daybed and a Fukumitsu stone floor. Guests bathe free at yubune across the street, 07:00 to 22:00. Not a hot spring: the in-room tubs are ordinary heated water in cypress, and the house makes no spring claim.
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