Keikoku-no-Kakureyado Iya Bijin
渓谷の隠れ宿 祖谷美人
Does Keikoku-no-Kakureyado Iya Bijin allow tattoos? In a private bath
Nine rooms above the Iya River, each with its own pottery or cypress tub on the balcony, and the front desk will tell you plainly that there is no large bath here at all.
There is no shared bath on the property for a rule to apply to, and the inn says so in its own answers to guests: every one of the nine rooms has a private open-air bath and there is no large bath. Some tubs are Shigaraki pottery and the rest are cypress, and the source is an unheated simple sulphur mineral water. Nothing here asks a tattooed guest to cover up or to time a booking.
Show this at the front desk
当館は全室トイレ付き、露天風呂付のお部屋でございます。 （大浴場はございません）
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Okayama STN
Oboke STN change to Shikoku Kotsu bus · 28 min
JR Nanpu limited express 96 min
Matsuyama STN
Hotel locationKazurabashi 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, so Okayama to Kojima is a short separate fare. It covers the Nanpu to Oboke. The Shikoku Kotsu bus from Oboke into the valley, 670 yen to Kazurabashi, 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 single-page site at iyabijin.jp carries the room list, the spring description and the questions-from-guests section with the no-large-bath line, and it contains no tattoo text anywhere.
Read on: iyabijin.jp
Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants a gorge-view tub outside the bedroom door and no shared changing room at all
Room types are the Shigaraki-ware open-air bath room, the cypress open-air bath room, a Special Room that pairs one of each, and a detached suite with both plus a hearth and a foot-level stone-bed heater. The inn draws its washbasin water from the spring that feeds Biwa Falls. In winter the open-air baths have insulating blinds, and the inn tells guests to run the hot water first to warm the enclosure. There is no pickup from the station, but the route bus stops at Iyabijin-mae outside the door. The attached soba restaurant serves 8:00 to 17:00 with no closing day.
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