Kaike Onsen 4-chome, at the western edge of the strip Ten-room inn where every room has its own spring-fed bath ★★★★★

Yado Shiontei

やど紫苑亭

Does Yado Shiontei allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Shiontei has no communal bath at all: ten rooms, ten source-flow tubs, and a reservable open-air bath let to one party a day.

There is no tattoo rule here because there is nothing shared to make a rule about. Shiontei sells ten rooms a night and every one of them has a source-flow bath, open-air or indoor, that the room’s own guests use whenever they like. A separate open-air reservable bath is let to one party a day for a fee. Premium suites Soukyu and Kasho carry half-open-air tubs usable around the clock.

Where it is

Matsue STN Yonago STN change to Kaike line bus · 19 min JR San’in line 28 min Hotel location
Kaike Onsen STN
Matsue is the door, 2 h 35 from Okayama on the Yakumo limited express. Tamatsukuri is one stop west. Kaike is a bus from Yonago and Misasa a bus from Kurayoshi, both east along the San’in line, and Yunotsu is two hours west by way of Izumoshi.. Yado Shiontei · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Sanyo-San’in Area Pass Seven days on JR West trains across both coasts for 23,000 yen, with reserved seats on the Sanyo Shinkansen between Shin-Osaka and Hakata and on the Yakumo limited express from Okayama to Matsue. It covers the train from Matsue to Yonago. The Kaike line bus from Yonago station, 300 yen, 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 温泉 page: 全部屋、源泉かけ流しの天然温泉)

Read on: yado-shiontei.jp/spalounge/

Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants the question to be irrelevant for the whole stay

The house caps itself at ten rooms in two layouts and calls the arrangement “my own hot spring”. Because there is no large bath, nothing here is sold to day visitors. This is the most expensive address in Kaike.

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