Arimatsu 3-chome, south of the center toward Nonoichi Neighborhood hot spring bathhouse with eight family baths, two with a sauna

Arimatsu Onsen Motoyu Lemon-yu

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Does Arimatsu Onsen Motoyu Lemon-yu allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Two of the eight family baths above this neighborhood bathhouse have their own sauna and cold plunge, filled from a brown moor spring.

Take a family bath upstairs. Lemon-yu has eight private rooms on the second floor, and two of them come with their own sauna, self-loyly and cold plunge. They cannot be reserved, so arrive and wait your turn. No tattoo rule is published for the public bath downstairs.

Where it is

Kanazawa STN Kenroku-en Kanazawa Castle Oshino STN 20 min on foot Location
Arimatsu Onsen Motoyu Lemon-yu · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Hokuriku Area Pass Four days on the Hokuriku Shinkansen between Tsuruga and Kurobe-Unazukionsen, non-reserved, for 7,000 yen, which reaches Kaga-Onsen, Awara-Onsen and Kurobe-Unazukionsen from Kanazawa. It does not cover Kanazawa’s city buses or the IR Ishikawa Railway stops in between. 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)

Read on: lemon-yu.com/family-bath/

Best for: A private sauna round with a cold plunge, on coffee-colored spring water

Standard rooms (6): 60 minutes, 1,700 yen for one, 2,000 yen for two, 300 yen per extra adult, extension 200 yen per 10 minutes. Sauna rooms (2): 80 minutes, 2,300 yen for one, 2,600 yen for two, 500 yen per extra adult, extension 300 yen per 10 minutes. Same-day walk-in only; last family-bath entry 22:00. Public bath 09:00 to 23:00, closed Mondays, adults 500 yen. The operator describes the water as a brown moor spring (mole-sen).

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