Higashibata, the highest ground in the Ashizuri hot spring village Retreat hotel with one jacuzzi room and one sauna room ★★★★☆

Ashizuri Thermae

ASHIZURI THERMAE アシズリテルメ

Does Ashizuri Thermae allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The highest roof in the Ashizuri hot spring village, with one room that keeps a jacuzzi to itself and one that keeps a sauna.

No tattoo rule appears anywhere on the site, including on the pages for the shared baths that take day visitors, so the shared bath is unanswered. Two room grades give you water of your own: the ocean-view room with a jacuzzi, which the hotel calls the only one it has, and the deluxe room with a private sauna on its terrace. Neither is a hot spring tub; the onsen here is only in the shared baths.

Where it is

Okayama STN Kochi STN change to JR Ashizuri limited express · 102 min Nakamura STN change to Kochi Seinan Kotsu bus · 105 min JR Nanpu limited express 144 min Matsuyama STN Takamatsu STN Hotel location
Ashizuri Misaki STN
Matsuyama is the door for Dogo and Imabari. The rest are quicker from Okayama, over the Seto Ohashi bridge: Takamatsu 53 minutes, Kochi 2 h 24 on the Nanpu. Shodoshima is a boat from Takamatsu port, and Naruto the Uzushio limited express from Takamatsu by way of Tokushima.. Ashizuri Thermae · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

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 Nanpu from Kojima to Kochi and the Ashizuri limited express on to Nakamura, which runs over the Tosa Kuroshio Railway and is included. The bus from Nakamura to Cape Ashizuri 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 客室紹介 page names the jacuzzi room and the private-sauna room)

Read on: ashizurithermae.jp/facility/room.php

Best for: A jacuzzi to yourself with the horizon filling the window

Room grades: デラックスルーム 貸し切りサウナ付き, with a sauna on the terrace that is lit at night; ジャグジー付き オーシャンビュールーム, the only room with a jacuzzi; then グランドプレミア (32.6 m²), プレミア (22.9 m²), プレミアルーム and ツインルームテラス付き, none of which have a tub of their own. The shared baths are on a simple weak radioactive cold mineral spring, open to guests 15:00 to 24:00 and 06:00 to 09:00, and to day visitors 15:00 to 21:00. The hotel sits at the top of the hot spring village with a view said to span more than 270 degrees.

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