Shimanto-no-Yado
四万十の宿
Does Shimanto-no-Yado allow tattoos? In a private bath
Four rooms in the wind wing at the river mouth, each with a cypress tub and a wood-fired goemon tub open to the trees.
The shared bath is closed to tattooed guests, and the inn says so on the page that sells day-use bathing, because the bath is shared with the day-use house next door. The way around it is the 風の棟 wing, whose four rooms each have a private open-air bath with two tubs, a cypress one and an old-style goemon one. The inn states in the same breath that this room bath is not hot spring water, and there is no rentable family bath anywhere on the property.
Show this at the front desk
※刺青・タトゥーのあるお客様のご利用はご遠慮いただいております。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Okayama STN
Kochi STN change to JR Ashizuri limited express · 102 min
JR Nanpu limited express 144 min
Matsuyama STN
Takamatsu STN
Hotel locationNakamura 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 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 (the 日帰り入浴 page carries the refusal; the 客室 page describes the 風の棟 baths and states they are not onsen)
Read on: shimantonoyado.co.jp/hot_spring
Best for: Soaking in a goemon tub in a stand of trees a short walk from the river mouth
Thirty rooms in all, of which four are 露天風呂付和洋室 in the 風の棟, sleeping four. The operator’s own words on the room bath: 露天風呂には檜風呂と昔懐かしい五右衛門風呂の2種類をご用意しております。(※お部屋の露天風呂は温泉ではございません。) The shared bath, 四万十いやしの湯, runs on trucked 新安並温泉 with a medicinal tub and a seawater open-air tub, 06:00 to 21:00 in summer and 06:30 to 21:00 in winter, guests from 05:30 to 23:00; the page also states 家族風呂・貸切風呂はご用意がございません. JR Shikoku ran the inn alongside the city-owned 四万十いやしの里 next door; a change of operator was announced in June 2026.
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