Tosa Gyoen
土佐御苑
Does Tosa Gyoen allow tattoos? In a private bath
One ninth-floor suite a day, with a Shigaraki-ware kame-buro on its own balcony and the castle keep lit up across the rooftops.
The shared baths are closed to tattooed guests, in the operator’s own words and without any seal exception. The way in is the top-floor suite, let to one party a day, which has its own open-air bath on the balcony. Book that room and the rest of the house rules about the bath do not touch you. Every other room type here sends you to the shared baths, so the suite is the whole answer.
Show this at the front desk
イレズミ・タトゥーの入っているお客様のご利用は固くお断りいたします。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Okayama STN
Nanpu, JR’s limited express 2 h 24 from Okayama
Matsuyama STN
Takamatsu STN
Hotel locationKochi 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 お風呂 page carries the refusal; the 客室 page describes the suite’s open-air bath)
Read on: tosagyoen.co.jp/bath/
Best for: A tattooed couple who want a bath to themselves with Kochi Castle in the window
The 露天風呂付スイートルーム is on the ninth floor, 8 tatami plus an 8-tatami twin bedroom, 2 to 5 people, one party a day. The open-air bath is a kame-buro cut from Shigaraki ware set with natural radium stone. The shared baths downstairs run 05:30 to 09:00 and 16:00 to 24:00, with a rock bath filled with Muroto deep sea water, a kamakura tub on the women’s side and saunas at night; day-use bathing is 1,000 yen. The house publishes no spring analysis and makes no onsen claim, so treat all of the water as heated, not thermal. Booking.com’s room table lists only the standard Japanese rooms, so the suite has to be asked for direct.
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