At the foot of the shrine approach, five minutes on foot from JR Kotohira Ryokan ★★★★★

Yumoto Konpira Onsen Hananoyu Koubaitei

湯元こんぴら温泉 華の湯 紅梅亭

Does Yumoto Konpira Onsen Hananoyu Koubaitei allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The Hananoyu group’s bigger house at the bottom of the approach, where a handful of rooms carry their own balcony tub on the Chikoin spring and one floor comes with a private bath turn built into the rate.

Koubaitei publishes no tattoo rule of its own, and its sister house up the slope sells cover seals while this one says nothing, so do not assume the two run the same door policy. Book instead on the room baths: the Rakuwa rooms have an open-air tub on the balcony fed by the same Konpira (Chikoin) spring as the big baths, and the Hanakurabu floor throws in one free 45-minute turn in a reservable bath, either Tsuki-no-yu or Hoshi-no-yu. Those two are the whole answer here, and they are for overnight guests.

Where it is

Okayama STN Tadotsu STN change to JR Dosan line · 13 min JR Shiokaze limited express 49 min Matsuyama STN Hotel location
Kotohira STN
Dogo is 25 minutes on the tram from Matsuyama station. Takamatsu, Kotohira and the Iya valley are quicker from Okayama, over the Seto Ohashi bridge: 53 minutes on the Marine Liner to Takamatsu, 1 h 16 to Kotohira, and the Nanpu limited express to Oboke for the Iya bus. Matsuyama itself is 2 h 45 from Okayama on the Shiokaze.. Yumoto Konpira Onsen Hananoyu Koubaitei · 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, so Okayama to Kojima is a short separate fare. It covers the Shiokaze or Nanpu to Tadotsu or Kotohira and the Dosan line. 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 room pages at koubaitei.jp/room_hana name the in-room open-air baths and state 客室露天風呂は「こんぴら温泉(智光院温泉)」を使用しています. Thirty pages of koubaitei.jp were read with no tattoo text anywhere.

Read on: koubaitei.jp/room_hana/

Best for: An in-room open-air tub filled with the same spring the public baths use

The free private-bath turn is a Hanakurabu-floor perk, one session of 45 minutes at either Tsuki-no-yu or Hoshi-no-yu, not both. In-room open-air baths appear in the Rakuwa and Hanakurabu open-air room plans. The house is part of the Hananoyu group with Sakuranosho and the two share a bath-hopping arrangement, which is worth avoiding if you are relying on the room tub rather than a seal.

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