Okyakuya
歴史の宿 御客屋
Does Okyakuya allow tattoos? In a private bath
Two small baths here have a bolt on the inside and no charge attached: cypress in one, cut stone in the other, taken by whoever finds them empty. The building around them has been an inn since 1722.
No tattoo rule is published, and the two kashikiri baths carry the answer. Ichi-no-yu in cypress and Ni-no-yu in cut stone each hold two adults and each have their own changing room, and the inn says no reservation and no bathing fee apply: lock the door whenever one is free. The other five baths rotate between men and women, and day visitors paying 700 yen use them under nothing published.
Where it is
Hakata Bus Terminal
Kyushu Sanko coach 2 h 36
Kumamoto STN
Kagoshima-Chuo STN
Nagasaki STN
✈Kagoshima Airport
Hotel locationKurokawa Onsen bus stop
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 rather than a tattoo policy (the inn’s onsen page describes both kashikiri baths and states that neither booking nor a fee is required)
Read on: okyakuya.jp/hot_spring
Best for: A locking bath you can take twice in an evening without asking anyone
Seven bathing places on the inn’s own sulfate and chloride source, in use 6:00–23:00. Sato-no-yu, for staying guests, has a 130 cm standing bath you hold two logs in. Daikan-no-yu and Ko-no-yu were rebuilt in July 2025. Day visits 10:30–19:00, last entry 18:30, 700 yen for adults and 300 for children, though the association board showed the inn closed on the day checked. The house has been an inn since 1722 and served the Hosokawa lords.
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