Tattoo friendly onsen in Matsumoto

Hoshino Resorts KAI Matsumoto

星野リゾート 界 松本

Hoshino Resorts says it does not restrict guests with tattoos, and KAI Matsumoto's own bath listing points to that statement, so no cover is asked for in the large baths. The company keeps the right to turn a guest away from the large bath if it judges that other guests may feel afraid. The baths are for staying guests only, and the junior suites have their own open-air spring bath on a private terrace.

私たちは、お客様の文化背景や価値観を尊重し、刺青・タトゥーをされているお客様の利用を制限しておりません。 しかし、すべてのお客様に快適にお過ごしいただけるよう、他のお客様が恐怖心を抱く可能性があると私たちが判断した場合に、大浴場のご利用をお断りすることがあります。

Best for: a renovated Hoshino inn where the large baths need no cover seal, with a junior suite tub as the fallback

Reopened on August 4, 2026 after a full renovation. The large baths are for staying guests only and the men's and women's sides swap. The hotel counts eight kinds of bathing done thirteen ways, among them an open-air bath on the garden, a radiant bath of warm reclining seats, a cypress sawdust bath, a lying-down bath, a sauna and a mist bath. Junior suites have a private terrace and garden with an open-air hot spring bath. No station shuttle; parking is free.

Onyado Nono Matsumoto

天然温泉 あづみの湯 御宿 野乃松本

The hotel's bath page refuses bathers with tattoos, then makes one exception: a tattoo small enough to hide under a cover seal may go in. It gives the seal as 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) and says seals are kept at some hotels of the group, so ask at the desk on arrival or bring your own. The group FAQ limits a guest to two seals as a rule and warns that stock can run out. There is no private bath.

※当ホテルでは刺青･タトゥー等をされている方の入浴はお断りしております。 但し施設によっては、隠し用シール（8x10cm）をご用意しております。 シールで隠せる大きさであればご入浴いただけます。

Best for: a small tattoo that one or two seals will cover, five minutes from the station with the Northern Alps in the bath window

The bath, Azumi-no-yu, is on the 10th floor, open 3 p.m. to 10 a.m.; the sauna rests from 1 to 5 a.m. Each side has a hot indoor bath, an open-air bath, a dry sauna where bathers pour the water on the stones themselves, and a cold bath, 90 cm deep on the men's side. The water is an alkaline simple spring brought in by tanker from the Hotaka hot spring district. The FAQ lists three seal sizes. Shoes come off at the entrance. Parking is a 26-car mechanical tower, ¥1,400 a night, first come.

Hotel Tamanoyu

ホテル玉之湯

Hotel Tamanoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests get 40 minutes free in one of three private open-air baths, booked at the front desk after check-in, and a few rooms have their own open-air bath, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared baths. Day visitors can rent a private bath by the hour too.

Best for: a free 40-minute private open-air bath on the roof level, with step-free access

Three private open-air baths share the name Pokkari Ten-no-yu: Higashi (jets, up to four people), Minami (ramp to the tub, wheelchair users have priority) and Kita (reclining jet tub for two; no daytime use). They are free for 40 minutes to staying guests, 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., last slot 10:20 p.m.; ask at the desk after check-in, first come, no advance booking. The desk hands over the key and bath towels. A fourth private bath, Haru-no-yu, is an indoor room with a lift into the tub: ¥800 per person per hour for staying guests, free once a day on stays of two nights or more. In winter the showers and taps on the open-air baths may be removed against freezing. The hotel says the private baths and the room tubs recirculate the spring water, while the large baths combine free-flowing and recirculated water. Day visitors pay ¥900 admission, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (last entry 2 p.m.), plus ¥1,200 for an hour in Minami or Higashi, or ¥2,000 for Haru-no-yu.

Kikyotei Yumotoya

帰郷亭ゆもとや

Yumotoya publishes no tattoo rule. Its sixth-floor view bath, Nagomi, is a private bath that costs nothing and takes no reservation: when it is empty you go in and lock the door from the inside, at any hour. A tattooed guest can bathe there and skip the two shared bath halls.

Best for: a free private bath with a Northern Alps view that you can walk into at any hour

Nagomi cannot be reserved; the inn's FAQ says to go in when it is free and lock the door. The two shared halls, Kutsurogi on the first floor and Yasuragi on the fourth, swap between men and women at midnight. Guest rooms have a unit bath that the inn asks guests not to use. A bath tax of ¥150 per adult is charged on top. The inn has stopped its Matsumoto Station shuttle for now.

Shoho

美ヶ原温泉 翔峰

Shoho publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests can reserve one of three private baths for 60 minutes, and several room types have their own spring-fed bath, so a tattooed guest never has to use the shared baths.

Best for: a big hotel with three private baths and rooms whose own tub looks over Matsumoto to the Northern Alps

Three private baths: Hisho-no-yu (a stone-lined view bath in dark modern style), Kiho-no-yu (a bright Japanese-style view bath) and Goten-no-yu (a garden bath where an indoor tub joins an open-air one). Each costs ¥3,300 for 60 minutes, 3 p.m. to midnight. Staying guests can book ahead through the reservations desk; otherwise book at the front desk. Rooms with their own spring bath: the top-floor suite of the East Wing (113 m2), the East Wing 10-mat room with a view bath (56 m2), the Central Wing Japanese-Western room with an open-air bath (70 m2), and the West Wing view-bath twin (36 m2) and view-bath Japanese room (55 m2). The hotel says the water is natural spring water circulated and partly run off, and that only the foot bath runs straight from the source.

Fujinoyu

富士乃湯

Fujinoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Its private bath, Fuji, is free to every staying guest with no booking: when the sign on the door reads vacant you turn it over and go in. Three special rooms also have their own half-open-air spring bath, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared baths.

Best for: a free, no-booking private bath lined with early Showa tile

The private bath Fuji is free-flowing spring water with nothing added, free to staying guests, open 3 p.m. to 9 a.m., about 30 to 40 minutes a turn. No booking: flip the door sign from vacant to in use. A QR code in the room shows on your phone whether it is free. The washing floor is tatami matting and the tub and walls are early Showa tile. The three special rooms in the new wing, Suzuran, Rindo and Komakusa, each have a half-open-air bath fed straight from the source; the main-wing room Norikura has a unit bath with spring water piped in. The inn takes no stays of more than one night and has no elevator. Children under six cannot stay in the wooden main wing. Day-use bathing is suspended.

Higashi Ishikawa Ryokan

東石川旅館

Higashi Ishikawa publishes no tattoo rule. Its private open-air bath, a Kiso cypress tub fed straight from the source, is free to staying guests whenever it is empty, for up to 45 minutes a turn. A tattooed guest can bathe there and leave the shared baths alone.

Best for: a free private open-air soak in a Kiso cypress tub, with no booking to make

The private bath takes no reservation: the inn says to use it whenever it is free and to keep to 45 minutes. Its stay plans list the private bath as free. The shared side has one open-air bath and one indoor bath each for men and women. All baths are open 24 hours. The whole building is non-smoking.

Matsumoto Jujo: Matsumoto Honbako and Koyanagi

松本十帖 松本本箱・小柳

Matsumoto Jujo publishes no tattoo rule. Every room type in both of its hotels is sold with its own open-air bath filled with Asama's spring water, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the room. The one shared bath, Koyanagi-no-yu, is a small half-open-air tub for staying guests and is not a private bath.

Best for: an open-air spring tub on your own terrace, in a hotel built around a bookstore

Matsumoto Honbako has eight room types, from standard twins with a cypress open-air tub on the terrace to a top-floor Grand Suite with the largest tub on the site; the Grand Suite takes guests aged nine and over only. Koyanagi has nine room types, one of them a universal two-room unit with an electric ceiling lift over the open-air bath (book the lift ahead). The hotel says the room baths are fed through a storage tank, while Koyanagi-no-yu takes water straight from the source pipe. Koyanagi-no-yu is open 3 p.m. to 11 a.m. to staying guests only, has one shower and no soap or shampoo, and guests bring the towel and wooden pail from their room. Check-in is at the cafe Oyaki to Coffee, a 3-minute walk from the hotel, and the hotel has no parking of its own.

Oiwakeya Ryokan

追分屋旅館

Oiwakeya publishes no tattoo rule. It rents a separate private bath house, Tsuji-no-hana, by the 45 minutes, and its detached room Yuraku-tei has its own indoor and open-air spring baths, so a tattooed guest never has to use the shared baths.

Best for: a private bath house with an indoor tub of green Towada stone and an open-air lying bath

Tsuji-no-hana is a separate bath house in sukiya style, built with cypress and bamboo. It has an indoor tub of green Towada stone and an open-air lying bath of teppei stone. Staying guests and day-plan guests pay ¥2,500 a party for 45 minutes; day bathers pay ¥3,500 plus bathing tax for each adult. Sessions run 10:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. and 3 to 11 p.m. (to 10 p.m. for day visitors), and the last booking is taken at 8:30 p.m. The lying bath closes in bad weather and deep winter. When nobody has booked it the inn sometimes opens the bath house free as a shared bath, with men and women taking turns. Yuraku-tei, one party a day for two to six guests, has one indoor spring bath and one open-air spring bath. The inn runs its own winery next door.

Kikunoyu

菊之湯

Kikunoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Its guest rooms come with their own indoor bath filled with the hot spring, three ground-floor room types in cypress, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the room. The inn has no reservable private bath.

Best for: a cypress spring bath in your own room, beside a small courtyard garden

Three ground-floor room types have a cypress indoor bath with spring water and a courtyard garden: the special room (two rooms joined, up to five guests), a 10-mat room and an 8-mat room. The upper-floor rooms, of 7 to 10 mats, one with a second room and one with two beds, are each described as having an indoor bath where the spring can be taken in private. The inn has no elevator, and one room type is on the third floor by stairs. Meals are served in the dining rooms. The two shared baths, Kiku-buro and Beni-buro, swap between men and women.

Yuyado Izumiya Zenbe

湯宿 和泉屋善兵衛

Izumiya Zenbe publishes no tattoo rule. Every room plan includes 40 minutes in one of its three private baths, booked at check-in, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared indoor bath.

Best for: a private bath included with every room, with a paid upgrade to the open-air one

Three private baths, used 40 minutes a party between 2 and 10 p.m. and booked at check-in. Tsukama-no-yu is a small indoor bath with a square cypress tub shaped like a sake measure. Komorebi-no-yu is a roofed half-open-air bath with a big cypress barrel tub, sized for families and groups. Yamanobe-no-yu has an all-cypress indoor tub and an open-air tub of blue-green stone among trees. Which bath you get follows the room type: 6-mat rooms get Tsukama-no-yu, 8-mat rooms Komorebi-no-yu, and the 8-mat room with bath and the 10-mat rooms Yamanobe-no-yu. Upgrades cost ¥1,650 on weekdays and ¥2,200 before holidays for Komorebi-no-yu, and ¥2,200 and ¥3,300 for Yamanobe-no-yu. Day visitors book a bath through a Japanese booking site. The foot bath and walking bath are closed for now. No elevator; rooms are reached by stairs.

onsen hotel OMOTO

OMOTO publishes no tattoo rule. It has a fully enclosed private cypress bath, ¥2,200 for 45 minutes, booked by time slot at check-in, and it takes advance bookings from guests who cannot use the large baths. One top-floor corner room has its own open-air bath with free-flowing spring water.

Best for: a private cypress bath you can reserve ahead if the large baths are not an option

The private bath is a fully enclosed room with a cypress tub, ¥2,200 including tax for 45 minutes, sold by time slot on arrival that day. The hotel says guests who cannot bathe in the large baths may book it in advance. The 12.5-mat Japanese room with an open-air bath is a corner room on the top floor, on the same floor as the view bath, and its tub runs free-flowing from the source. The large baths are open 3 p.m. to 9:30 a.m. and swap between men and women from 9:30 to 10 p.m. No day-use bathing or day-use sauna. Guests with a medical reason may wear a bathing cover garment in the baths.

Shunsai Tsuki no Shizuka

旬彩 月の静香

Tsuki no Shizuka publishes no tattoo rule. Every room in its new wing has its own cypress tub filled with spring water, and two annex rooms have a spring bath too, so a tattooed guest who books one of those never has to use the shared baths.

Best for: a room with its own cypress spring tub in a modern sukiya wing

Three buildings. The new wing, in modern sukiya style, has ten rooms and the inn says all of them have a cypress hot spring bath; the three layouts it shows run from a 12.5-mat room with a 4-mat Western room to a suite with a 12.5-mat room, an 8-mat Western room and two more rooms. The annex, a farmhouse about 250 years old moved to the site, has a maisonette with a hot spring jacuzzi and an 8-mat room with a spring bath, plus two plain Japanese rooms. The main building has six Western rooms with no bath of their own listed. There is no private bath to rent. The inn warns that voices carry between annex rooms.

Izumiso

和泉荘

Izumiso refuses tattoos in its baths. The notice sits with the day-use bathing terms on its hot spring page and says people with tattoos cannot use the baths, cover seals included. The way to bathe here is to book one of the two special rooms, each with its own open-air spring bath and a cypress indoor bath. The inn has no reservable private bath.

入れ墨、タトゥー（シール含む）のある方はご利用いただけません。

Best for: a special room with both an open-air tub and a cypress indoor bath of its own

The refusal covers cover seals as well as bare tattoos. It is printed under the day-use bathing terms; the inn prints no separate rule for staying guests, so assume the shared baths are closed to tattooed guests and ask before booking an ordinary room. Two special rooms have private baths: one with a ceramic open-air spring tub, a cypress indoor spring bath, a 10-mat room, a tea room and a terrace; the other with a cypress open-air spring tub, a cypress indoor spring bath, a 10-mat and a 4.5-mat room and a terrace. Day-use bathing is noon to 8 p.m., ¥800 or ¥1,100 with a towel, tickets from a machine that takes no bills larger than ¥1,000, irregular closing days.

Hotel New Kotobuki

ホテルニューことぶき

Hotel New Kotobuki publishes no tattoo rule. It rents a private open-air bath, Kotobuki-an, for 40 minutes to staying guests and for 50 minutes to day visitors, and it has rooms with their own open-air spring bath, so a tattooed guest never has to use the shared baths.

Best for: a private open-air bath in a Shigaraki ceramic tub, open to day visitors too

Kotobuki-an is a private open-air bath: a round Shigaraki ceramic tub in a room of Kiso cypress facing a small garden, with a room beside it for changing and resting. Staying guests pay ¥2,200 for 40 minutes; slots are taken from 3 to 7 p.m. for use up to 9 p.m., and the time is settled at check-in. Day visitors can book it alone for 50 minutes at ¥3,960 plus ¥20 bathing tax an adult, starting on the half hour from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m., paid in cash on arrival. A lunch plan with 40 minutes in the bath runs 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for two to four adults, booked two days ahead. There are stairs on the way to the bath. The rooms with an open-air bath are 12.5 mats, were refitted in 2009 and sleep up to four; the hotel says the tub is natural hot spring water and that the Northern Alps show in clear weather.

Bettei Ikka

別亭一花

Bettei Ikka publishes no tattoo rule. It has one private family bath in cypress, with an indoor tub and an open-air tub, booked through the inn for ¥3,300 and discounted or free on its stay plans. A tattooed guest can reserve that and skip the shared bath.

Best for: a cypress family bath with its own open-air tub, at a small inn run by its chef

The cypress family bath has an indoor tub and an open-air tub. The regular fee is ¥3,300 including tax. It drops to ¥2,200 on the standard two-meal plan and ¥1,100 on the Shinshu premium beef plan, and is free on the executive plan. It is by reservation; the inn asks guests to contact it to book. No rooms have their own bath. Bath towels and face towels are supplied, and the inn gives out free ice cream after the bath and free sparkling water.

Ryokan Sugimoto

旅館すぎもと

Ryokan Sugimoto publishes no tattoo rule. Its private cypress bath is free, open around the clock and taken without booking by whoever arrives first, so a tattooed guest can bathe there and skip the shared baths.

Best for: a free private cypress bath at any hour, in an inn of folk-craft furniture, jazz and hand-cut soba noodles

The private bath is a cypress tub fed 100 percent from the source with nothing recirculated. It costs nothing, is open 24 hours and cannot be booked: guests use it when it is free. The rooms Tsukama, Kiri and Kasumi have a cypress tub of their own, but the inn says plainly that those room tubs are not hot spring water. The shared baths, Tsukimi-ike and Shiraito-no-yu, mix source water with filtered recirculation. The inn does no pickups. From stays on February 1, 2027 the whole building is non-smoking.

Senjuro Sakaenoyu

仙聚樓 栄の湯

Sakaenoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Besides its men's and women's baths it has one private family bath that couples and families use on their own, so a tattooed guest can ask for that. The inn prints no fee or time limit for it; ask when you book.

Best for: a small tiled family bath of undiluted source water at a plain, old-style inn

The inn says its baths run on 100 percent source water, free-flowing. The private family bath is a small tiled room with a square sunken tub. Rooms are Japanese rooms of 8 to 13 mats for one to four guests, with toilets in the shared hallway and no bath in the room. There is no elevator. Dinner and breakfast are served in the dining room. Check-in runs 3 to 9 p.m., and free parking holds eight cars.

Onyado Ishikawa

御宿 石川

Onyado Ishikawa publishes no tattoo rule. It takes three parties a day and marks both of its baths as available for private use until 10 p.m., so a tattooed guest can bathe alone.

Best for: a three-party inn where both small tiled baths can be taken privately and dinner comes to the room

Two baths, both fed straight from the source and both open to private use, with bathing until 10 p.m. Hanare-no-yu is the newer bath, tiled in pink with windows on the garden; in season the inn floats yuzu or apples in it. Showa-no-yu, in the main house, is a private bath lined in the tiny mosaic tiles of the 1950s and 1960s. The inn takes three parties a day, one to a floor, in rooms of two connecting Japanese rooms, and serves meals in the room. The inn also runs two whole-house rentals nearby under the name Bettei Tsukanoma, with a private sauna and spring bath; those are a separate booking.