Tattoo friendly onsen in Misasa

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This is one of the few places in Misasa that will let a tattooed guest into the large bath at all. The group rule is printed on the hotel’s day-use page: a tattoo bars you from the large bath unless the hotel’s own cover seal, which it sells, hides it completely. That means the seal has to be bought at the desk here, and it has to cover the whole tattoo, not most of it. Anything larger than one seal will hide is out.

※入れ墨・タトゥーのある方は大浴場をご利用いただけません。ただし、当館指定のカバーシール（有料）を貼って、入れ墨・タトゥーが完全に覆える場合に限り、大浴場をご利用いただけます

Best for: A small tattoo that one bought seal will cover, in a house that sells the seal

The same notice warns that entry can be refused when the baths are crowded, so a busy weekend is a poor bet. A rock-bed sauna can be added to a day-use plan for ¥1,100 but is not sold on its own, and the gown and towel for it come free. Day-use plans with a buffet lunch or dinner are sold through the group site.

Misasakan

三朝館

Misasakan answers the question in its own FAQ and answers it twice. Any tattoo, whatever its size, is refused at the large baths, and in the same sentence the inn points a tattooed guest at its onsen-fed rooms and its reservable open-air bath. The reservable bath, Gyokuraku, runs in 45-minute turns on the hour, from 6:00 to 8:00 and again from 15:00 to 23:00, and turns are claimed same-day by phone from 10:00. Book an onsen room and the question never comes up at all.

刺青・タトゥーのある方については、その大小に関わらず大浴場への入場をお断りしております。温泉付き客室や貸切露天風呂の利用をご検討くださいませ。

Best for: A traveler who wants a garden ryokan and is willing to pay for a room with its own spring water

The FAQ names the room types whose tubs carry onsen water: the Concept Rooms, Suite Room Mizuki and the Betsutei Rin annex. Outdoor sections of the large baths and the reservable bath are pure source flow; the indoor large bath mixes source flow with filtered recirculation. Day-use bathing has been dropped, so the baths serve overnight guests only. The bathing tax is ¥150 a night on top of the room rate.

Ryokan Ohashi

旅館大橋

Nothing on the Ohashi site speaks to tattoos, and its shared baths should be treated as unanswered. What the inn does publish is a floor plan of rooms with their own water. The open-air rooms take 60°C spring water straight from the ground under the building, Ume and Nanten have onsen tubs indoors, and the top suite, Gotou, has a hinoki tub fed from the same source. Booking one of those rooms is the way through here.

Best for: Someone who wants to sleep inside a 1932 building that is on the national register

The rooms page warns that the open-air rooms differ from one another, that you cannot pick one, and that a guaranteed room costs an extra ¥2,200. Every room in the house was built to a different plan by the same temple carpenters. Winter driving needs snow tires from December through March, which the inn says on its FAQ.

Mansuirou

三朝薬師の湯 万翆楼

Mansuirou publishes no tattoo rule anywhere on its site, so its shared baths stay an open question. The reservable bath is not: a large hinoki tub on the inn’s own 100 percent source water, 50 minutes for ¥3,300, taken by one group at a time. Above it sit two suites, 530 and 430, each with a private open-air tub on the same water, and a barrier-free suite with an open-air deck tub for anyone using a wheelchair.

Best for: A tattooed guest who would rather book a private tub by the hour than commit to a suite

The inn notes that the source water in the private tubs is heated and diluted before it reaches the tub. The barrier-free suite is stepless throughout and takes a wheelchair from the door to the open-air deck. Mansuirou is a radium-spring house, so it sells the steam as much as the soak.

Seiryuso

山峡露天 清流荘

No tattoo rule appears anywhere on the Seiryuso site, and its shared baths are therefore unanswered. The private side is unusually deep for a house this size. Four rooms have their own source-flow open-air tub, one of them with a private dry sauna beside it, and three more baths are reservable: two on the hillside, Aoi Yama and Ringo-no-ka, and a view bath called Tsuki-no-yu.

Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants a sauna and a private tub in the same room

The in-room sauna measures 173cm high by 107cm wide by 87cm deep, is set between 80°C and 85°C, and cuts out after three hours; there is no cold plunge with it. The whole house has been non-smoking since April 2021. Seiryuso draws on two wells of its own and sells itself on water quality rather than scale.

Hashizuya

木造りの宿 橋津屋

Hashizuya says nothing about tattoos, so read its shared baths as unanswered. Two detached reservable baths answer the question instead: Hinoki-no-yu and Maki-no-yu, open 15:00 to 21:30 and not bookable ahead. They are also the only part of the house sold to day visitors, from 15:00 to 20:45, by same-day phone call. In the Tsukishiro annex, the suites Akagane and Kohaku have private open-air tubs with an indoor tub beside them.

Best for: A day visitor with tattoos who wants a hot spring without booking a room

Two more baths, Ujo and Yakumo, swap between men and women rather than being reservable, so they are shared. The 2026 rebuild added the premium suite Ruri and the Tsukishiro suites Hisui and Meno, all with an open-air tub and an indoor tub. The suites take their meals in the main building’s dining room, Suiren.

Misasa Royal Hotel

三朝ロイヤルホテル

The hotel publishes no tattoo rule, so the garden bath and the big open-air bath beside it are an unanswered question. Its family bath is reservable and is the way around that: sugi and hinoki tubs fed by natural spring water, behind a large window onto the inner garden, taken in fifty-minute slots. Twelve slots run from 15:00 through 23:50 and again from 6:00 to 8:50, at ¥3,300 a turn.

Best for: Families who want a fixed reservation slot rather than a first-come queue

This one sits out of town along the Misasa river at Ose, not on the spa street, so plan on the hotel shuttle or a car. The shared baths run 15:00 to 1:00 and 4:00 to 9:00, with the men’s and women’s sides swapped in the morning. A mist house is attached to the open-air bath, which the hotel says lets you take the spring in through breath as well as skin.

Iwayu

旬彩の宿 いわゆ

Iwayu has no published tattoo rule, which leaves its shared bath unanswered. The detached house, Take-no-yado, sidesteps that: a sixty-year-old building let to one party a day, with a garden open-air bath of its own. The inn says it keeps staff out of that space as far as it can, and for that reason serves dinner in a private room in the main building rather than in the detached house.

Best for: A couple who wants a whole small house to themselves for one night

Only one party a night can have the detached house, so it goes early on weekends. Meals are the main event at this inn, which sells itself on seasonal Tottori produce rather than on the scale of its bathing.

Blancart Misasa

健康づくりの宿 ブランナールみささ

Blancart publishes nothing on tattoos, so its large bath and riverside open-air bath are unanswered. The family bath is the workable route: the hotel calls it a 100 percent radon-source family bath and offers a second, step-free bath beside it for anyone who cannot manage a lip or a stair. Both are used by one party at a time.

Best for: A guest with tattoos who also needs a bath without steps

The house is built around toji, the old stay-and-treat tradition, and runs a radon heat-air bath in addition to the water. Meals are pitched as health cooking rather than banquet cooking.

Yuraku

かがり火の宿 有楽

No tattoo rule is published, so treat the two large baths as unanswered. The reservable bath is a granite indoor tub that the inn drains and refills for every group, which is about as private as a hot spring gets. It costs ¥1,650 for the party, runs 15:30 to 20:30, is held for overnight guests only, and has to be booked ahead by phone or email.

Best for: A solo traveler or pair who wants the first water of the day at a modest price

The inn writes its bath pages in Japanese and English side by side, which is rare in this town. The large baths do not swap sides: women on the first floor, men on the second, 15:00 to 23:00 and 6:00 to 9:00. Day visitors may use the large bath and open-air bath for ¥800, but never the reservable bath.

Izanro Iwasaki

依山楼 岩崎

Izanro publishes no tattoo rule, so its two big bath halls, Hidari-no-yu and Migi-no-yu, are an unanswered question. The room list is explicit where the bath pages are silent: every room sold as an open-air room has a source-flow tub. The Sansuikaku and Tozankaku wings have hinoki open-air rooms of 45 to 58 square meters, and the Futaba floor has a half-open-air room of 35.2 square meters facing the Misasa river.

Best for: A traveler who wants the town’s landmark inn without using its bath halls

The two bath halls swap between men and women at 5:00 in the morning and close for cleaning from 10:00 to 11:00. A radium steam room runs 11:00 to 24:00, from noon on Wednesdays. The house has been in business more than a century and keeps a gallery of its own history off the lobby.