Misasa, on the riverside street Small ryokan with a one-room detached house ★★★☆☆

Iwayu

旬彩の宿 いわゆ

Does Iwayu allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Take-no-yado is a sixty-year-old house standing apart from the main inn, let to one party a night, with a garden bath nobody else walks past.

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.

Where it is

Matsue STN Kurayoshi STN change to Hinomaru Bus · 12 min JR Super Matsukaze limited express 58 min Yonago STN Hotel location
Misasa Onsen STN
Matsue is the door, 2 h 35 from Okayama on the Yakumo limited express. Tamatsukuri is one stop west. Kaike is a bus from Yonago and Misasa a bus from Kurayoshi, both east along the San’in line, and Yunotsu is two hours west by way of Izumoshi.. Iwayu · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Sanyo-San’in Area Pass Seven days on JR West trains across both coasts for 23,000 yen, with reserved seats on the Sanyo Shinkansen between Shin-Osaka and Hakata and on the Yakumo limited express from Okayama to Matsue. It covers the Super Matsukaze from Matsue to Kurayoshi. The Hinomaru bus from Kurayoshi to Misasa, 340 yen, 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 — bath structure, not a tattoo policy (the room page for 別邸「竹の宿」)

Read on: iwayu.jp/room/takenoyado/

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.

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