Misasa, the large house above the river garden Large historic ryokan with source-flow open-air rooms ★★★★☆

Izanro Iwasaki

依山楼岩崎

Does Izanro Iwasaki allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Izanro has stood over the Misasa river for more than a hundred years, and every room it sells as an open-air room is plumbed straight from the source.

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.

Where it is

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.. Izanro Iwasaki · 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 客室 index, which states the open-air room tubs are 源泉かけ流し)

Read on: izanro.co.jp/room/

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.

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Others in the same group

More places in the Misasa Onsen with private bath only

HashizuyaMisasa, on the lane behind the riverside street → IwayuMisasa, on the riverside street → Blancart MisasaMisasa, upstream beside the river → MansuirouYamada, at the quiet upstream end of the spa street → SeiryusoMisasa, above the river across from the town bridge → Ryokan OhashiMisasa, on the riverside street at the Misasa bridge →

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