Misasa, on the riverside street at the Misasa bridge Registered-heritage ryokan with rooms built over its own spring ★★★★★

Ryokan Ohashi

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Does Ryokan Ohashi allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Ohashi was finished in 1932 and has barely been altered since, and the spring rises directly under the floor, which is why so many of its rooms have a tub of their own.

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.

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.. Ryokan Ohashi · 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 rooms page lists which rooms carry spring water)

Read on: o-hashi.net/rooms

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.

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Others in the same group

More places in the Misasa Onsen with private bath only

MisasakanYamada, on the north bank above the Misasa river bend → SeiryusoMisasa, above the river across from the town bridge → MansuirouYamada, at the quiet upstream end of the spa street → IwayuMisasa, on the riverside street → Izanro IwasakiMisasa, the large house above the river garden → HashizuyaMisasa, on the lane behind the riverside street →

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