Tattoo friendly onsen in Miyajima

Kinsuikan

錦水館

The large bath is closed to tattooed guests unless the tattoo is covered. The inn’s own Q&A says bathing with a tattoo is refused, then adds that it is allowed if you hide it yourself with something like a tattoo seal, and that the inn keeps none to give you. Bring your own cover, in the size your tattoo needs. The bath page separately bars decorative tattoo stickers and body paint, so a painted-on design is not a way around the rule.

Note: The tubs in the suites and special rooms are artificial mineral water, not hot spring water, and the inn labels them so. The spring is in the large bath, which takes a tattoo only under a seal.

タトゥー、入れ墨のある方の大浴場の入浴はお断りしています ただし、ご自身でタトゥーシールなどで隠していただける場合はご利用いただけます タトゥーシールのご用意はございませんので、あらかじめご了承ください

Best for: Bathing in Miyajima’s own seawater spring rather than a heated tub

Large bath 15:00 to 01:00 and 05:00 to 10:00; closed for cleaning 01:00–05:00 and 10:00–15:00. No day-use bathing at either this inn or its sister Hotel Miyajima Villa. The suites and special rooms with a semi-open-air tub are not on the spring: the inn labels that water 光明石 (artificial mineral) and says of one room type that it is heated water and not a hot spring. The cover-seal route is therefore the only way to the real spring water here.

Miyajima Grand Hotel Arimoto

宮島グランドホテル有もと

The shared baths are closed to you. Asked in its own Q&A whether the large bath has any restrictions, the hotel answers that there are none by age or condition, but asks guests with tattoos, and guests in swimsuits, to refrain. What is left is a room: several types come with their own open-air bath in solid hinoki, and one suite adds a cold plunge and a sauna on the sea side. Book one of those and the shared-bath rule never reaches you.

年齢や状態に対しての制限は御座いませんが、刺青やタトゥーのあるお客様、水着での入浴はご遠慮ください。

Best for: A hinoki bath of your own within three minutes of the shrine gate

The large bath is not a natural spring: the hotel labels it 活性石温泉, an artificial mineral bath certified under health-ministry rules. It does not say what the room baths run on, so treat them as tubs with a view rather than spring water. Guests in a room with an open-air bath get the Daikonya lounge and an 11:00 checkout instead of 10:00. The whole building is non-smoking. 55 rooms.

Iwaso

岩惣

Iwaso publishes no tattoo rule at all: 45 pages of its own site carry no mention of one, in either language. That silence is not permission for the two large baths. What can be booked instead is a cottage with its own bath. Of the four detached buildings, Shusenkei and Senshintei each have an indoor tub, and the inn says the Senshintei bath looks straight out into the valley.

Best for: A prewar wooden cottage with a bath in it, beside the Momijidani stream

The detached rooms date from the Taisho and early Showa years and are single-story, one building per party. Two of the four, Kinputei and one other, are listed as 風呂なし (no bath), so the room type matters: ask for Shusenkei (built 1928) or Senshintei. The inn does not say whether the cottage tubs run on its spring; the Wakamiya spring it does describe is a 18.6°C radon water that has to be heated. The two large baths, Hinode-yu and Tsuki-no-yu, take 30 people each and run 15:00 to 24:00 and 06:00 to 09:30.

Sekitei

庭園の宿 石亭

Every one of the twelve rooms has its own bath, so the question does not arise. The inn’s fact sheet lists the room fittings as open-air, half-open-air or karasu-buro tubs and marks them 全室完備, fitted in all rooms. There is also a salon with a reservable bath attached. Sekitei publishes no tattoo rule anywhere on its site, and that silence says nothing about any bath you would share.

Best for: A garden of 1,500 tsubo with a bath in every room that looks into it

Twelve rooms in three groups: three in the main house with the Seto view, seven detached ones facing the garden, and two in the pavilions. Dinner is served in the room, breakfast in the hall, and chairs can replace floor seating on request. The spring is a simple weak radioactive water. Rooms sit on a gentle slope with steps, though the inn says it can put guests in a step-free room and keeps a wheelchair.

Miyahama Grand Hotel

湯の宿 宮浜グランドホテル

Two baths here are booked by the party rather than shared. Madoka has a custom Shigaraki-ware tub and goes for 2,000 yen before tax for 45 minutes; Momiji is a half-open-air one. Neither needs a tattoo answer. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its rooftop and ground-floor baths, which take day visitors as well as guests, so do not read the gap as a yes.

Best for: A Shigaraki tub booked by the party, with the island across the water

The rooftop open-air bath is called Marumie Roten and the rock-built one below it Nozokimi Roten; men and women swap between them daily. Day bathing runs about 13:00 to 16:00 on the days the hotel opens it, with a published calendar, and there is a 3,980 yen morning plan that includes breakfast, the bath and a towel, sold only through the hotel’s own site with payment in advance.

Aki Grand Hotel & Spa

安芸グランドホテル

Bogen-no-yu, the open-air bath, is reserved by the party: 3,800 yen including tax for 45 minutes, up to six people, booked in advance by phone or at the front desk. That is the bath to use. The two indoor baths named Miyabi and Raku are shared and swap between men and women through the day, and the hotel publishes no tattoo rule for them.

Best for: Booking a private open-air bath that looks across at the shrine gate

The reservable bath takes three entry windows: 06:00 to 08:30, 10:00 to 14:30 and 16:00 to 22:30, last entry at each. The spring is a simple weak radioactive water and the hotel states plainly that it heats, dilutes, recirculates and filters it. Free shuttle from Miyajimaguchi station at 30-minute intervals in the operator’s own timetable.

Miyajima Hanare no Yado IBUKU

宮島離れの宿 IBUKU

The inn states that it pipes the source into every guest room, and the ten annex rooms each have an open-air bath. Nothing is shared, so there is no rule to satisfy. IBUKU publishes no tattoo statement, which matters only if you were hoping for a communal bath; there is none to be refused from.

Best for: Sitting in the source itself, on your own terrace, with no shared bath in the building

Ten annex rooms named for plants (Yamabuki, Ume, Fuji, Momiji, Yuzuha, Ai, Kurumi, Daidai, Sakura, Wakaba), two of them Western and the rest Japanese-Western for three; the main building adds three rooms on what the inn calls its bibo-yu fine-bubble water. The spring is a simple weak radioactive one rich in radon. Booking.com notes the property does not take children.

LiVEMAX RESORT Miyahama Ocean View

リブマックスリゾート宮浜温泉 Ocean

All fifty rooms have a Shigaraki-ware open-air tub on a private terrace, run free-flowing from the natural spring, which the operator calls the first of its kind in western Hiroshima. That is the bath to plan on. The top-floor bade zone, with its panorama open-air bath, carbonated pool, sauna, cold bath and stone-bed room, is shared and carries no published tattoo rule, so treat it as closed to you.

Best for: A free-flowing spring tub on your own balcony over the water

Opened December 2019. Fifty rooms across four themes, all sea-facing, with rattan chairs on the terrace beside the tub. The shared bade zone has an automatic loyly sauna and a hard cold bath; a seasonal outdoor pool operates in summer.