Miyajima island, Minami-machi, three minutes from Itsukushima Shrine Ryokan with rooms that have their own open-air bath ★★★★☆

Miyajima Grand Hotel Arimoto

宮島グランドホテル有もと

Does Miyajima Grand Hotel Arimoto allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The rooms are the reason to come: total-hinoki open-air tubs looking over the shrine roofs, and one sea-side suite with a half-open bath, a cold plunge and a sauna of its own.

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.

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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。

The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.

Where it is

Hiroshima STN Miyajimaguchi STN change JR Sanyo line 27 min Okayama STN Hotel location
Miyajima pier STN
Hiroshima is the door for Miyajima, 27 minutes on the Sanyo line and a ten-minute ferry, and for the Yamaguchi towns, down the Shinkansen to Shin-Yamaguchi or Asa. Yubara and Yunogo are in the hills north of Okayama, which is 35 minutes from Hiroshima on the Shinkansen.. Miyajima Grand Hotel Arimoto · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

Visit Hiroshima Tourist Pass One, two or three days on Hiroshima’s streetcars, including the line out to Miyajimaguchi, and the ferry across to the island. Slower than the JR train, and it covers the boat. 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 (the hotel’s own Q&A, in Japanese and in its English translation) for the refusal, and from its rooms page for the private baths.

Read on: miyajima-arimoto.co.jp/inquiry/

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.

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