Tagiri, on the slope between Akakura Onsen and the Akakura Kanko ski area Ryokan ★★★☆☆

Ryokan Okayama

旅館おかやま

Does Ryokan Okayama allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A family-run inn on the Akakura slope whose private bath is a single hinoki tub with Mount Myoko in the window, rented by the 45 minutes at the front desk and open through the winter when the inn’s own open-air bath is shut.

No tattoo rule is published for the shared baths. The inn’s answer is Donguri-no-yu, a private bath built all of hinoki with a view of Mount Myoko, 1,100 yen for 45 minutes. It cannot be booked ahead: ask at the front desk when you check in, and at busy times your hour may be taken.

Where it is

Everything here is reached from Tokyo. Karuizawa is an hour on the Hokuriku Shinkansen and Echigo-Yuzawa 79 minutes on the Joetsu Shinkansen, both with no change. Kawaguchiko is the Fuji Excursion from Shinjuku, about two hours, and Isawa the Kaiji, an hour and forty. The Nagano towns change once: Bessho at Ueda, Nozawa at Iiyama, and Yudanaka, Hakuba and Myoko at Nagano.. Ryokan Okayama · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR East Pass Covers the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagano. The Shinano Railway on to Myoko-Kogen is a separate company and 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 inn’s hot spring page)

Read on: okayamakan.jp/spa/

Best for: Forty-five minutes alone in a cypress tub facing Mount Myoko, in any season

Donguri-no-yu private bath: 07:00–22:00, 1,100 yen per 45 minutes (the English page still says 1,050), booked at check-in only, open all year. The inn lists it among its hot spring baths and says all its water is free-flowing Akakura spring with nothing added. The Shirakaba open-air bath alternates men and women by the hour and closes November to mid-April; the indoor hinoki bath is open 24 hours. Guest rooms have shower booths or shared facilities, not tubs. No elevator.

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