Naruko, above the main street with the valley in front of it Hotel

Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Masuya

大江戸温泉物語 鳴子温泉 ますや

Does Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Masuya allow tattoos? Yes, covered

Cover seal required

The biggest of the Naruko houses to publish a tattoo rule, and the rule comes with a shop: the seal you need is sold at the desk, in the size the hotel has decided on.

Masuya bars tattooed guests from the large baths unless the tattoo is covered, and it sells the cover itself. The wording is exact about what counts: a cover seal of the hotel’s own specification, bought on site, and the tattoo hidden completely. Nothing is said about a size ceiling, so the practical limit is how much skin one of their seals will hide.

Show this at the front desk

※入れ墨・タトゥーのある方は大浴場をご利用いただけません。ただし、当館指定のカバーシール(有料)を貼って、 入れ墨・タトゥーが完全に覆える場合に限り、大浴場をご利用いただけます

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

Where it is

Sendai STN Furukawa STN change to JR Rikuu East line · 46 min Tohoku Shinkansen 12 min Yamagata STN Morioka STN Fukushima STN Hotel location
Naruko-Onsen STN
Sendai is the door to all of these. Akiu is 43 minutes on one bus from the station, with no change. Nyuto is the Komachi, JR’s Shinkansen across to Akita, as far as Tazawako, then a bus of 47 minutes, about 2 h 20 in all. Naruko is twelve minutes on the Shinkansen to Furukawa and three quarters of an hour up the Rikuu East line. Zao is the Senzan line rapid over the mountains to Yamagata, then a bus of 37 minutes up to the ski village. Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Masuya · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

What happens when you arrive

Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, to the size on this page. How the seals work, and where to buy them →

How we know

Confirmed from official site (the ご案内 block under the day-use plans on the hotel’s own page)

Read on: ooedoonsen.jp/masuya/day_trip/

Best for: One or two small pieces that a bought seal can cover, in a hotel that says so in writing

Buy the seal at the desk; the rule is published under the day-use plans and applies to the large baths, indoor and open-air. Seventy rooms, buffet meals, sulfur chloride water at pH 8.3. Day-use plans with a meal are sold as well as overnight stays, and the same tattoo sentence sits under both. Reservations run through a central line, 9:00 to 19:00.

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