Tattoo friendly onsen in Nasu Onsen

RISONARE Nasu

リゾナーレ那須

Hoshino Resorts’ group FAQ says the group doesn’t restrict guests with tattoos, though staff may turn someone away from the baths if they judge other guests would be frightened. The same FAQ asks for cover seals only at baths that non-staying guests share, and this resort’s hot spring is for staying guests only.

私たちは、お客様の文化背景や価値観を尊重し、刺青・タトゥーをされているお客様の利用を制限しておりません。 しかしながら、すべてのお客様が快適にお過ごしいただけるよう、他のお客様が恐怖心を抱く可能性があると私たちが判断した場合、温泉・大浴場のご利用をお断りする場合がございます。

Best for: families after a farm-and-forest resort stay with a guests-only hot spring

The hot spring is on the basement floor of the main building, open 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. and 5 to 11 a.m., for staying guests only. The resort has 43 rooms and takes dogs in some of them. A free shuttle runs from Nasushiobara Station if booked three days ahead.

Hotel Laforet Nasu

ホテルラフォーレ那須

Tattooed bathers are refused unless two cover seals of 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) hide the tattoo, in which case they may bathe. Anything larger than two seals can cover is turned away.

※ タトゥー（入れ墨）を入れている方のご入浴はお断りしています。ただし、カバーシール（8cm×10cm）2枚でタトゥーを隠していただける場合のみご入浴可能です。

Best for: a small tattoo, a milky sulfur bath and a room or cottage at a moderate price

The page doesn’t say whether the front desk sells seals. The bath is in the hotel building; guests in the cottages walk over to it.

FOURTREAT plus NASUKOGEN

フォートリート+那須高原

The rule is the Relo Hotels & Resorts group FAQ. A tattoo may go into the baths if two of the hotel’s own seals, 10 cm × 15 cm (3.9 × 5.9 in) each, can cover it, and the front desk sells them for ¥250 apiece. The same rule covers the sauna and the open-air bath.

刺青 ・ タトゥーがある方につきましては、施設指定のカバーシール2 枚で覆うことができるサイズに限り、ご入浴・プール施設をご利用いただけます。・タトゥーカバーシール サイズ10cm×15cm 1枚￥250（フロントにて販売）

Best for: a mid-size tattoo and a cloudy Shika-no-yu sulfur soak with a view

Formerly the Nasu Kogen Hotel View Palace. The open-air bath runs on the Shika-no-yu source, flowing through. The group FAQ says guests who refuse the seals may be turned away.

Hotel Shiki no Yakata Nasu

ホテル四季の館那須

Shiki no Yakata publishes no tattoo rule on its live pages. Every room has its own tub of the hotel’s hot spring, so a tattooed guest never has to share.

Best for: couples who want a hot spring tub in the room at a highland resort hotel

The rooms page says every room has its own tub of the hotel’s bicarbonate spring, in cypress or ceramic depending on the room; the top suite adds an open-air bath. Adults only, junior high age and up. Some rooms take small dogs for a surcharge.

Nasu Bettei Kai

那須別邸 回

The inn answers this in its own FAQ: because every room has its own bath, a guest with tattoos can stay without worrying. There is no shared bath on site to be turned away from.

タトゥー・入れ墨がある場合宿泊できますか？客室ごとにお風呂がございますので、気兼ねなくご宿泊ください。

Best for: couples who want a detached suite with its own hot spring bath

Every room has its own bath fed with hot spring water, with a second tap of well water to adjust the temperature; the inn says it also filters and recirculates the room baths for hygiene. Guests may walk next door to the large bath at Sansuikaku, which is a shared bath. Check-in 3 p.m., check-out 11 a.m.

Wellness no Mori Nasu

ウェルネスの森 那須

The hotel’s FAQ asks guests with tattoos not to use the large bath, and in the same answer points them to its free private baths or the bath in their room instead. The private baths are unlocked for anyone staying, first come first served.

当館では「刺青」が入った方の大浴場のご利用はご遠慮頂いております。他にも、館内に【無料貸切風呂】をご用意しておりますので、温泉のご利用は貸切風呂または客室のお風呂をご利用くださいませ。

Best for: families who want a free lockable spring bath without booking a slot

Four private baths, each styled differently, run on the hotel’s own spring flowing through; they are free during opening hours and locked from the inside. A fifth, for bathing with a pet, is paid and booked ahead. Day bathing is suspended.

Nasu Hoshi no Akari

ぬくもりに心なごむ湯宿 星のあかり

The inn’s FAQ says a guest with a tattoo cannot use the large bath and should use the open-air bath in the room. Every room has one, so the room bath is always there.

刺青が入っていても大浴場は利用できます？ご入浴いただけません。客室露天風呂をご利用くださいませ。

Best for: a room with its own open-air hot spring bath looking out over the Kanto Plain

The room baths run on a sodium bicarbonate spring; the large bath uses a different, milky sulfur spring. Second-floor rooms face either the Kanto Plain or the Nasu peaks.

Nasu Onsen Sanraku

那須温泉 山楽

Sanraku publishes no tattoo rule. Its rooms with an open-air bath answer the question, so book one of those rather than a standard room.

Best for: a private open-air tub of the same spring that feeds the Imperial villa

Four types of special room have an open-air or half-open-air bath: the west-wing garden rooms, the east-wing half-open-air rooms and the Cattleya suite among them. The spring is piped 5.4 km downhill by gravity and used with no heating, recirculation or filtering.

Nasu Kogen no Yado Sansuikaku

那須高原の宿 山水閣

Sansuikaku publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private baths, booked ahead for an hour at a time, and several rooms with a bath of their own.

Best for: a booked hour in a private bath fed from the Omaru spring

The two private baths are booked in advance for 60 minutes; collect the key at the front desk and return it after. Rooms marked as having a bath include a maisonette with the inn’s largest room bath. The inn says all its baths, room baths included, are filtered and recirculated, with water or heat added to adjust the temperature.

Kokoro no Oyado Jizaiso

こころのおやど 自在荘

Jizaiso publishes no tattoo rule. Any staying guest can use its half-open-air private bath, and some rooms have a garden open-air bath of their own.

Best for: families with small children who want a private turn in a source-flowing bath

The private bath runs from 1:30 to 10 p.m. (last entry 9:30), 30 minutes a turn. The garden open-air rooms have a source-flowing tub and a shower room. The inn’s spring, which it says is also piped to the Imperial villa, can be drunk at a tap by the bath.

Ryokan Sankai

旅館 山快

Sankai publishes no tattoo rule. Its two private baths are free for staying guests and can’t be booked: walk in when one is empty.

Best for: a free private soak in cloudy Nasu-Yumoto sulfur water at any hour

Two private baths, about 50 minutes a turn, no reservations. The inn lets its 68°C spring cool naturally in the tub to 36 to 42°C with no recirculation, and the baths are open 24 hours.

Wakaki Ryokan

若喜旅館

Wakaki publishes no tattoo rule. Some of its rooms have a source-flowing open-air bath, and the inn has announced that its rooftop private bath is reopening.

Best for: a small inn where the room itself has an open-air tub of flowing spring water

Book a Japanese-Western room with an open-air bath; the view rooms have a bath with a window over five peaks. The inn’s notice says the rooftop private open-air bath would reopen in early July; confirm it is running before counting on it.

Nasu Onsen Shinshun no Kago Hewitt Resort

那須温泉 森旬の籠／ヒューイットリゾート

Shinshun no Kago publishes no tattoo rule. Every room has its own half-open-air bath of source-flowing sulfur water, so there is nothing to share.

Best for: couples who want a new build with a private sulfur tub and sometimes a sauna in the room

Some rooms add a private sauna. The water is a cloudy simple sulfur spring, flowing through.

Nasu Ichiya Hotel

那須いちやホテル

Ichiya publishes no tattoo rule. Its rooftop and sixth-floor open-air baths are private and free: each room gets one 40-minute slot, booked at check-in, and early morning is open to walk in.

Best for: a free private open-air bath on the roof with a view over the highlands

Slots start from 3:30 p.m. and are handed out first come at check-in; from 5:30 to 9:30 a.m. the private baths are free time. The shared baths are a mild alkaline spring.

AQUA SWEET

アクアスイート

Aqua Sweet publishes no tattoo rule. Every room has its own open-air hot spring tub, and five more private baths on the grounds are free and unlocked around the clock.

Best for: couples who want a hot spring tub on the balcony and a choice of five more to lock themselves into

Four private open-air baths (two with a sauna) and one indoor private bath, free 24 hours; no booking, lock from inside, about 30 minutes each when busy. The sauna runs 3 to 11 p.m. The hotel says its spring is heated, filtered, recirculated and disinfected.

Forest Resort Hotel Green Pearl Nasu

フォレストリゾート ホテルグリーンパール那須

Green Pearl publishes no tattoo rule. Its open-air bath can be reserved for your party alone, first come by phone, and rooms rebuilt in July 2024 have their own open-air bath.

Best for: a reserved turn alone in a milky, source-flowing sulfur bath

Private use of the open-air bath is first come, reserved by phone; the page gives no set windows now (two daily windows were once listed and survive only in a comment). The rooms with an open-air bath, rebuilt in July 2024, use Nasu hot spring water. The hotel has 21 rooms.

THE KEY HIGHLAND NASU

ザ キー ハイランド ナス

THE KEY has no published tattoo rule. Its suites have a private open-air bath drawing natural hot spring water, so book a suite to bathe alone.

Best for: an all-inclusive stay where drinks come with the room and the suite has its own spring bath

There are two suite types with an open-air bath; Suite type A (five rooms, 50 m²) sleeps two to four.

Rosewood Garden & Villa

ローズウッドガーデン＆ヴィラ

Rosewood publishes no tattoo rule, and it has no shared bath: every room has its own covered open-air hot spring bath beside the stream.

Best for: a family who want one big open-air spring tub to share by the river

The open-air baths are hot spring water; the indoor tubs are local well water that the hotel heats, which it says plainly. Some rooms have an oversized open-air bath for several people. A six-hour day stay of a room with its bath is sold too.

Hotel Harvest Nasu

ホテルハーヴェスト那須

Harvest Nasu’s pages carry no tattoo rule. Its family bath can be reserved by the hour, which gives a tattooed guest a spring bath of their own.

Best for: a booked hour in a family bath at a large highland resort

The family bath costs ¥3,300 an hour, 3 p.m. to midnight, by reservation; it is free for an hour for guests with a disability certificate or in a wheelchair, and has handrails. The shared baths are a weakly alkaline spring with a sauna.

Matsukawaya Nasu Kogen Hotel

松川屋那須高原ホテル

Matsukawaya publishes no tattoo rule. It rents two private baths by the hour on top of the admission fee, so a tattooed bather can have one alone.

Best for: day trippers who want an hour alone in a stone tub refilled just for them

Private baths: the round one is ¥3,500 an hour, the other ¥4,500, plus admission (¥1,000 on weekdays, ¥1,300 on weekends and holidays). Open noon to 9 p.m., last entry 8 p.m. The site gives Thursday as the closing day on one page and Wednesday and Thursday on another, so check before going. It stopped taking overnight guests in April 2023 and says stays should resume around 2027.