Ryokan Sakaya
旅館さかや
Does Ryokan Sakaya allow tattoos? In a private bath
One family has kept Sakaya beside O-yu for eighteen generations, and the spring that fills its baths rises on the inn’s own ground; the bath you book for yourself is the small indoor Matsu-no-yu.
Sakaya publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths, in Japanese or in English, so do not plan on them. What it does have is Matsu-no-yu, an indoor family bath that guests reserve and use alone. The Kame-no-yu open-air spa on the same grounds is mixed and bathed in a swimsuit or a rented bathing wrap, and the inn says nothing about tattoos there either.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Iiyama STN change to Nozawa Onsen Liner bus · 25 min
Hokuriku Shinkansen 104 min
Hotel locationNozawa Onsen STN
JR East Pass Covers the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Iiyama. The Nozawa Onsen Liner bus up to the village 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 bath page and the inn information page, Japanese and English)
Read on: ryokan-sakaya.co.jp/furo.html
Best for: Sleeping at the center of the village with a reservable family bath in the building
Private bath: Matsu-no-yu (松の湯), one indoor family bath, by reservation (“予約制”). No fee is published. Shared: the men’s Taka-no-yu and women’s Tsuki-no-yu, split into hot, warm and lying-down baths, with the Tsukimi-no-tani open-air baths, a sauna and a cold spring-water plunge. Kame-no-yu, by the inn’s Jon-nobi condo, is a mixed open-air spa worn with swimsuits or rented bathing wear. The spring rises on the inn’s own land. Eighteen generations of one family, by the inn’s count.
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