Magoroku Onsen Rokuan
孫六温泉 六庵
Does Magoroku Onsen Rokuan allow tattoos? In a private bath
The valley’s 1902 cure bath has come back as Rokuan, twelve guests at a time, with a Nordic barrel sauna at one end and a mixed-bathing zone where every bather wears a garment at the other.
Rokuan publishes no tattoo rule, and the answer for a tattooed guest is one of the three detached rooms, each of which has an open-air bath of its own. The house does require a bathing garment, a yuami-gi, in its mixed zone, and it is worth being clear about what that means: it is a modesty rule that applies to every bather regardless of skin, it is not written as tattoo permission, and the operator has not said whether a tattoo under it is acceptable. Ask before you rely on it. The reservable indoor family bath is listed as suspended.
Show this at the front desk
露天風呂付離れ 個室（3室） 漣光（れんこう） 瀬音（せおと） 玉響（たまゆら）
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Sendai STN
Tazawako STN change to Ugo Kotsu bus · 47 min
Komachi Shinkansen 80 min
Yamagata STN
Morioka STN
Fukushima STN
Hotel locationNyuto Onsen STN
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 客室 block on the inn’s front page, and its English page: “Private rooms with private open-air baths (3 rooms)”)
Read on: magorokuonsen.com/
Best for: One of three detached rooms with an open-air bath on its own deck, for two people at a time
The mixed zone is sold as a separate ticket and the wording is exact: 「※混浴エリアは「湯浴み着」の着用です」. Day bathing runs 10:00–15:00, last reception 14:30, closed Fridays. The 700-yen Okigaru plan buys the men’s and women’s indoor bath, Karako-no-Yu, and nothing else; the 3,000-yen Mankitsu plan adds the mixed open-air bath, the mixed stone indoor bath and the Nordic barrel sauna with its cold plunge, and that is the ticket the garment rule attaches to. Children pay 400 and 2,000. The inn does not say whether the garment is lent or sold. Guests bathe 15:00–23:00 in the indoor baths, 15:00–22:00 in the mixed open-air bath and sauna, and 5:00–10:00 in the morning. Six rooms in all, two people to a room, twelve guests in the house; rooms 45,100 to 75,900 yen with meals, and there is no room-only plan. Opened in 1902 and reworked as Rokuan. There is no road to the door: from December to around April cars use the P3 lot opposite Ogama, nine spaces, and it is about 800 meters and fifteen minutes on snow, with the inn carrying luggage if you book it; in summer the P1 and P2 lots on the Kuroyu side put you five minutes away, and a summer shuttle runs to Kyukamura. Cash, cards and some QR payment. No elevator, no barrier-free room, non-smoking throughout.
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