Tattoo friendly onsen in Okuhida

Miyama Ouan

匠の宿 深山桜庵

The house FAQ refuses tattooed guests in the large bath and, in the same answer, sends them to the four private baths instead. Those four are free, need no reservation, and are open from check-in until ten the next morning, with an extra window from eleven to three for guests staying on. A lit board by the entrance shows which of them are empty.

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4か所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: Four free lock-the-door baths in a timber house built by Hida carpenters.

Two of the four private baths are open-air and two are indoor, all free and unreserved, with a 30-minute turn asked of each party. Rooms with their own open-air bath are reached by stairs only, 13 steps. The large bath has a sauna, closed 1:00–5:00. Around 24,200 yen per person with two meals. No day-use bathing.

Nakamurakan

中村館

Nakamurakan says nothing about tattoos on any of its pages, so the shared baths stay an open question. What it does publish is three private baths, which a party books for itself and locks. Take those and the question does not arise; do not read the silence as permission for the men’s and women’s baths.

Best for: A saline spring rather than Hirayu’s usual simple water, in three baths that lock.

Three private baths alongside an indoor and an open-air bath for each sex. The spring is a chloride water, unusual in Hirayu where most houses run simple thermal water. Check-out is noon, later than most of the street. Around 15,400 yen per person with two meals, 9,900 yen without. No day-use bathing.

Yunohirakan

湯の平館

No tattoo rule appears anywhere on this ten-room inn’s site. Its bath page instead describes three reservable open-air baths of different sizes, free and unlimited for house guests, and that is the route a tattooed traveler should plan on. The shared indoor and rock baths remain unanswered.

平湯温泉のお湯をよりゆっくりと楽しんでいただけるように3つの貸切風呂をご用意いたしました。ご宿泊のお客様は無料で何度でもご利用いただけます。

Best for: Three private open-air baths in different sizes, free as often as you like.

Private baths usable 6:00–9:00 and 15:00–23:00, closed overnight for safety. Two springs feed the house: an iron-bearing indoor bath and a sulfur-and-salt source, Takara no Yu No. 2, at 95.2°C. Ten Japanese-style rooms, an elevator, and a choice of hearth-side or private dining. Around 17,000 yen per person with two meals. No day-use bathing.

Tsuyukusa

旅荘つゆくさ

A ten-bed inn with three private baths and no published tattoo rule. The site carries an FAQ, a price page and a house-rules page, and none of them raises the subject, so the private baths are the answer here by structure. Bookings are room-only, and the baths are what the house is built around.

Best for: Three lockable baths at the cheapest room rate on the Hirayu street.

Three private baths and no gendered shared bath at all. Rooms are Japanese-style, room-only from about 5,500 yen. Ten beds across the main house and guest house, plus a separate annex. Day-use bathing is accepted. A bicarbonate spring.

Tabist Kazeyuki

風雪

Kazeyuki has two private baths and no gendered shared bath, and neither the house page nor the Tabist chain page it sits on says anything about tattoos. The structure settles it: you bathe alone or with your own party. The bus terminal is four minutes away on foot, which makes this the easiest bed in Hirayu to reach without a car.

Best for: Two private baths four minutes’ walk from the Hirayu bus terminal.

Two private baths, no shared bath. Japanese-style rooms, 26 beds, room-only from about 7,500 yen. Bicarbonate spring, free-flowing. Rooms face the North Alps. No day-use bathing.

Yumoto Choza

湯元 長座

Choza publishes no tattoo rule on any of its pages, including the guest FAQ, which was read on 2026-09-18. Its bath page instead advertises three free private bathhouses, each with its own open-air pool, taken by choosing a vacant one from a lit panel and locking the door. Two further open-air baths stand outside the building in a riverside grove.

無料でご利用できる貸切浴場が3カ所ご利用戴けます。それぞれに、露天風呂が併設し貸切温泉が楽しめ、ご家族など気兼ねなくゆっくりとお楽しみください。

Best for: Three free private bathhouses, each with an open-air pool of its own.

A vacancy panel shows which private baths are empty; you lock the door behind you. The indoor main bath is built from logs cut on the hill behind the inn. Shizuku no Yu and Kawara no Yu stand outside the front door along a path through the trees. Bicarbonate and simple springs. Around 28,600 yen per person with two meals. Day-use bathing is accepted.

Onyado Hisui

御宿 飛水

Hisui says nothing about tattoos on its own pages. It does hold two open-air baths with their own indoor tub attached, taken privately, alongside one further reservable bath, and those are the route to plan on. One of the open-air baths is mixed, so a party that wants to be alone should reserve rather than wander in.

Best for: Two private open-air baths that each come with their own indoor tub.

One reservable bath, two private open-air baths with an attached indoor tub, one mixed open-air bath, and gendered indoor and open-air baths. Simple thermal spring. Japanese-style rooms, 66 beds, around 16,500 yen per person with two meals. No day-use bathing.

Ryokan Gizan

旅館 岐山

Gizan keeps four private baths and publishes no rule about tattoos on any page of its site. Book one of the four and the shared baths need not come into it. The house holds 70 beds, so the private baths get busy; ask at check-in rather than at bedtime.

Best for: Four private baths in the largest inn on the Shin-Hirayu road.

Four private baths beside an indoor and an open-air bath for each sex. Simple thermal spring. Japanese and western-style rooms, 70 beds. Around 17,600 yen per person with two meals, 14,300 yen room-only. No day-use bathing.

Kutsuroginoya Yuu

寛ぎの舎 游

Four of the rooms here have a bath of their own, and there is one further reservable bath, while the site carries no tattoo rule at all. Book one of those four rooms and the question never reaches the front desk. A party in an ordinary room should reserve the private bath at check-in, since there is only one.

Best for: Four rooms that come with a bath, in a 25-bed house.

Four rooms with their own bath, one reservable private bath, plus an indoor and an open-air bath for each sex. Simple thermal spring. 25 beds, around 18,900 yen per person with two meals. No day-use bathing.

Okuhida Garden Hotel Yakedake

奥飛騨ガーデンホテル焼岳

The Yakedake site was crawled in full on 2026-09-18 and carries no tattoo rule, which matters because this is one of the few houses in the valley that also sells day-use bathing. There is one reservable private bath, and that is the dependable route. The two mixed open-air baths are the draw for everyone else and should not be assumed to be open to tattooed bathers.

Best for: A single private bath in a house whose other eight pools are open to the public.

One reservable private bath, four open-air baths for each sex, two mixed open-air baths, and an indoor bath for each sex. Day-use bathing 12:00–21:00 at 900 yen, towel 200 yen, bath towel rental 200 yen, on days the hotel is open. Bicarbonate and chloride springs. 353 beds. Around 20,900 yen per person with two meals, 11,000 yen room-only.

Kyomu no Yado Yamaboshi

郷夢の宿 山ぼうし

Yamaboshi sells itself on rooms with an open-air bath attached and keeps two further reservable baths, and it publishes no tattoo rule. A room with its own bath removes the question entirely; the two private baths do the same for anyone in a plain room. Nothing here should be read as permission for the gendered baths.

Best for: Rooms with their own open-air bath, plus two more baths that lock.

Two reservable private baths alongside an indoor and an open-air bath for each sex, and rooms sold with an attached open-air bath. Simple thermal spring. 50 beds, around 19,800 yen per person with two meals. No day-use bathing.

Nakaodaira

山の旅舎 中尾平

Nakaodaira has no gendered bath at all: every one of its six baths is taken privately, and its English bath page says so and adds that tattoos are therefore not a concern. You hang the occupied sign and lock the door. This is the clearest answer any house in Okuhida gives a tattooed traveler.

All baths are private so please do not be concerned if you have tattoos.

Best for: Six baths, every one of them private, and the operator says the ink does not matter.

Six private baths and no shared bath. You display the occupied sign at the entrance and lock the door. Shampoo, conditioner and soap are set in the indoor baths. The Nakao Kogen source is a high-temperature steam spring, cooled with added water, with no chlorination and no recirculation. Chloride spring. Seventeen beds, around 19,580 yen per person with two meals. No day-use bathing.

Ryokan Yakenoyu

旅館 焼乃湯

Yakenoyu asks tattooed guests to stay out of the gendered indoor baths and then names its three private open-air baths as theirs to use, saying anyone may take them without hesitation. That is a rare thing to find written down in this valley: a refusal and a replacement in the same paragraph. The private baths have no shower, only a bucket and the hot inflow.

恐れ入りますが、タトゥー・刺青のあるお客様の「内湯（男女別）」のご利用はご遠慮いただいております。当館自慢の「3つの貸切露天風呂」につきましては、どなたでも気兼ねなくご利用いただけますので、ぜひそちらでゆっくりと湯浴みをお楽しみください。

Best for: Three private open-air baths the house names as the answer for tattooed guests.

Shampoo is set in the private open-air baths but there is no shower; you rinse with the bucket from the hot inflow, and the house asks you to keep suds out of the pool. White flakes in the water are crystallized minerals, not dirt. The source runs hot, so watch your footing. Simple thermal spring. 38 beds, around 14,300 yen per person with two meals. No day-use bathing.

Hodakaso Yamano Hotel

穂高荘 山のホテル

Nothing on this hotel’s site addresses tattoos, but its FAQ does state that the mixed open-air bath, the one it is known for, may only be entered wearing a yuamigi bathing gown, rented at the front desk for 300 yen. A gown covers what a towel would not, and the three private baths cover the rest. The gendered indoor baths remain unanswered.

混浴露天風呂のみ、湯浴み着の着用が必須です。

Best for: A mixed open-air bath where a rented gown is compulsory for everyone.

Three private baths, one mixed open-air bath and gendered indoor and open-air baths. The mixed bath runs 15:00 to 9:30 the next morning, ending at 7:00 on cleaning mornings; gowns are 300 yen from the front desk. Saunas in both large baths, 15:00–22:00, not mornings. Bicarbonate and simple springs, free-flowing from the hotel’s own source. 203 beds, around 19,800 yen per person with two meals. No day-use bathing.