Hanayama Onsen Yakushi-no-Yu
花山温泉 薬師の湯
Does Hanayama Onsen Yakushi-no-Yu allow tattoos? Yes, covered
You can bathe if the tattoo is completely hidden under a cover seal. The size the property allows is the thing to check before you book — allowances differ enough between chains to decide the matter.
Admitted since 1 July 2025 if a single cover seal of 11×20 cm (4.3×7.9 in), bought from the ticket machine, covers the tattoo completely. Refusing to use the facility’s own seal means refusal of entry. Before that date the ban was absolute.
Seal size allowed: 11×20 cm (4.3×7.9 in)
Show this at the front desk
当館券売機にて販売のタトゥーカバーシール（11cm×20cm）1枚までで、完全に覆うことができる場合はご入館いただけることといたします。
The operator’s own wording, copied from the page named under “How we know” below. Holding up your phone settles the question faster than explaining it.
What happens when you arrive
Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, with a seal that fits the size the property allows — that figure is in the policy line at the top of this page, and it is the property’s, not ours. Where the seals are sold at the front desk, buy them at check-in rather than at bath time; where they are not, bring your own. A seal that does not cover the whole tattoo counts as no seal, and staff are within their rules to turn you away at the door. Nothing needs declaring, but nothing may show.
How we know
Confirmed Confirmed from official site (facility’s own notice, dated 17 June 2025)
Read on: hanayamaonsen.com/news/1228/
Best for: One of the most concentrated mineral springs in the country — self-carbonated, thick with mineral deposits
Rare among the facilities on this site in saying why it changed: the rise in overseas visitors, shifting attitudes to small fashion tattoos, and a Japan Tourism Agency notice that refusing someone a bath solely for having a tattoo is not appropriate. Note that the site footer still carries the old blanket ban — the notice is the current rule. Closed Thursdays; 8:00–22:00.