Akan Tsuruga Bessou Hinanoza
あかん鶴雅別荘 鄙の座
The inn’s FAQ turns tattooed guests away from the large baths and counts stick-on tattoos in the same rule.
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Check availabilityPrivate baths where tattoos are not an issue
A kashikiri, sometimes listed as a family bath, is a bath you reserve for private use: you book a slot, and for that hour the water is yours. An in-room bath is the same idea without the clock. Either way you are not sharing the water, so the rule written for the communal bath does not reach you.
This is the most reliable route for a large or a full-body tattoo, and the only one that works at a property whose shared baths refuse tattoos outright. What to check is availability rather than policy — private baths are often bookable only at check-in, and at a busy ryokan they go quickly.
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Lake Akan
Akan Yuku no Sato Tsuruga
あかん遊久の里 鶴雅
The inn’s FAQ asks guests with tattoos not to use the large baths.
Check availabilityHotel Gozensui
ホテル御前水
The hotel doesn’t publish a tattoo rule for its large bath or its open-air bath.
Check availabilityLa Vista Akangawa
カムイの湯 ラビスタ阿寒川
No tattoo rule is published for the large bath, Kashinno-Yu. Every bath runs on the hotel’s own free-flowing spring by the river.
Check availabilityAkiu Onsen
Saryo Souen
茶寮宗園
The nine detached rooms are named on the inn’s room page: Taizan, Asahi, Tsukikage, Hourai, Shikishima, Saga, Shinonome, Kakkou and Kiritsubo.
Check availabilityArima Onsen
Arima Gyoen
有馬御苑
The ryokan refuses tattoos in its large bath and says fashion tattoos count. Its Fuyo Sanso special rooms each have an open-air bath in a small garden, on the silver spring, and that is the way to bathe here.
Check availabilityArima Onsen Gekkoen Korokan
有馬温泉 月光園 鴻朧館
Three reservable private baths, cypress, cave and wine, the cypress one step-free right to the water, which the ryokan mentions for wheelchair users and which matters to anyone who would rather not be looked at on the way in. The ryokan says the private baths aren’t hot spring water; for Arima’s spring in private, book a room with an open-air bath of its own.
Arima Onsen Gekkoen Korokan tattoo policy → · All Arima Onsen →
Check availabilityArima Onsen Ginsuiso Choraku
有馬温泉 銀水荘 兆楽
The clearest answer in Arima, and it comes from the ryokan itself: the large baths and the communal open-air bath are closed to tattooed guests, and its own FAQ then names the alternative. Take the reservable open-air bath instead, which costs extra. Nothing to cover, and nothing to explain at the door.
Arima Onsen Ginsuiso Choraku tattoo policy → · All Arima Onsen →
Check availabilityArima Onsen Nakanobo Zuien
有馬温泉 中の坊瑞苑
Not the large bath, and the ryokan says in the same answer what to do instead: book a private bath. Most rooms have an open-air bath of their own as well, which the answer doesn’t need to mention.
Arima Onsen Nakanobo Zuien tattoo policy → · All Arima Onsen →
Check availabilityArima Onsen Taketoritei Maruyama
有馬温泉 竹取亭円山
The baths carry both of Arima’s waters: kinsen, the iron-brown “gold spring,” and ginsen, the clear “silver spring.”
Arima Onsen Taketoritei Maruyama tattoo policy → · All Arima Onsen →
Check availabilityArima Royal Hotel
有馬ロイヤルホテル
Several room types have an open-air or semi-open-air tub of their own. The hotel states plainly that the bath in the room is not hot spring. It has no private bath to reserve, and its pages say nothing about tattoos in the large bath.
Check availabilityArima Sanso Gosho Bessho
有馬山叢 御所別墅
Ten detached villas of a hundred square meters each, and the hot spring comes to the bath in every one of them: the resort’s own words are that the room’s bath runs on onsen too. One villa has a gold-spring open-air bath built as a tree house. Nothing here has to be shared.
Arima Sanso Gosho Bessho tattoo policy → · All Arima Onsen →
Check availabilityHotel Hanakoyado
ホテル花小宿
The smallest inn in Arima answers with its private baths, which its guests use freely, and with a new run of Premium Twin rooms that have the gold spring piped into the room. Guests can also use the large bath at Goshobo, three minutes away, which carries no published rule.
Check availabilityKamenoi Hotel Arima
亀の井ホテル 有馬
Three Premium Japanese-Western room types, added in August 2025, have a bath on free-flowing gold spring. The hotel’s own pages say nothing about tattoos in the large bath, and it has no private bath to reserve.
Check availabilityKinzan
有馬温泉 欽山
The ryokan’s bath page refuses guests with tattoos in the large bath and the open-air bath, and in the same notice tells them to book a room with an open-air or half-open-air bath of its own. The Kiccho rooms, Kifune in the west wing and the East Wing rooms have that bath, on the radium spring.
Check availabilityKotori
有馬温泉 小都里
One room, Mukudori, has its own open-air bath on the silver spring. Guests can also reserve Hanagokoro, the private gold-spring bath at sister ryokan Hanamusubi, two minutes on foot, at ¥2,200 a person with a minimum of two. Kotori’s pages say nothing about tattoos.
Check availabilityMiyukiso Hanamusubi
御幸荘 花結び
Hanagokoro, on the seventh floor, is a private open-air view bath on the gold spring, booked ahead by phone at ¥2,200 a person, with a minimum of two. Five rooms on the sixth floor have an open-air bath of their own. The ryokan’s pages say nothing about tattoos.
Check availabilityMotoyu Ryusenkaku
元湯 龍泉閣
Four family suites each have an open-air bath on the ryokan’s own gold-spring source. There are also two private open-air baths, Kaede and Sakura, at ¥2,200 for 45 minutes, and the ryokan states that those two are not hot spring. Its pages say nothing about tattoos.
Check availabilityNegiya Ryofukaku
ねぎや陵楓閣
The two private baths are Yuzuriha-no-yu, indoors, and Natsume-no-yu, semi-open-air. Each pairs a tub of gold spring with one of plain hot water. They cost ¥3,300 for 45 minutes and are booked in the order guests check in. We found no tattoo wording on the ryokan’s pages, though part of its FAQ wouldn’t load.
Check availabilityOku no Hosomichi
天地の宿 奥の細道
The house rules refuse tattooed guests in the large bath. The ryokan’s way around it is the room: its room types A through D, L and M all have a bath on the gold spring or the ryokan’s own source. The annex also has a private bath, ¥5,000 for 50 minutes, booked at check-in.
Check availabilitySPA TERRACE Shisui
SPA TERRACE 紫翠
Three room types have a spring-water bath in the room, and one private bath is rented for 50 minutes at ¥5,500, booked at the desk on the day. The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for the shared baths. Its only tattoo sentence is in the notice for the summer pool, which tattooed guests are asked not to use.
Check availabilityShiki no Irodori Hatago
四季の彩 旅篭
All rooms come with a stone open-air bath for two on the gold spring. The lodging agreement refuses tattooed guests in the large bath, the same sentence its sister ryokan uses, though the ryokan’s pages describe no shared bath at all.
Check availabilityTakayamaso Hanano
高山荘 華野
Five suites have a bath in the room: two top-floor suites with both of Arima’s springs and three with the silver spring, one of those with its own sauna. The ryokan’s pages say nothing about tattoos in the shared view bath, which can’t be reserved privately.
Check availabilityTosen Goshobo
陶泉 御所坊
Yuya Matsukaze is a building of private baths only, three minutes on foot from the ryokan beside the Gosho source. Staying guests add it when they book, 60 minutes for ¥5,500. Day visitors book it on the ryokan’s own site, 60 minutes for ¥9,900. Goshobo’s pages say nothing about tattoos.
Check availabilityYuya no Yado Koki
湯屋の宿 康貴
The inn has four private baths, free for staying guests and for guests on its day-use plan. You book a 45-minute slot at check-in, first come first served, and can book another when you hand the key back. Its pages say nothing about tattoos.
Check availabilityAtami
Atami Hotel PAIPU NO KEMURI
熱海ホテルパイプのけむり
The hotel's own site publishes no tattoo policy for its shared baths.
Check availabilityAtami Sekitei
あたみ石亞
The ryokan's own site publishes no tattoo policy for its shared baths.
Check availabilityChikurin-an Mizuno
竹林庵 みずの
The ryokan publishes no tattoo policy, and with no large bath it has little to publish one about. Ask when you book if you want that in writing.
Check availabilityFufu Atami
ふふ 熱海
The refusal for the shared area is on the ryokan's hot spring page, in the same line as children in diapers. The suite bath is fed from the ryokan's own source and isn't touched by it.
Check availabilityNagahamaen
海のはな 長濱苑
The inn's own hot-spring page, in English and Japanese, says all five baths are private and free.
Check availabilityNew Tomiyoshi
熱海温泉 味と湯の宿 ニューとみよし
No tattoo policy is published, and with no shared bath there's none to apply. The four rooftop baths are partly recirculated.
Check availabilityPearl Star Hotel ATAMI
熱海パールスターホテル
The rule, in the hotel’s FAQ and terms of use, covers even small tattoos and names the Infinity Bath. In the lobby and restaurants, wear something that covers them.
Check availabilitySOKI ATAMI
The hotel's own site says every room has its own onsen bath. The shared bath publishes no tattoo policy.
Check availabilityUmi no Hana
海のはな
Every room has its own open-air hot-spring bath, which is the whole answer here. Nothing to cover, and nobody else in the water.
Check availabilityYamaki Ryokan
山木旅館
The ryokan's own site publishes no tattoo policy for its shared bath.
Check availabilityYuyado Ichibanchi
熱海温泉 湯宿一番地
The large baths publish no rule, so the private baths are the way in. The ryokan has two reservable private open-air baths and suites with a bath of their own, all drawn from its two springs. That's six baths in the house altogether.
Check availabilityAtsumi Onsen
Takamiya Bettei Kuon
高見屋別邸 久遠
Every bath at Kuon, the private ones included, runs on free-flowing Atsumi Onsen water.
Check availabilityAwaji Island
Awaji Hamarikyu Besso Takumi
あわじ浜離宮 別荘 鐸海
The terrace bath is there whenever you want it, with no booking and no time slots.
Awaji Hamarikyu Besso Takumi tattoo policy → · All Awaji Island →
Check availabilityUmi no Hotel Shimahana
海のホテル 島花
Two ways round the group’s rule under one roof: the Residence Villa rooms have an open-air hot spring bath of their own, and the hotel rents a private spa, Tou Onsen, a half-open-air bath booked by the slot. The group refuses tattooed guests at its large baths and says nothing about either of these; ask when you book.
Check availabilityYumesenkei Besso Amahara
夢泉景別荘 天原
Every one of the eighteen rooms has an open-air hot spring bath of its own, and that is the bath to plan on. The group that owns the house refuses tattooed guests at its large baths in its FAQ, and the FAQ says nothing about the baths in the rooms, so book the room, and ask in writing if you want the room bath confirmed.
Yumesenkei Besso Amahara tattoo policy → · All Awaji Island →
Check availabilityAwara Onsen
Awara Onsen Grand Hotel
あわら温泉グランドホテル
No tattoo rule is published. Reserve the private bath, Yumemakura, or book a room with its own open-air tub.
Check availabilityAwara Onsen Matsuya Sensen
あわら温泉 まつや千千
Nothing is published about tattoos. Book one of the thirteen rooms with a spring open-air bath of its own.
Awara Onsen Matsuya Sensen tattoo policy → · All Awara Onsen →
Check availabilityAwara Onsen Tsuruya
越前あわら温泉 つるや
No tattoo rule is published. Book the private bath, Tsuru no Su, by phone or email, or a room with its own open-air tub.
Check availabilityBeniya
光風湯圃 べにや
The ban is in the inn’s house rules, and it covers body paint too.
Check availabilityGrandia Housen
あわら温泉 グランディア芳泉
No tattoo rule is published. Stay in a room with its own open-air bath: all sixteen Kotobukitei suites and all fourteen Yutorogitei rooms have one.
Check availabilityHaiya
あわら温泉 伝統旅館のぬくもり 灰屋
The inn’s FAQ refuses tattoos in the large bath and the sauna, and points to the private bath, booked ahead. Reserve the private bath with its own sauna, or a Shofuan room with its own open-air tub.
Check availabilityHasegawa
越前あわら温泉 長谷川
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath or open-air bath, which day visitors also use.
Check availabilityMimatsu
北陸福井あわら温泉 美松
No tattoo rule is published. Book a room with an open-air bath on the inn’s own spring, usable from check-in to check-out.
Check availabilityRakuten STAY Awara Onsen
Rakuten STAY あわら温泉
There’s no shared bath. Every one of the 23 rooms has a bath fed from the inn’s own well, and check-in is by smart lock.
Rakuten STAY Awara Onsen tattoo policy → · All Awara Onsen →
Check availabilitySeifuso
あわら温泉 清風荘
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its garden baths or its newer bath hall, Komorebi no Yu.
Check availabilitySeiryukaku
あわら温泉 政竜閣
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its two large baths, Kochomon and Tsurukame no Yu.
Check availabilityYuraku
あわらの隠れ宿 ゆ楽
No tattoo rule is published. Rent the private bath, or ask for a Kurokabe room with its own open-air tub.
Note: The paid private bath is ordinary heated water, not hot spring water; the inn’s FAQ says so. The inn doesn’t say whether the Kurokabe room tubs are spring water, and room types can’t be chosen.
Check availabilityAwazu Onsen
Hoshi
法師
Hoshi publishes no tattoo rule. Rent one of the two private baths at the front desk after check-in, or book a room with its own spring-fed bath.
Check availabilityManten no Tsujinoya
満天ノ 辻のや
The FAQ asks tattooed guests to stay out of the large baths and Hanakaiyu and to use the bath in their room. Book a suite or twin with an open-air tub.
Note: The tubs in the rooms are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The inn’s own FAQ says so. The spring is only in the large baths, which tattooed guests are asked not to use.
Check availabilityBeppu Onsen
AMANE RESORT SEIKAI
潮騒の宿 晴海
The hotel describes all 14 room types as having an ocean view and an open-air bath of free-flowing hot-spring water.
Check availabilityHanabeppu
別府温泉 竹と椿のお宿 花べっぷ
Egao is a private bath, used by one party at a time and booked in 50-minute slots.
Check availabilityOkamotoya Ryokan
岡本屋旅館
The inn has no private bath to rent, so a room with its own bath is the only way to bathe alone.
Check availabilityOniyama Hotel
別府鉄輪温泉 おにやまホテル
The hotel doesn’t publish a tattoo policy for its large baths, and it closed its family and private baths in March 2024.
Check availabilityRyotei Matsubaya
旅亭 松葉屋
The inn doesn’t publish a tattoo policy for Tsuki-akari-no-yu, its large bath.
Check availabilitySEKIYA RESORT GALLERIA MIDOBARU
ガレリア御堂原
All 35 rooms have a half-open-air bath (han-roten, open to the air on one side) with a view over the town.
SEKIYA RESORT GALLERIA MIDOBARU tattoo policy → · All Beppu Onsen →
Check availabilitySanso Kannawaen
山荘 神和苑
The rule is on the inn’s bath page, next to a ban on drunk bathers.
Check availabilitySin-an
匠晴の宿 心庵
Every cottage is a detached two-story maisonette.
Check availabilityTenku Yubo Seikaiso
天空湯房 清海荘
The inn doesn’t publish a tattoo policy for its shared view bath.
Check availabilityUmine Annex
別館うみね
The villas are fully detached, each behind its own gate, so no one shares your water.
Check availabilityYamada Bessou
くつろぎの温泉宿 山田別荘
The inn doesn’t publish a tattoo policy for its indoor baths, which are shared, one for men and one for women.
Check availabilityBessho Onsen
Bessho Onsen Midoriya
別所温泉 緑屋
The inn has no shared bath at all, so it has no tattoo rule to publish. Each private bath is an indoor tub with an open-air tub beside it.
Check availabilityKashiwaya Honten
かしわや本店
Besides the private bath, four rooms and the main-building suite have an open-air bath of their own on natural hot-spring water, and two rooms an indoor one.
Check availabilityNanakusa no Yu
七草の湯
Two rooms, Asagiriso and Komachiso, have a free-flowing open-air bath on the sun deck, yours at any hour.
Check availabilityRyokan Hanaya
旅館 花屋
The inn’s FAQ says plainly that there’s no private bath in the building, which leaves the room baths as the only private option.
Check availabilityRyokan Nakamatsuya
旅館 中松屋
No tattoo rule appears on the inn’s Japanese or English pages.
Check availabilityDaisetsuzan and Furano
Choyo Resort Hotel
層雲峡温泉 朝陽リゾートホテル
The hotel’s FAQ lists the four private baths, each for two to four people.
Choyo Resort Hotel tattoo policy → · All Daisetsuzan and Furano →
Check availabilityHotel Taisetsu Onsen & Canyon Resort
ホテル大雪
The rule is on the hotel’s hot-spring page, which covers all three large baths.
Hotel Taisetsu Onsen & Canyon Resort tattoo policy → · All Daisetsuzan and Furano →
Check availabilityLa Vista Daisetsuzan
ラビスタ大雪山
The hotel’s FAQ gives the rule and names the private baths as the alternative.
La Vista Daisetsuzan tattoo policy → · All Daisetsuzan and Furano →
Check availabilityLa Vista Furano Hills
ラビスタ富良野ヒルズ
The refusal is printed on the hotel’s own bath page.
La Vista Furano Hills tattoo policy → · All Daisetsuzan and Furano →
Check availabilityMori no Ryotei Biei
白金温泉郷 森の旅亭 びえい
The inn’s guide page states that the room open-air baths run on the hot spring, the same as the large bath.
Mori no Ryotei Biei tattoo policy → · All Daisetsuzan and Furano →
Check availabilityOnyado Shikishimaso
御やど しきしま荘
The inn’s room list marks both suites as having a free-flowing half-open-air bath.
Onyado Shikishimaso tattoo policy → · All Daisetsuzan and Furano →
Check availabilityDogo Onsen
Bettei Oborozukiyo
別邸 朧月夜
Every room is a suite with its own open-air bath. The shared open-air bath, Dogo Ochaya, has no published tattoo rule, so keep to your own tub.
Check availabilityCHAHARU Hanare Dogo Yumekura
CHAHARU離れ 道後夢蔵
The annex has seven rooms and no shared bath, and the group's FAQ says its room baths are onsen. The parent hotel, Chaharu, refuses tattooed guests in its shared baths.
CHAHARU Hanare Dogo Yumekura tattoo policy → · All Dogo Onsen →
Check availabilityDogo Onsen Dogo Miyu
道後温泉 道後御湯
The FAQ refuses tattooed guests the top-floor view bath and, in the same sentence, tells them to use the open-air bath in their room. Every room has one.
Check availabilityDogo Onsen Yachiyo
道後温泉 八千代
Every room has an open-air bath of free-flowing Dogo water. The large bath has no published tattoo rule, so keep to your own tub.
Check availabilityDogo Prince Hotel
道後プリンスホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Sign up for Yuraku, four private open-air baths, when you arrive.
Check availabilityHoshinooka Onsen
星乃岡温泉
Book the annex. Spa Hoshinooka rents seventeen private rooms for up to five people, and nothing on tattoos is published for the Senyukan big bath.
Hotel Kowakuen Haruka
道後温泉 ホテル古湧園 遥
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its top-floor bath. Book the step-free private bath ahead instead.
Check availabilityHotel Tsubakikan
道後温泉 ホテル椿館
The FAQ closes the large bath to tattooed guests and leaves the room bath. Only the Iwaburo and Hinoki special rooms have tubs of Dogo water, and the other rooms have an ordinary unit bath.
Check availabilityKoto-no-niwa
琴の庭
There's no shared bath. All ten rooms have their own bath of free-flowing spring water, usable around the clock.
Check availabilityOkudogo Ichiyunomori
奥道後 壱湯の守
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule, so don't count on the shared bath. Book one of the five private open-air baths instead.
Check availabilitySoratomori
東道後のそらともり
The FAQ refuses any tattoo, however small, in the big bath and the body-care rooms, and says the private baths and overnight rooms are open to you. Staff patrol the big bath.
Yamanote Bettei Hagakure
山の手別邸 葉隠れ
Seven detached buildings, each with its own cypress bath of Dogo water, and no shared bath on the property.
Check availabilityGamagori
Himeyado Hanakazashi
姫宿 花かざし
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its two large baths and says they cannot be reserved for private use. A handful of rooms have an open-air bath of their own, and those are the ones for a tattooed guest: the two Japanese-modern suites, the panorama Japanese room, the Japanese-style suite and the Japanese-style VIP room.
Check availabilityHotel Takeshima
ホテル竹島
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its large baths, and its FAQ says it has no private bath to reserve. What it does have is a set of guest rooms with their own open-air bath of hot spring water, so a tattooed guest can book one of those and bathe in the room.
Check availabilityHotel Tokaien
ホテル東海園
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its large baths. It has three private open-air baths, reserved by phone for 50 minutes at 4,400 yen, and guest rooms with an open-air bath of their own. The private baths are kept for staying guests except on certain days.
Check availabilityKaze no Tani no Iori
風の谷の庵
The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and the bathing here does not depend on one: all nine rooms are detached houses with their own open-air bath of hot spring water. You bathe on your own terrace at any hour. The one shared facility, a bedrock bath and jacuzzi house, is rented whole to one party at a time.
Check availabilityNishiura Grand Hotel Kikkei
西浦グランドホテル 吉慶
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths and has no private bath to reserve. Its answer for a tattooed guest is a room with a bath of its own: the special room Wan on the 6th floor has a half-open-air bath, and the premium ocean-view Japanese rooms have an open-air bath on the terrace.
Nishiura Grand Hotel Kikkei tattoo policy → · All Gamagori →
Check availabilityShunkei Roman Gimpaso
旬景浪漫 銀波荘
The inn answers the tattoo question by pointing to its private open-air baths: there, it says, guests with tattoos can bathe without a second thought. It gives no permission for the large baths, so plan on the private baths or a room with its own tub. The private baths are on the top floor, 50 minutes at 1,100 yen a person for staying guests.
Check availabilitySunhills Mikawawan
サンヒルズ三河湾
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath. Three of its 21 rooms are suites with a view bath of hot spring water inside the room, and those are the rooms a tattooed guest should book. Guests in the other rooms have the large bath only.
Check availabilityTenku Kaiyu no Yado Suehiro
天空海遊の宿 末広
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. It has two private open-air baths, Sora and Umi, reserved for 45 minutes at 2,500 yen a room, and guest rooms with an open-air bath of their own. Day visitors can book a private bath too, on top of the day-use fee.
Tenku Kaiyu no Yado Suehiro tattoo policy → · All Gamagori →
Check availabilityWa no Resort Hazu
和のリゾート はづ
The inn says guests with tattoos may use the private bath only, which closes its shared open-air bath and large bath to them. The private open-air bath is reserved for 45 minutes at 2,750 yen, and day visitors can book it as well. Three guest rooms have an open-air bath of their own on a deck above the sea.
Check availabilityGero Onsen
Bosenkan
望川館
Bosenkan’s FAQ refuses tattoos in the large bath, fashion and religious ones included. Book the private open-air bath, or a room with an open-air tub of its own.
Check availabilityGero Kanko Hotel Honkan
湯あそびの宿 下呂観光ホテル本館
No tattoo rule is published. Book one of the seven private baths, or one of the twelve rooms with an open-air bath of its own.
Check availabilityGero Onsen Fugaku
下呂温泉 冨岳
Tattoos are refused in the large baths and the view open-air bath, seals included. Book one of the two private baths, which aren’t in that rule.
Check availabilityGero Onsen Ogawaya
小川屋
The public-bath page refuses tattoos in the large baths and says nothing about the nine private baths. Book one of those, since that silence isn’t permission for the large baths.
Check availabilityGero Onsen Yamagataya
下呂温泉山形屋
Tattoos are refused in the large bath and its open-air bath, seals included. The rule doesn’t say whether the seven private open-air baths count, so book a room with its own bath.
Check availabilityHotel Kusakabe Armeria
下呂温泉ホテルくさかべアルメリア
The bath page refuses tattoos, seals included, in both bath halls and for day visitors. Book a suite with its own open-air bath.
Check availabilityKaiseki-yado Suihoen
懐石宿 水鳳園
Suihoen publishes no tattoo rule. Eight of its fifteen rooms have a bath of their own, and it rents a private bath too.
Check availabilityKawakamiya Kasuitei
川上屋花水亭
No tattoo rule is published. Book the private bath, Hi-no-yusen, or a suite with its own cypress and granite tubs.
Check availabilityKisoya
木曽屋
No tattoo rule is published. The rooms with a private open-air tub are usable around the clock, but the inn says the room water isn’t hot spring water.
Note: The room baths are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The inn says so itself.
Check availabilityKissenkan Chikusuitei
吉泉館竹翠亭
No tattoo rule is published. Book the all-cypress private bath at check-in; the FAQ says it runs on piped Gero water.
Check availabilityOnsen Business Hotel Fukiya
温泉ビジネスホテル 富喜屋
There’s no shared bath. The hotel’s two baths are both private, open around the clock and filled with undiluted Gero water.
Onsen Business Hotel Fukiya tattoo policy → · All Gero Onsen →
Check availabilitySasara
紗々羅
The bath page refuses tattoos under each shared bath. It says nothing about the two private open-air baths or the rooms with their own tub.
Check availabilitySeijaku Miyako
こころをなでる静寂 みやこ
No tattoo rule is published. Four cottages and nine main-building suites have their own open-air bath, and there are three private open-air baths as well.
Check availabilityYunoshimakan
湯之島館
Yunoshimakan publishes no tattoo rule. Book an annex room with its own spring-fed bath; the heritage rooms in the main building have none.
Check availabilityGinzan Onsen
CLANUOVA
クラノバ
The annex has no bath of its own, and the inn asks its guests to use the main building’s baths next door.
Check availabilityFujiya
藤屋
The inn has no men’s or women’s bath. It describes all five of its baths as private spaces.
Check availabilityGinzanso
仙峡の宿 銀山荘
The hotel’s shared baths are separate men’s and women’s baths.
Check availabilityHatago Itoya
旅籠いとうや
The inn has no men’s or women’s bath, and it takes only four groups a night.
Check availabilityKozankaku
古山閣
Guests of the modern annex next door, CLANUOVA, use the same two private baths, since the annex has no bath of its own.
Check availabilityNagasawa Heihachi
旅館 永澤平八
The inn says staying guests can use the private semi-open-air bath freely during their stay.
Check availabilityHakodate and Yunokawa
Bourou Noguchi Hakodate
望楼NOGUCHI函館
Both room tubs carry natural hot-spring water, the same salty spring as the shared bath.
Bourou Noguchi Hakodate tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityHAKODATE Kaikyo no Kaze
HAKODATE海峡の風
Neither the hotel’s own two large baths nor its FAQ carry a tattoo rule.
HAKODATE Kaikyo no Kaze tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityHakodate Yunokawa Onsen Umi to Hi, Hewitt Resort
函館湯の川温泉 海と灯／ヒューイットリゾート
The bath rules and the hotel’s FAQ both say guests with tattoos may not use the shared bath.
Hakodate Yunokawa Onsen Umi to Hi, Hewitt Resort tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityHanabishi Hotel
花びしホテル
The hotel’s FAQ states that it has no private bath (kazoku-buro) to rent.
Hanabishi Hotel tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityKKR Hakodate
KKRはこだて
The lodge is run by the federation of national civil servants’ mutual aid associations, and anyone can stay or bathe.
Check availabilityKappo Ryokan Wakamatsu
割烹旅館 若松
The maisonettes are the only rooms at Wakamatsu with a view bath.
Kappo Ryokan Wakamatsu tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityLa Vista Hakodate Bay ANNEX
ラビスタ函館ベイANNEX
The refusal and the three private baths are both set out in the hotel’s FAQ.
La Vista Hakodate Bay ANNEX tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityYumoto Takubokutei
湯元 啄木亭
The private baths opened in April 2016, rebuilt from what was the hotel’s mid-sized bath.
Yumoto Takubokutei tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityYunohama Hotel
湯の浜ホテル
Tokaitei also has Western-style rooms with only an ordinary unit bath, so choose the Japanese-style type.
Yunohama Hotel tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityYunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei
湯の川プリンスホテル渚亭
The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for its shared baths and has no private bath to rent.
Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei tattoo policy → · All Hakodate and Yunokawa →
Check availabilityHakone
Bettei Koyoi
別邸今宵
Rooms with an open-air bath of their own, and the hotel is plain that the water in those is heated, not the spring. The large bath, with an open-air section, is on the spring itself. In the room nothing needs covering.
Check availabilityFuji-Hakone Guest House
Private baths, locked from the inside, and the guesthouse says on its English hot spring page that a tattoo is nothing to worry about in them, because they're private.
Check availabilityGora Tsuki no Izumi
強羅 月の泉
The inn's site publishes no tattoo rule. Don't take that as permission for the indoor baths. The room bath is yours for the stay.
Check availabilityHakone Ginyu
箱根吟遊
Every room has a private open-air onsen bath on its terrace, with no restriction there. The ryokan publishes no tattoo rule for the two large baths, so treat those as unanswered.
Check availabilityHakone Gora Ten
HAKONE GORA 天TEN
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. Its two private baths, Nagi and Sakaki, are booked ahead for a fee, so a tattooed guest can bathe without sharing the water.
Check availabilityHakone Kogen Hotel
A reservable private bath, Myojo. Nothing on the hotel's site states a tattoo rule for the communal bath either way, so plan on the private bath.
Check availabilityHakone Kowakien Mikawaya Ryokan
箱根小涸園 三河屋旅館
The ryokan's own onsen page describes the private bath. The shared baths, separated by gender, publish no tattoo policy.
Hakone Kowakien Mikawaya Ryokan tattoo policy → · All Hakone →
Check availabilityHotel Green Plaza Hakone
The refusal is on the hotel's hot spring page and its day-use page. The Asian Twin's open-air bath is heated water, not the spring, so pick another room type.
Check availabilityHotel Indigo Hakone Gora (by IHG)
The hotel's own pitch is that every room's bath is filled from the Miyagino spring. The shared Thermal Spring is taken in a swimsuit, and no tattoo rule for it appears on the hotel's pages.
Hotel Indigo Hakone Gora (by IHG) tattoo policy → · All Hakone →
Check availabilityHotel Okada
ホテルおかだ
The hotel's own site publishes no tattoo policy for its large shared bath.
Check availabilityRyokan Kiritani Hakoneso
桐谷箱根荘
The shared baths publish no tattoo policy. The ryokan's own onsen page describes the private bath.
Check availabilityTsuki no Yado Sara
月の宿 紗ら
The ryokan’s FAQ refuses tattoos in the large bath, Wagetsu, and points to the private baths and the baths in the rooms. The sauna is open to a tattoo that a seal can hide, and the front desk hands the seals out.
Check availabilityYaeikan
彥栄館
The ryokan's own site publishes no tattoo policy for its large shared bath.
Check availabilityYudokoro Suiun / Setsugekka Bettei Suiun
雪月花別邸 翠雲
Almost every room also has an open-air bath of its own.
Yudokoro Suiun / Setsugekka Bettei Suiun tattoo policy → · All Hakone →
Check availabilityYushintei
遗心亭
The ryokan's own site says every one of its baths can also be booked privately.
Check availabilitymysa hakone
One group per day, whole property. The villa publishes no tattoo policy and doesn't need one. The house and its tent sauna are yours alone for the stay. There's no hot spring on the property.
Check availabilityHakuba
Hakuba Highland Hotel
白馬姫川温泉 白馬ハイランドホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for its guest bath, Warabidaira-no-Yu, or for Tenjin-no-Yu, which day visitors use too.
Check availabilityHakuba Mominoki Hotel
白馬樅の木ホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for Shobei-no-Yu, its shared bath, in Japanese or in English.
Check availabilityHotel Sierra Resort Hakuba
ホテルシェラリゾート白馬
The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for Kominka-no-Yu, its shared bath, which day visitors also use.
Check availabilityTraumerei
オーベルジュ トロイメライ
The auberge publishes no tattoo policy, and there’s no bathing tax to pay.
Note: Nothing here is hot spring water. The private baths are ordinary heated water, and the auberge’s FAQ says so.
Check availabilityVive Boutique Hotel & Spa (VIVE Hakuba)
The hotel has no shared bath, and its spa takes every booking online and in advance.
Vive Boutique Hotel & Spa (VIVE Hakuba) tattoo policy → · All Hakuba →
Check availabilityYamanosato Hotel Hakuba Hifumi
山の郷ホテル 白馬ひふみ
The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for its two large baths.
Yamanosato Hotel Hakuba Hifumi tattoo policy → · All Hakuba →
Check availabilityHanamaki Onsen
Airinkan
結びの宿 愛隣館
Chappun is open to overnight guests every day and to day visitors on weekdays.
Check availabilityFujisan Ryokan Bettei Kokoronotoki Jusangatsu
藤三旅館・別邸 鉛温泉 心の刻 十三月
The suite baths run straight from the Namari spring, with no heating, no added water and no recirculation.
Fujisan Ryokan Bettei Kokoronotoki Jusangatsu tattoo policy → · All Hanamaki Onsen →
Check availabilityHanamaki Onsen Kashoen
佳松園
Kashoen is one of the four hotels named in the Hanamaki Onsen group’s facility rules, revised May 16, 2026, which set the large-bath tattoo rule.
Hanamaki Onsen Kashoen tattoo policy → · All Hanamaki Onsen →
Check availabilityHotel Hanamaki
ホテル花巻
The rule is in the facility rules shared by all four Hanamaki Onsen group hotels, revised May 16, 2026, and it covers the large baths.
Check availabilityHotel Koyokan
ホテル紅葉館
The rule, in the facility rules shared by all four Hanamaki Onsen group hotels (revised May 16, 2026), asks tattooed guests to stay out of the large baths unless staff judge the tattoo won’t intimidate other guests.
Check availabilityHotel Senshukaku
ホテル千秋閣
The large-bath rule is in the facility rules shared by all four Hanamaki Onsen group hotels, revised May 16, 2026.
Check availabilityHotel Shidotaira
湯の杜 ホテル志戸平
The hotel calls the three rental baths fully private, each with its view to yourself.
Check availabilityNamari Onsen Fujisan Ryokan
鉛温泉 藤三旅館
The inn's bath page sets Gin-no-yu aside as a private bath. Day visitors get it from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Overnight guests get it from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., in 50-minute slots for six groups a day.
Namari Onsen Fujisan Ryokan tattoo policy → · All Hanamaki Onsen →
Check availabilityYamanokami Onsen Yukaen
山の神温泉 優香苑
The private bath is sized for two or three people, with its own washing area, shower and vanity.
Yamanokami Onsen Yukaen tattoo policy → · All Hanamaki Onsen →
Check availabilityYusen Shidate
游泉 志だて
Every room bath runs free-flowing spring water around the clock.
Check availabilityHigashi-Izu
Bousui
望水
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Every room is given one free 50-minute session in a private gazebo, a seafront pavilion with its own open-air bath, and there are four of them. Two larger premium gazebos can be reserved ahead for 90 minutes at ¥13,200. That is a full private bath for any guest; ask the inn before using the shared halls.
Check availabilityFutari no Yuyado Yubana Mankai
ふたりの湯宿 湯花満開
The inn answers the tattoo question in its FAQ with a yes. It has no men’s or women’s hall at all, only six private baths that lock from the inside, so you never share water with another guest. All six are free and need no reservation.
Futari no Yuyado Yubana Mankai tattoo policy → · All Higashi-Izu →
Check availabilityHotel Shinayoshi
ホテル志なよし
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private view baths, Taiheiyo and Oshima, each a single tub facing the open sea, available from 3 to 11:30 p.m. Use those; the shared baths are unconfirmed for tattooed guests.
Check availabilityInatori Akao Hotel
稲取赤尾ホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It does give every staying guest seven private baths at no charge, two of them open-air, all fed with free-flowing water from its own spring and used whenever one is free. Many rooms have a spring-fed tub as well. Treat the two large shared baths and the pool area as unconfirmed and ask first.
Check availabilityInatori Ginsuiso
稲取銀水荘
The hotel refuses guests with tattoos in its large bath, open-air bath and pool, and adds that covering up does not change that: it asks guests not to use them wearing tattoo-style paint or stickers either. It has no private or family bath. The only way to bathe here with a tattoo is to book one of the suites with an open-air bath of its own, on the executive floors or among the luxury suites.
Check availabilityInatori Tokai Hotel Yuen
稲取東海ホテル湯苑
The hotel firmly refuses bathers with tattoos; the sentence stands in its day-use bathing notice. The dependable way to bathe here is a room with its own tub, and the hotel has several: open-air bath twins on the upper floors, a junior suite, and half-open-air rooms it says are 100 percent free-flowing. It also rents two private open-air baths, but its refusal does not say they are exempt, so ask before booking one.
Inatori Tokai Hotel Yuen tattoo policy → · All Higashi-Izu →
Check availabilityInatoriso
海一望 絶景の宿 いなとり荘
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It rents two private open-air baths on its top floor, Mikazuki and Mangetsu, at ¥2,200 for 50 minutes, and sells twelve rooms with a free-flowing spring tub of their own. Either lets a tattooed guest bathe with the sea in front and nobody else in the water. Ask before using the shared baths.
Check availabilityIsaribi
いさり火
The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and its layout makes one unnecessary. All 13 rooms have their own open-air bath, usable around the clock, and even the large bath and open-air bath downstairs are handed over for private use, without a reservation, from 3 p.m. to 11 the next morning. A guest here never has to share a tub.
Check availabilityItoen Hotel Atagawa
伊東園ホテル熱川
The hotel’s hot spring page refuses bathers with tattoos, and the Itoen chain’s FAQ on the same site says the large bath and open-air bath are closed to them as a rule and to use the bath in the room or a private bath instead. Here the private bath is an open-air one with two ceramic tubs and a sea view, ¥2,200 for 50 minutes, booked on the day. The indoor pool also refuses tattoos.
Check availabilityItoen Hotel Inatori
伊東園ホテル稲取
The hotel’s hot spring page refuses bathers with tattoos, and the Itoen chain’s FAQ on the same site tells tattooed guests to use a private bath or the bath in the room instead of the large bath and open-air bath. The private bath here is a small open-air stone tub among the trees, ¥1,650 for 50 minutes, reserved at the front desk on the day.
Check availabilityIzu Hotel Resort & Spa
伊豆ホテル リゾート&スパ
The hotel’s FAQ keeps tattoos out of the large bath and tells guests to use the spring bath in their room. All 26 rooms have a hot spring open-air bath on their own terrace, facing the Pacific and the Izu islands, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared bath at all. The shared bath is a single deep open-air pool for each sex; ask the hotel before using it.
Check availabilityIzu Retreat Atagawa Suiko by Onko Chishin
伊豆リトリート 熱川粋光 by 温故知新
There is no shared bath of any kind here. Each of the 16 rooms has its own open-air tub of free-flowing spring water, and the hotel’s FAQ says guests with tattoos may use the room baths freely. It asks only that tattoos stay out of other guests’ sight in the public areas.
Izu Retreat Atagawa Suiko by Onko Chishin tattoo policy → · All Higashi-Izu →
Check availabilityKatasekan Hiina
片瀬館 ひいな
The inn publishes no tattoo rule, so nothing here is a promise about the shared baths. What it does publish is seven private baths that cost nothing and need no reservation: six open-air ones facing the sea and one indoor family bath. You go in when the door is unlocked and lock it behind you. Eleven rooms also have their own open-air tub.
Check availabilityKissho CAREN
吉祥CAREN
The inn’s own pages carry no tattoo rule and list no reservable private bath. Its sister inn down the road, Tsuruya Kisshotei, refuses tattoos in shared baths, so do not expect the shared baths here to be open to you. What remains is certain: rooms with a view bath in granite and cypress, and rooms with a cypress open-air tub on a deck, all fed from the inn’s own spring.
Check availabilityMibunoshou
水生の庄
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Every guest room has an open-air bath of natural spring water, in cypress, rock, ceramic or stone depending on the room, with the Pacific or the forest in front. That makes the shared bath optional.
Check availabilityMiharuya
伊豆熱川 自家源泉 おもてなしの宿 みはるや
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private baths that cost nothing: an open-air rock bath, reserved for private use from 7:40 p.m. until 7 the next morning in 35-minute turns, and a detached bath called Hanare, 50 minutes by reservation. Several of its ten rooms also have a cypress half-open-air tub fed from the inn’s own spring.
Check availabilityOku-Atagawa Narashino-no-Sato Gyokusui
奥熱川 奈良偲の里 玉翠
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Each of its 13 rooms has its own free-flowing spring bath, half-open-air or fully open-air, and every room also gets 40 free minutes in the private open-air rock bath in the bamboo grove. A tattooed guest can bathe well here without entering the shared halls; ask the inn before using those.
Oku-Atagawa Narashino-no-Sato Gyokusui tattoo policy → · All Higashi-Izu →
Check availabilityRyugu no Tsukai
自家源泉の宿 竜宮の使い
Asked whether a tattooed guest can use the large bath, the hotel’s FAQ apologizes and says it refuses. The next line says a palm-size tattoo cover is on sale at the front desk for anyone who wants one, without saying in so many words that a covered tattoo will be let in. Until the desk confirms that, count on the four private baths, ¥1,650 for 40 minutes, or one of the two family rooms with a spring-fed bathroom.
Check availabilitySenoumi
石花海
The inn asks bathers with tattoos to stay out of its shared baths; the English line on the same notice names the public baths. That leaves the private bath, a half-open-air tub on the mountain side at ¥3,300 for 50 minutes by reservation, and the rooms with their own open-air bath, which the inn says are 100 percent free-flowing.
Check availabilitySenoumi Bettei Umiusagi
石花海別邸 海うさぎ
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Its bathing is built around four private open-air baths on the seventh floor, named for the four seasons, free and used without a reservation whenever one is empty. A few rooms also have an open-air tub of their own. The big shared baths belong to the main house, Senoumi, which asks tattooed guests to stay out of them.
Check availabilityShinyu no Yado SAZANA
心湯の宿 SAZANA
The inn’s FAQ keeps tattoos out of the large bath and points to its private baths, which are paid and booked ahead. It has two private baths, a view bath at ¥1,000 plus tax for 40 minutes and an open-air bath with an indoor tub attached, and three room types with a spring-fed open-air tub. Guests may also use the big baths of the sister hotel Yuen 30 seconds away, but Yuen firmly refuses bathers with tattoos, so keep to the private baths and the room tubs.
Check availabilityTaberu Oyado Hamanoyu
食べるお宿 浜の湯
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Most of its room types have an open-air bath of their own, more than twenty of them, and it rents out three private bath suites by the hour, two with saunas. Those cover a tattooed guest fully; ask the inn about the rooftop shared baths before using them.
Check availabilityTakami Hotel
たかみホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. Seven of its 14 rooms have their own open-air bath of free-flowing spring water. For the other rooms, the big view open-air bath turns private from 8 p.m. to midnight, free, in 30-minute turns arranged at check-in. Outside those hours that bath is mixed, with towels allowed, so it is not a place to count on.
Check availabilityTsuruya Kisshotei
つるや吉祥亭
The inn refuses any tattoo in its shared baths, down to a single small fashion piece, and says a bather seen with one will be asked to leave. The same FAQ answer points tattooed guests to the private baths instead: book one and use it. There are four, at ¥2,000 for 45 minutes. The inn also asks you to keep tattoos covered around the building, with a jacket if needed.
Check availabilityHigashiyama Onsen
Hanare Matsushimakaku
はなれ 松島閣
The suites belong to Shosuke no Yado Takinoyu, whose rule asks guests with tattoos not to bathe in the inn’s baths.
Hanare Matsushimakaku tattoo policy → · All Higashiyama Onsen →
Check availabilityHigashiyama Park Hotel Shinpugetsu
東山パークホテル新風月
The rule is one line in the notes on the hotel’s hot-spring page.
Higashiyama Park Hotel Shinpugetsu tattoo policy → · All Higashiyama Onsen →
Check availabilityIrori no Yado Ashina
いろりの宿 芦名
The inn publishes no tattoo policy, so plan your bath for your room’s private time.
Irori no Yado Ashina tattoo policy → · All Higashiyama Onsen →
Check availabilityKonjakutei
会津東山温泉 今昔亭
The rule is on the inn’s hot-spring page, in the same words its sister inn Harataki uses.
Check availabilityKutsurogijuku Chiyotaki
会津東山温泉 くつろぎ宿 千代滝
The rule is on the group’s bath-hopping page, which names Chiyotaki and its sister inn Shintaki.
Kutsurogijuku Chiyotaki tattoo policy → · All Higashiyama Onsen →
Check availabilityKutsurogijuku Shintaki
会津東山温泉 くつろぎ宿 新滝
The rule is on the group’s bath-hopping page, and it covers both Shintaki and its sister inn Chiyotaki.
Kutsurogijuku Shintaki tattoo policy → · All Higashiyama Onsen →
Check availabilityMukaitaki
会津東山温泉 向瀧
The inn’s hot-spring page says the private baths cost nothing, take no reservations and have no time limit.
Check availabilityShosuke no Yado Takinoyu
庄助の宿 瀧の湯
The rule is in the inn’s notes for guests and in its FAQ, in Japanese and in English.
Shosuke no Yado Takinoyu tattoo policy → · All Higashiyama Onsen →
Check availabilityHiroshima area
Hiroshima Private Sauna LA·SPA
広島個室サウナ LA・SPA
There's one room, and you rent all of it. No tattoo rule is published, and none is needed, since nobody else is in the room.
Hiroshima Private Sauna LA·SPA tattoo policy → · All Hiroshima area →
Makoto no Hinoki-yu
湯来温泉湯元貸切露天風呂 誠の桧湯
The operator publishes no tattoo rule, and nobody else is in the water.
Hita and Amagase
Caffel Hinanosato
caffel ひなのさと
Hinanosato publishes no tattoo rule. Three of its room types have an open-air bath on the room's own veranda, so a tattooed guest can book one of those and bathe without using the shared baths.
Check availabilityHita Onsen Genseniya
日田温泉 源泉屋
Genseniya turns away tattooed bathers from its large baths and recommends its private baths instead. Its four private baths are rented by the 50 minutes for up to three adults, so a tattooed bather can soak in the same spring water there.
Hita Onsen Genseniya tattoo policy → · All Hita and Amagase →
Hotel and Restaurant Kizan Club
ホテル＆レストラン KIZAN倶楽部
Kizan Club publishes no tattoo rule. It has no shared bath: its two hot spring baths are taken in private by time slot, free for staying guests, so a tattooed guest bathes alone or with their own party.
Hotel and Restaurant Kizan Club tattoo policy → · All Hita and Amagase →
Check availabilityKotohira Onsen Yume Sansui
琴ひら温泉 ゆめ山水
Yume Sansui publishes no tattoo rule. It rents 16 family baths by the hour, so a tattooed bather can take one alone or with their own party instead of using the shared open-air baths.
Kotohira Onsen Yume Sansui tattoo policy → · All Hita and Amagase →
Mikuma Hotel
小京都の湯 みくまホテル
Mikuma Hotel publishes no tattoo rule. It has one private family bath with an indoor and an open-air tub, open 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. for a fee, and one special room on the ninth floor with its own hot spring bath; either keeps a tattooed guest out of the shared baths.
Check availabilityMomonoki Villa
桃の木別荘
Momonoki Villa publishes no tattoo rule. It rents each of its three cottages whole, and every cottage has its own bath of Amagase spring water, so there is no shared bath to face.
Check availabilityOgase Tennen-yu Senraku Onsen
おがせ天然湯 せんらく温泉
Senraku Onsen publishes no tattoo rule. It rents eight family baths by the 50 minutes, drained and refilled for every party, so a tattooed bather can soak alone instead of using the shared open-air baths.
Ogase Tennen-yu Senraku Onsen tattoo policy → · All Hita and Amagase →
Okuhita Onsen Umehibiki
奥日田温泉 うめひびき
Umehibiki publishes no tattoo rule. It keeps three private hot spring baths for staying guests, booked for 60 minutes at ¥2,200, and several room types have their own open-air and indoor bath, so a tattooed guest can stay without using the large baths.
Okuhita Onsen Umehibiki tattoo policy → · All Hita and Amagase →
Check availabilityRyokan & Sauna Yorozuya Hita
萬屋 よろづや
Yorozuya publishes no tattoo rule. It has no shared bath: each of its eight suites has its own sauna, cold plunge and hot spring tub, so a tattooed guest bathes in private for the whole stay.
Ryokan & Sauna Yorozuya Hita tattoo policy → · All Hita and Amagase →
Check availabilitySanso Tensui
山荘天水
Sanso Tensui publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests can use any of its five private baths for free, and the three special rooms and the open-air Japanese rooms have their own spring-fed tub, so a tattooed guest never has to use the shared baths.
Check availabilityUkiha Bekkan Shinshiyo
浮羽別館 新紫陽
Shinshiyo publishes no tattoo rule. Four room types have an open-air bath on their own deck, and the inn has a private open-air bath and a private hot spring room, Skyspot, that it sells to its staying guests, so a tattooed guest can avoid the shared baths.
Ukiha Bekkan Shinshiyo tattoo policy → · All Hita and Amagase →
Check availabilityUmenoyu
秘湯 うめ乃ゆ
Umenoyu publishes no tattoo rule. It has no shared bath at all: its 24 baths are family baths, each rented whole, so a tattooed bather soaks alone or with their own party.
Yamakisou
山樹荘
Yamakisou publishes no tattoo rule. It is a whole house rented to one group, and its open-air rock bath of flowing spring water comes with the house, so a tattooed guest bathes with no one else around.
Check availabilityHitoyoshi
Hitoyoshi Onsen Ayu no Sato
人吉温泉 あゆの里
Ayu no Sato publishes no tattoo rule, and it has no reservable private bath. The answer here is a Spa Suite: six suite types from 40 to 110 square meters each have an open-air bath on the balcony piped straight from the inn's own Ayuri source, usable from check-in to check-out.
Hitoyoshi Onsen Ayu no Sato tattoo policy → · All Hitoyoshi →
Check availabilityHitoyoshi Onsen Nabeya
人吉温泉 鍋屋
Nabeya publishes no tattoo rule. Its three suites and the semi-suites in the new building each have a spring bath of their own, open-air in the suites, and the bath floor also has a family bath, so a tattooed guest can bathe without the large bath.
Check availabilityHitoyoshi Onsen Shirasagiso
人吉温泉しらさぎ荘
Shirasagiso publishes no tattoo rule. The two detached rooms, Aoi and Wabisuke, have their own indoor spring bath usable at any hour, and the main building keeps two family baths, Manryo and Senryo, that guests use by arrangement with the staff, so there is a bath to yourself without the shared Shirasagi-no-yu.
Hitoyoshi Onsen Shirasagiso tattoo policy → · All Hitoyoshi →
Check availabilityHitoyoshi Ryokan
人吉旅館
Hitoyoshi Ryokan publishes no tattoo rule. It keeps two family baths that staying guests take free for about an hour whenever one is empty, with no booking, so a tattooed guest can bathe alone instead of using the two large baths.
Check availabilityHitoyoshi Shinjo Onsen family baths
人吉神城温泉 家族風呂
The operator publishes no tattoo rule. There is no shared bath here at all: the house is twelve private bath rooms rented by the hour, so a tattooed visitor bathes alone or with their own party.
Hitoyoshi Shinjo Onsen family baths tattoo policy → · All Hitoyoshi →
Hitoyoshi Shinjo no Yado
人吉神城の宿
Shinjo no Yado publishes no tattoo rule. There is no shared bath: every room has its own bath of source-flow hot spring water, open-air in two of the wings and indoor in the other three, and the family-bath house next door rents private rooms by the hour.
Check availabilityIchifuji Ryokan
人吉温泉 石野乃湯 一富士旅館
Ichifuji publishes no tattoo rule. It has no shared bath: each room has its own indoor bath and open-air bath of natural hot spring water, so a tattooed guest bathes in private for the whole stay.
Check availabilityRyokan Suiranro
旅館 翠嵐楼
Suiranro publishes no tattoo rule. Its two Midori-no-yu open-air baths, Kumo and Sora, are private-use from 3 p.m. to midnight, and the top four room types have their own semi-open-air spring bath, so a tattooed guest has a bath to themselves without entering the large baths.
Check availabilityYoshino Ryokan
人吉温泉 芳野旅館
Yoshino publishes no tattoo rule. It has four private baths, the three small open-air Hanare-no-yu tubs in the garden and Yamasemi-no-yu in the main building with an indoor and an open-air tub, and one room, Kinmokusei, has its own spring bath, so a tattooed guest can bathe alone without the men's and women's large baths.
Check availabilityIbusuki Onsen
Bettei Amafuru Oka
別邸 天降る丘
The view bath, the sand bath and the hot-spring pool are shared, with no rule on tattoos.
Check availabilityGinsyo
夫婦露天風呂の宿 吟松
The ryokan says nothing about tattoos for its two shared baths, the ninth-floor sky bath and the second-floor large bath.
Check availabilityHananoyu
癒しの温泉 はなのゆ
There’s no communal bath anywhere on the site.
Hotel Shougetu
指宿温泉 ホテル翔月
The large bath, its open-air bath and the sauna are shared, and the hotel says nothing about tattoos for them.
Check availabilityIbusuki Hakusuikan
指宿白水館
No rule appears on the hotel’s site or in its terms of stay, and there’s no private bath, so every other bath is shared.
Check availabilityIbusuki Phoenix Hotel
指宿フェニックスホテル
The cave-style open-air bath, the large bath and the indoor sand bath are shared, and the hotel says nothing about tattoos for them.
Check availabilityIbusuki Seaside Hotel
指宿シーサイドホテル
The sand bath and the view bath are shared, and the hotel says nothing about tattoos for either.
Check availabilityIbusuki Syusuien
いぶすき秀水園
The large bath, its open-air section and the sauna are shared, and the ryokan says nothing about tattoos for them.
Check availabilityKoran no Yu Kinkouro
こらんの湯 錦江楼
The hotel publishes nothing about tattoos for the fifth-floor view bath, or for the open-air bath once it turns shared at 7 p.m.
Check availabilityKyukamura Ibusuki
休暇村指宿
The large bath and the sand bath are shared, and the lodge says nothing about tattoos for either.
Check availabilityNonoka Family Onsen
家族温泉 野の香
Nonoka has no shared bath and publishes no tattoo rule.
Ryokan Kawakyu
昔ながらの小さな宿 川久
The inn publishes no tattoo policy.
Check availabilityYurian
温泉水プール&夫婦露天風呂の離れ宿 悠離庵
Every room is a detached cottage or villa on a wooded hillside, and a buggy takes you from the front desk to your door.
Check availabilityIizaka and Tsuchiyu
Aoba Ryokan
青葉旅館
Aoba publishes no tattoo rule. Its answer is structural: all three of its baths, two indoor and one open-air, lock from the inside, so a party can bathe with nobody else in the room. Three special rooms also carry their own bath of source-flowing spring water.
Check availabilityGensen Yuan New Ogiya
源泉湯庵 ニュー扇屋
New Ogiya publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests can use three family baths free, with no booking, whenever one is empty, and two private open-air baths cost ¥2,750 for 45 minutes by reservation. Some Japanese rooms also have their own tub of the inn's spring.
Gensen Yuan New Ogiya tattoo policy → · All Iizaka and Tsuchiyu →
Check availabilityHarumiya Ryokan
はるみや旅館
Harumiya publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its ten rooms has its own source-flowing tub, and any of its four baths can be locked from the inside whenever it is free, so a tattooed guest never has to share a bath.
Check availabilityHotel Mukaitaki
ホテル向瀧
Mukaitaki publishes no tattoo rule. All nine of its rooms have their own open-air tub of source-flowing hot spring water facing the river, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the room and skip the shared baths.
Check availabilityKeien Hananose
渓苑 花の瀬
Hananose publishes no tattoo rule. Its family bath, an open-air tub on a balcony over the gorge, can be rented for an hour by one family or group for ¥2,200, so a party can bathe without sharing.
Check availabilityKikuya Ryokan
喜久屋旅館
Kikuya publishes no tattoo rule. Any staying guest can have one of its two open-air baths to themselves for 30 minutes at no charge, with the time set at the front desk on the day. Outside those slots the open-air baths are shared, men's and women's.
Check availabilityKotaki Onsen
山峡のいで湯 小滝温泉
Kotaki publishes no tattoo rule. Ten of its rooms have a ceramic open-air tub of source-flowing water on the balcony, and two rooftop open-air baths are kept for private use, so a tattooed guest can bathe without sharing.
Check availabilityMioto no Yado Sansuiso
水織音の宿 山水荘
Sansuiso publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. It rents four private baths by the hour, booked from the room after check-in, and the rooms of its Shisuitei wing each have their own source-fed tub, so a tattooed guest can bathe without sharing.
Mioto no Yado Sansuiso tattoo policy → · All Iizaka and Tsuchiyu →
Check availabilityOkina Ryokan
おきな旅館
Okina publishes no tattoo rule. It has one cypress private bath, free and used without booking whenever it is empty, so a party can bathe alone in the inn's own source water.
Check availabilityOyado Kawasemi
御宿かわせみ
Kawasemi publishes no tattoo rule, and it has no private bath to rent. Six of its twelve rooms, all on the ground floor, have their own open-air bath of Iizaka spring water, so guests in those rooms can bathe without using the shared baths.
Check availabilityShinmatsuba Ryokan
新松葉旅館
Shinmatsuba publishes no tattoo rule. Its marble family bath locks from inside and is free around the clock, and its open-air bath above a waterfall can also be taken privately for about 40 minutes outside the winter months.
Shinmatsuba Ryokan tattoo policy → · All Iizaka and Tsuchiyu →
Check availabilityTakumi no Kokoro Yoshikawaya
匠のこころ 吉川屋
Yoshikawaya publishes no tattoo rule. It rents a private bath, Yuno, with an indoor tub and an open-air tub, for 45 minutes at ¥2,750 per group, booked at the front desk. Five guest rooms also have their own open-air bath of source-flowing spring water.
Takumi no Kokoro Yoshikawaya tattoo policy → · All Iizaka and Tsuchiyu →
Check availabilityTsuchiyu Bettei Satonoyu
土湯別邸 里の湯
Satonoyu publishes no tattoo rule, and it needs none: every bath on site is taken by one party at a time, booked after arrival, and each of the nine rooms has its own tub of source water. A tattooed guest never shares a bath here.
Tsuchiyu Bettei Satonoyu tattoo policy → · All Iizaka and Tsuchiyu →
Check availabilityTsuchiyu Onsen Public Bath Nakanoyu
土湯温泉公衆浴場 中之湯
Nakanoyu publishes no tattoo rule. It rents four private baths for 50 minutes on top of the admission ticket, so a tattooed bather can have one alone.
Tsuchiyu Onsen Public Bath Nakanoyu tattoo policy → · All Iizaka and Tsuchiyu →
Yumori Onsen Hostel
Yumori calls its hot spring tattoo-friendly, and its day-trip page says how that works: a guest with tattoos books one of the four private baths and bathes alone. The welcome is worded around the private baths, so book one rather than counting on the large shared bath.
Yumori Onsen Hostel tattoo policy → · All Iizaka and Tsuchiyu →
Check availabilityImabari and the Shimanami islands
Azumi Setoda
アズミ セトダ
The house's own pages give every room a hinoki bath. Its FAQ says guests with small fashion tattoos, such as one-point tattoos, are welcome at yubune, the bathhouse across the street.
Note: Not a hot spring: the cypress tubs in the rooms are ordinary heated water, and the house makes no spring claim.
Azumi Setoda tattoo policy → · All Imabari and the Shimanami islands →
Check availabilityKadoya Besso
鈍川温泉 カドヤ別荘
Nothing is published about tattoos for the two shared baths. The inn's own pages describe the private bath.
Kadoya Besso tattoo policy → · All Imabari and the Shimanami islands →
Check availabilityIsawa Onsen
Chateraise Hotel Ryokan Fujinoya
シャトレーゼホテル 旅館 富士野屋
Fujinoya publishes no tattoo rule of its own. Its sister, Chateraise Hotel Isawa, says in its FAQ that tattooed guests may not use the hot springs, so ask when you book.
Chateraise Hotel Ryokan Fujinoya tattoo policy → · All Isawa Onsen →
Check availabilityHanayagi no Sho Keizan
華やぎの章 慶山
The inn's own hot-spring page refuses tattoos in the large baths and open-air baths.
Check availabilityHotel Fuji
ホテル ふじ
The notices on the hotel's own hot-spring page refuse tattooed bathers and point them to the paid private view baths or the bath in the room.
Check availabilityHotel Hatta
美と健康と癒しの宿 ホテル八田
Hotel Hatta publishes no tattoo rule. Its FAQ says the room baths are fed from the spring like the shared ones.
Check availabilityHotel Sekifu
ホテル 石風
Sekifu says nothing about tattoos. Its hot-spring and rooms pages describe each room's bath.
Check availabilityHotel Sekitei
ホテル 石庭
Sekitei says nothing about tattoos.
Check availabilityIsawa Meitokan Itoyanagi
石和名湯館 糸柳
The inn's notices for its foot-bath terrace and for day bathers refuse tattooed bathers, with no exception.
Isawa Meitokan Itoyanagi tattoo policy → · All Isawa Onsen →
Check availabilityIsawa Onsen Ryokan Kisen
石和温泉 旅館 喜仙
Kisen publishes nothing on tattoos. Its onsen page describes and prices the private bath.
Isawa Onsen Ryokan Kisen tattoo policy → · All Isawa Onsen →
Check availabilityIsawa Tokiwa Hotel
石和常磐ホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. Its spa page describes the private bath.
Check availabilityItoyanagi Koyado Yuwa
糸柳こやど ゆわ
The inn's day-bathing notice turns tattooed bathers away from the large baths.
Check availabilityMeiseki no Yado Kagetsu
銘石の宿 かげつ
Kagetsu publishes no tattoo rule. Its rooms page says the bath in every Japanese-style room is filled with hot-spring water.
Check availabilityMeitei no Yado Hotel Koshien
銘庭の宿 ホテル甲子園
No tattoo rule is published. The inn's own pages list each room's bath and the private baths.
Meitei no Yado Hotel Koshien tattoo policy → · All Isawa Onsen →
Check availabilityNagomi-no-yu, Isawa Fureai Center
いさわふれあいセンター なごみの湯
Neither the city nor the council that runs it publishes a tattoo rule for the large bath. The private bath is booked by the room.
Nagomi-no-yu, Isawa Fureai Center tattoo policy → · All Isawa Onsen →
Wajoen, Itoyanagi annex
糸柳別館 離れの邸 和穣苑
Wajoen’s FAQ keeps tattoos out of the large bath and asks guests to use the bath in their room. Its rooms page gives every room its own open-air bath.
Check availabilityYumeguri Yado Fuefukigawa
湯めぐり宿 笛吹川
Fuefukigawa has no published tattoo rule. Its onsen page describes all five private baths.
Yumeguri Yado Fuefukigawa tattoo policy → · All Isawa Onsen →
Check availabilityIto Onsen
Akazawa Onsen Hotel
赤沢温泉ホテル
The operator's own page says that since February 1, 2025, people with tattoos, body paint included, are asked not to enter, except in cases it approves under criteria it doesn't publish. Treat the shared baths as closed.
Check availabilityHanafubuki
伊豆高原 城ヶ崎温泉 花吹雪
The inn's own page says its nine bath houses are used without a reservation, one party at a time. There's no large bath.
Check availabilityHoshino Resorts KAI Ito
界 伊東
No tattoo rule is published on the inn's own pages.
Check availabilityIzuito Onsen Daitokan
伊東温泉 大東館
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Its own bath page describes the three private baths.
Check availabilityKazenokaori MORI Premier
ラグジュアリーホテル 風の薫 MORI premier
The hotel's own pages describe the two private baths. There's no large bath.
Check availabilityMori-no-yu Kirano-sato
八幡野温泉郷 杜の湯 きらの里
Kyoritsu Resort, which runs the hotel, sets the rule for the whole group. Whatever the size, tattooed guests use a room bath or a private bath instead of the large bath.
Check availabilityOyado Uchiyama
伊豆高原 お宿うち山
The inn's own home page says every cottage has an open-air bath. No shared bath is advertised on its pages.
Check availabilityIwamuro Onsen
Fujiya
藤屋
Fujiya and its sister inn, Yumeya, both draw on their own spring, Kaminogo Onsen.
Check availabilityIga no Sato Yumeya
著莪の里 ゆめや
The room baths run on the inn’s own spring, Kaminogo Onsen, which it shares by name with its sister inn, Fujiya.
Check availabilityKoshi no Yado Takashimaya
高志の宿 高島屋
The inn is a 300-year-old building listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan.
Koshi no Yado Takashimaya tattoo policy → · All Iwamuro Onsen →
Check availabilityYumotoya
ゆもとや
The inn announced Tsubaki and Ayame as detached rooms with a hot-spring open-air bath on September 18, 2025.
Check availabilityIya Valley
Keikoku-no-Kakureyado Iya Bijin
渓谷の隠れ宿 祖谷美人
The inn's own answers to guests say every room has a private open-air bath and there's no large bath.
Keikoku-no-Kakureyado Iya Bijin tattoo policy → · All Iya Valley →
Check availabilityWa-no-Yado Hotel Iya Onsen
和の宿 ホテル祖谷温泉
The inn's bathing rules for the shared baths don't mention tattoos.
Wa-no-Yado Hotel Iya Onsen tattoo policy → · All Iya Valley →
Check availabilityYumoto Shin-Iya Onsen Hotel Kazurabashi
湯元新祖谷温泉 ホテルかずら橋
The operator publishes no tattoo rule for the hilltop bath or the 3rd-floor bath.
Yumoto Shin-Iya Onsen Hotel Kazurabashi tattoo policy → · All Iya Valley →
Check availabilityJozankei Onsen
Grand Blissen Hotel Jozankei
グランドブリッセンホテル定山渓
Every room with a hot spring view bath is on the gorge side of the hotel.
Grand Blissen Hotel Jozankei tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityHatagoya Jozankei Shoten
旅籠屋 定山渓商店
The request is printed on the inn’s hot-spring page, under the day-bathing terms.
Hatagoya Jozankei Shoten tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityJozankei Daiichi Hotel Suizantei
定山渓第一寶亭留 翠山亭
The hotel’s own room list marks every room type as having a hot spring bath.
Jozankei Daiichi Hotel Suizantei tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityJozankei Manseikaku Hotel Milione
定山渓万世閣ホテルミリオーネ
The rule is on the hotel’s bath, day-use and FAQ pages, and it bars you from entering the bath area as well as bathing.
Jozankei Manseikaku Hotel Milione tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityJozankei Onsen Hanamomiji
定山渓温泉 花もみじ
The refusal is on the Shika-no-yu bath page of Hanamomiji’s own site, in Japanese and English.
Jozankei Onsen Hanamomiji tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityJozankei Tsuruga Resort Spa Mori no Uta
定山渓鶴雅リゾートスパ 森の謌
The hotel’s FAQ says guests with tattoos, stick-on tattoos included, can’t use the large bath.
Jozankei Tsuruga Resort Spa Mori no Uta tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityJozankei Yurakusoan
定山渓 ゆらく草庵
The inn is run by Kyoritsu Resort, the Dormy Inn group’s resort brand.
Check availabilityKasho Gyoen
奥定山渓温泉 佳松御苑
The inn states on its room page that every one of its 23 rooms is a Japanese suite with a forest-view bath.
Check availabilityKuriya Suizan
厨翠山
Each room type on the inn’s room list is named for the bath it comes with.
Check availabilityNukumori no Yado Furukawa
ぬくもりの宿 ふる川
The private bath is on the inn’s own onsen page, and the room baths are on its room pages.
Nukumori no Yado Furukawa tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityShogetsu Grand Hotel
章月グランドホテル
The hotel’s own FAQ answers which rooms have hot spring water.
Check availabilitySuichokan
女性のための宿 翠蝶館
None of the inn’s pages mentions tattoos. The group’s Kyujitsu-yu bathhouse, which Suichokan guests can visit free, turns tattooed bathers away.
Check availabilitySuigan
翠巌
The inn says it built no large bath so guests can soak whenever they want, for as long as they want.
Check availabilitySuizantei Club Jozankei
翠山亭倶楽部定山渓
The inn’s guest room page states that every room has hot spring water.
Suizantei Club Jozankei tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityYukyu no Yado Shiraito
悠久の宿 白糸
The private slots and their times are on the inn’s own onsen page.
Yukyu no Yado Shiraito tattoo policy → · All Jozankei Onsen →
Check availabilityKaike Onsen
Kaichoen
海潮園
Kaichoen publishes no tattoo rule for its two shared baths. Its own hot-spring page describes the free private bath.
Check availabilityKaike Grand Hotel Tensui
皆生グランドホテル天水
Tensui publishes no tattoo rule for its view bath and open-air bath.
Kaike Grand Hotel Tensui tattoo policy → · All Kaike Onsen →
Check availabilityKaike Shogetsu
皆生松月
The inn's FAQ refuses tattoos in the large bath and names the room baths and the private baths instead.
Note: Not every room tub is on the spring. The sea-view open-air rooms, the balcony-tub Hollywood Twins and special rooms 301 and 401 are heated ordinary water, and the hotel’s FAQ says which.
Check availabilityKaike Tsuruya
皆生つるや
The hotel's hot-spring page refuses fashion tattoos, traditional tattoos and stick-ons alike, in its notes on the large bath and on day-use bathing. The notes on the private baths carry no such line. Confirm with the front desk when you book.
Check availabilityKasuitei
皆生温泉 華水亭
Kasuitei publishes no tattoo rule, so don't count on its large baths.
Check availabilityShotoen
皆生温泉 松涛園
Shotoen publishes no tattoo rule for its rooftop open-air bath and two large baths.
Check availabilityYado Shiontei
やど紫苑亭
There's no shared bath at Shiontei, so there's no tattoo rule to publish.
Check availabilityKaminoyama
Arimakan
有馬館
Arimakan answers this in its own FAQ: guests with a tattoo of any size, anywhere on the body, may not use the large shared baths. The inn points them to its private baths instead, a seventh-floor open-air bath and three indoor baths, each booked at check-in for 40 minutes with the first session free. It also suggests the room's own bath, which the inn says is not hot spring water.
Check availabilityHanaakari no Yado Tsukinoike
花明りの宿 月の池
Tsukinoike publishes no tattoo rule. It has no private bath to book, but three of its eighteen rooms have a deck with a source-fed open-air tub, so a guest in one of them can bathe without the shared baths.
Hanaakari no Yado Tsukinoike tattoo policy → · All Kaminoyama →
Check availabilityHatago no Kokoro Hashimotoya
はたごの心 橋本屋
Hashimotoya publishes no tattoo rule. Six rooms in its Hatago-gura Usagino wing have their own tub of source-fed water, most of them open-air, and two private open-air baths can be booked ahead for the evening outside winter.
Hatago no Kokoro Hashimotoya tattoo policy → · All Kaminoyama →
Check availabilityHayamakan
葉山舘
Hayamakan publishes no tattoo rule. Every room has its own indoor bath of 100 percent source water, so a guest can bathe without using the shared baths at all.
Check availabilityKajitsu no Yama Azumaya
果実の山 あづま屋
Azumaya publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private open-air baths, one of cypress and one of granite, used in 45-minute slots, and four suites with an open-air tub of source water on their own terrace.
Check availabilityNihon no Yado Koyo
日本の宿 古窯
Koyo's own FAQ says guests with tattoos may not use the large shared baths. The answer here is a room with its own tub: 37 rooms have one, and the inn says all of them run on hot spring water. There is also one private open-air bath, booked for 45 minutes.
Check availabilitySagiya Sansorai
三木屋 参蒼来
Sansorai publishes no tattoo rule. It has no reservable private bath, but seven of its rooms have their own tub of source-fed water: three with an open-air bath and four Kiyose rooms with an indoor spring bath. Those rooms are the way to bathe here without sharing.
Check availabilitySaikatei Jidaiya
彩花亭 時代屋
Jidaiya publishes no tattoo rule. Seven of its rooms have a hot spring tub of their own, open-air, semi-open-air or indoors, and two source-fed private open-air baths are booked for 45 minutes at ¥3,300.
Check availabilityKanazawa area
Arimatsu Onsen Motoyu Lemon-yu
有松温泉元湯 れもん湯
No tattoo rule is published for the public bath. Take one of the eight private baths upstairs, two of them with their own sauna.
Arimatsu Onsen Motoyu Lemon-yu tattoo policy → · All Kanazawa area →
Higashiyama Auberge Maki no Oto Kanazawa
東山のオーベルジュ 薪の音 金澤
Nothing is shared: each of the four rooms has its own bath, and there’s no other.
Note: This is not an onsen. The only baths are the tubs in the four rooms, and the inn says they are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water.
Higashiyama Auberge Maki no Oto Kanazawa tattoo policy → · All Kanazawa area →
Check availabilityKanazawa Yuwaku Onsen Hyakurakuso
金澤湯涌温泉 百楽荘
No tattoo rule is published. The Kagura annex has only private baths, two free walk-in ones and two you can book.
Kanazawa Yuwaku Onsen Hyakurakuso tattoo policy → · All Kanazawa area →
Check availabilityKanazawa Yuwaku Onsen Yunode
金沢湯涌温泉 湯の出
No tattoo rule is published. Book one of the three rooms with a private open-air spring bath: Nadeshiko, Yuri or Yamabuki.
Kanazawa Yuwaku Onsen Yunode tattoo policy → · All Kanazawa area →
Check availabilityKanazawa Yuwaku Yamane
金沢・湯涌 山音
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Its notice of July 11, 2026 closed the shared open-air bath to save fuel but kept the private bath running.
Kanazawa Yuwaku Yamane tattoo policy → · All Kanazawa area →
Check availabilityKinjo Onsen Motoyu
金城温泉元湯
No tattoo rule is published. Rent one of the 14 private baths, nine of them bookable online, and lock the door.
Yuwaku Onsen Kokarian
湯涌温泉 古香里庵
The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and it takes no day bathers.
Check availabilityKaruizawa
Ancient Hotel Asama Karuizawa
アンシェントホテル浅間軽井沢
No tattoo rule is published for the shared bath, Hibiki-no-yu.
Ancient Hotel Asama Karuizawa tattoo policy → · All Karuizawa →
Check availabilityDormy Club Karuizawa
ドーミー倶楽部 軽井沢
Both private baths are indoor, one in cypress and one in stone, the same size, and a family takes one alone.
Note: Nothing here is hot spring water. Every bath, shared or private, is an artificial mineral bath, and the FAQ says so.
Check availabilityHotel Cypress Karuizawa
ホテルサイプレス軽井沢
Neither the hotel’s FAQ nor its facilities page mentions tattoos, and the large bath on B1 is shared.
Check availabilityKaruizawa Hotel Longing House
軽井沢ホテル ロンギングハウス
No shared bath is listed with the private baths, and every room has its own bath as well.
Note: Nothing here is hot spring water. The baths run on well water, and the hotel says so.
Karuizawa Hotel Longing House tattoo policy → · All Karuizawa →
Check availabilityKaruizawa Hotel Soyokaze
軽井沢 ホテルそよかぜ
The hotel’s FAQ points families to this room because the hotel has no private bath (kazoku-buro).
Note: The hotel’s FAQ says its bath is not hot spring water: it is heated water with radium ore and Towada stone added.
Check availabilityKose Onsen Hotel
小瀬温泉ホテル
Both springs belong to the inn, at 52°C (126°F) and 45°C (113°F), and the water is never recirculated, filtered or heated.
Check availabilityLe Chien Kyu-Karuizawa
ルシアン旧軽井沢
The rule is in the hotel’s own FAQ. The Kyoritsu Resort group FAQ says the same and adds the bath in your room.
Check availabilityLe Grand Karuizawa Hotel & Resort
ルグラン軽井沢ホテル＆リゾート
Le Grand Kyu-Karuizawa, the group’s hotel in town, refuses tattooed bathers outright on its own bath page.
Le Grand Karuizawa Hotel & Resort tattoo policy → · All Karuizawa →
Check availabilityPiccolo Hotel Opera Karuizawa
ピッコロホテル オペラ軽井沢
The pension has no men’s and women’s baths, only the two private ones, and both are for staying guests.
Note: Nothing here is hot spring water. The pension’s own FAQ says so.
Piccolo Hotel Opera Karuizawa tattoo policy → · All Karuizawa →
Check availabilityShiotsubo Onsen Hotel
塩壺温泉ホテル
The inn lists one kazoku-buro, a private bath, alongside the men’s and women’s large baths.
Check availabilityThe Prince Villa Karuizawa
ザ・プリンス ヴィラ軽井沢
Only the five Maisonette Spa villas have the hot spring bath. The plain Maisonette and the Terrace villas don’t.
The Prince Villa Karuizawa tattoo policy → · All Karuizawa →
Check availabilityKatayamazu Onsen
APA Hotel & Resort Kaga Katayamazu Onsen Kasuikyo
アパホテル＆リゾート 加賀片山津温泉 佳水郷
No tattoo rule is published. Book a top-floor room with its own open-air bath facing the Hakusan range.
APA Hotel & Resort Kaga Katayamazu Onsen Kasuikyo tattoo policy → · All Katayamazu Onsen →
Check availabilityKanoya Kourakuen
かのや光楽苑
No tattoo rule is published. Rent one of the two private baths at the front desk, or book a room with a half-open-air bath.
Check availabilityKohan no Yado Morimoto
湖畔の宿 森本
No tattoo rule is published. Rent one of the two free-flowing private baths at the front desk.
Kohan no Yado Morimoto tattoo policy → · All Katayamazu Onsen →
Check availabilityTokigasane
季がさね
No tattoo rule is published. Book one of the two room types with an open-air bath of all Katayamazu water facing the lake.
Check availabilityNachi-Katsuura
Kamenoi Hotel Nachi-Katsuura
亀の井ホテル 那智勝浦
Not the large bath or the open-air one off it, whether the tattoo is traditional or fashion, and the hotel’s own answer points at the room instead. Book one of the rooms with a hot spring open-air bath and there is nothing to cover.
Kamenoi Hotel Nachi-Katsuura tattoo policy → · All Nachi-Katsuura →
Check availabilityKiyomon-yu
きよもん湯
The bathhouse has three family baths that one party takes privately, ¥1,000 a room for up to 50 minutes on top of the entry fee. Its page says nothing about tattoos in the two shared baths, so the family bath is the one to use.
Kumano Bettei Nakanoshima
熊野別邸 中の島
Book the Nagi-no-sho wing and a bath is yours: every room there has a private open-air bath above the water. The ryokan is clear that those room baths aren’t hot spring water; only the VIP room in the older wing has spring water in its own bath. Its two private open-air baths, booked by phone, are the other way in. The bath at the water’s edge, Kishu Chomon no Yu, carries no published rule.
Kumano Bettei Nakanoshima tattoo policy → · All Nachi-Katsuura →
Check availabilityKawaguchiko
Ashiwada Hotel
足和田ホテル
Ashiwada Hotel publishes no tattoo rule.
Check availabilityFufu Kawaguchiko
ふふ 河口湖
The hotel’s FAQ firmly refuses tattoos in the large bath.
Check availabilityFuji Lake Hotel
富士レークホテル
The hotel's notice for overseas guests, in English only, says people with tattoos may not use the public baths. It doesn't name the private baths.
Check availabilityHotel Kaneyamaen
富士山温泉 ホテル鐘山苑
The hotel's own onsen page refuses tattooed guests in the shared baths.
Check availabilityKasuitei Ooya
花水庭 おおや
Ooya publishes no tattoo rule.
Note: The room tubs are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The inn chose that on purpose, for guests who have to avoid mineral water.
Check availabilityKawaguchiko Onsenji Yumedono
河口湖温泉寺 夢殿
The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and its pages describe no bath you'd have to share.
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Check availabilityKonansou
湖南荘
Konansou publishes no tattoo rule. Its own Q&A says which baths run on the spring.
Note: Only the rooms named Rin and Kohaku have an open-air tub on the spring. In every other room the tub is ordinary heated water, not hot spring water; the inn says so.
Check availabilityLa Vista Fuji Kawaguchiko
ラビスタ富士河口湖
La Vista publishes no tattoo rule for this hotel, so don't count on the large bath.
La Vista Fuji Kawaguchiko tattoo policy → · All Kawaguchiko →
Check availabilityOoike Hotel
富士山の見える温泉旅館 大池ホテル
Ooike publishes no tattoo rule on its own site.
Note: The private open-air baths are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The hotel says so.
Check availabilityShuhokaku Kogetsu
秀峰閣 湖月
Kogetsu publishes no tattoo rule.
Check availabilitySunnide Resort
河口湖畔 サニーデリゾート
Not the shared baths. Sunnide’s bath page refuses tattooed bathers, along with the very drunk and anyone in diapers. The answer is the lakeside annex, Senikkei, whose Premium and Grand suites each come with an open-air bath of their own facing Mount Fuji and the lake. The operator does not say whether the suite tubs are hot spring water.
Check availabilityThe Kukuna (THE KUKUNA)
The Kukuna publishes no tattoo rule and lists no private bath.
Check availabilityToki Yuyu Rakuyu
時悠々 楽游
Rakuyu publishes no tattoo rule.
Note: The tubs in the Yuyu-an and Suimei-an rooms are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The inn says so under each room.
Check availabilityWakakusa no Yado Maruei
若草の宿 丸栄
The inn's own day-plan page refuses tattooed guests in the shared baths and sends them to their room bath or the paid private bath. Its onsen page adds that a seal doesn't count as covering.
Check availabilityKawayu and Lake Kussharo
Kirano-yado Subaru
きらの宿すばる
The inn’s own pages say both bathhouses can be taken privately; the rest of the time they’re the men’s and women’s baths.
Kirano-yado Subaru tattoo policy → · All Kawayu and Lake Kussharo →
Check availabilityKussharoko Sauna Club
屈斜路湖温泉 屈斜路湖サウナ倶楽部
The operator rents the building, day slots included, as a single booking.
Kussharoko Sauna Club tattoo policy → · All Kawayu and Lake Kussharo →
Check availabilitySANSUI Lakeside Villa
山水
Every bath in both houses runs fully free-flowing hot-spring water.
SANSUI Lakeside Villa tattoo policy → · All Kawayu and Lake Kussharo →
Check availabilityKikuchi and Ueki
Hanare Furusato Ryokan Otsukien
離れふるさと 旅館大月苑
Otsukien publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its nine rooms has its own bath filled from the inn's well: a semi-open-air tub in each of the six detached cottages and an indoor tub in the three new-wing rooms. A tattooed guest can bathe in private and skip the shared bath.
Hanare Furusato Ryokan Otsukien tattoo policy → · All Kikuchi and Ueki →
Check availabilityKikuchi Grand Hotel
菊池グランドホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. Every room has its own bathroom whose tap runs the hotel's radon hot spring, and there is one family bath for six that can be booked ahead for 50 minutes, so a tattooed guest has two ways to bathe in private.
Kikuchi Grand Hotel tattoo policy → · All Kikuchi and Ueki →
Check availabilityKodachi no Naka no Yado Seiryuso
木立の中の宿 清流荘
Seiryuso publishes no tattoo rule. Its bathhouse Yunokura rents twelve family baths by the room for 50 minutes, so a tattooed guest can bathe behind a locked door without using the shared baths. Rooms are not reserved ahead; you take the next free one.
Kodachi no Naka no Yado Seiryuso tattoo policy → · All Kikuchi and Ueki →
Check availabilityMochizuki Ryokan
望月旅館
Mochizuki publishes no tattoo rule. Four of its rooms have their own open-air bath fed straight from the spring, so a tattooed guest who books one of them can bathe in private for the whole stay and skip the shared garden bath.
Check availabilityRyokan Iroha
旅館 いろは
Iroha publishes no tattoo rule. Three of its rooms have a private open-air rock bath, so a tattooed guest who books one of them can bathe in private and stay out of the shared baths.
Check availabilityRyokan Matsunoyu
旅館 松乃湯
Matsunoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests can use its two private family baths free, booked for a set time, and the one special room has its own open-air and indoor spring baths, so a tattooed guest has a way to bathe without sharing.
Check availabilityRyokan Yayanoyu
旅館 ややの湯
Yayanoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its six rooms has its own open-air bath of spring water straight from the source, so a tattooed guest bathes in private for the whole stay.
Check availabilityShironoi Ryokan and Shironoi Onsen
城乃井旅館
Shironoi publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests get two private baths, Kaede and Momiji, free and without booking: if one is empty, go in and lock the door. Day visitors can rent the same baths, or the small family bath in the inn's public bathhouse next door, by the hour.
Shironoi Ryokan and Shironoi Onsen tattoo policy → · All Kikuchi and Ueki →
Check availabilityUeki Onsen Hotei-yu
植木温泉 ほてい湯
Hotei-yu has no shared bath: every one of its twelve baths is rented as a private room, and its own Q&A says guests with tattoos may bathe. The two Premium buildings must be booked ahead; the ten Self buildings take no bookings and are paid by the minute.
Ueki Onsen Hotei-yu tattoo policy → · All Kikuchi and Ueki →
Ueki Onsen Kirinoyu
植木温泉 桐乃湯
Kirinoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Eight of its ten rooms have their own bath of the inn's spring water: open-air, semi-open-air, or a Shigaraki ceramic tub. A tattooed guest who books one of those rooms can bathe privately and leave the shared baths alone.
Ueki Onsen Kirinoyu tattoo policy → · All Kikuchi and Ueki →
Check availabilityWafu Ryokan Shiroyamaso
和風旅館 城山荘
Shiroyamaso publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests can have the family bath to themselves free of charge, and the open-air bath attached to the banquet hall can also be taken privately on nights the hall is not in use, so a tattooed guest can bathe without sharing.
Wafu Ryokan Shiroyamaso tattoo policy → · All Kikuchi and Ueki →
Check availabilityYurutto-tei Sakurazaka
湯るっと邸 桜坂
Sakurazaka publishes no tattoo rule, and it has no shared bath: every one of its eleven cottages is rented whole by the hour, with its own open-air and indoor bath, so a tattooed bather never shares the water.
Yurutto-tei Sakurazaka tattoo policy → · All Kikuchi and Ueki →
Kinugawa Onsen
Hana no Yado Matsuya
花の宿 松や
The inn's own site publishes no tattoo policy for its shared baths.
Check availabilityHotel Harvest Kinugawa Keisui
ホテルハーヴェスト鬼怒川渓翠
Every room here, from the 59 m² deluxe twins up, comes with an onsen open-air tub over the gorge, so a tattooed guest never has to use the shared bath. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. There is also a sixth-floor family bath with onsen water, one hour for 3,300 yen by reservation.
Hotel Harvest Kinugawa Keisui tattoo policy → · All Kinugawa Onsen →
Check availabilityHotel New Ohruri
ホテルニューおおるり
The Ohruri group publishes no tattoo rule on the hotel page or in its FAQ. The answer here is the two private open-air baths, reserved at the front desk on the day you arrive, first come first served. Nothing is published about a fee or a time limit, so ask as soon as you check in.
Check availabilityHotel Shirakawa Yunokura
ほてる白河 湯の蔵
The hotel’s bath page says guests with tattoos, fashion tattoos included, cannot use the large bath. The answer is the two private open-air baths, Kofu-no-yu and Niwakaze-no-yu, ¥3,300 for 50 minutes, each with its own changing and washing area. Sign up at the front desk at check-in; the hotel takes no phone bookings for them.
Hotel Shirakawa Yunokura tattoo policy → · All Kinugawa Onsen →
Check availabilityHotel Sunshine Kinugawa
ホテルサンシャイン鬼怒川
Sunshine is silent on tattoos in its large baths. Its two private baths go first come first served at the front desk from 14:00: the indoor Akane at 3,850 yen for 45 minutes, 15:30 to 23:15, and the open-air rock bath Kirara at 2,750 yen, 15:00 to 23:00. For a whole night of privacy, the top-floor and 13th-floor suites have their own open-air tubs some 50 meters above the ground.
Hotel Sunshine Kinugawa tattoo policy → · All Kinugawa Onsen →
Check availabilityHotel Tsuganoki
ホテル栂の季
Tsuganoki publishes no tattoo rule. Fifteen of its rooms have their own open-air tub and there is a private bath, Yururi, for 3,300 yen, but the hotel says outright that neither is onsen water. The onsen is only in the shared baths.
Check availabilityIsshinkan
一心舘
Isshinkan publishes no tattoo rule for its baths, Kurhaus or pool. Its open-air private bath runs on the inn’s own source and is sold at 3,300 yen for 50 minutes to overnight and lunch guests; the Yukemuri room includes 50 minutes of it free.
Check availabilityKinugawa Grand Hotel Yume no Toki
鬼怒川グランドホテル 夢の季
The hotel’s FAQ takes the question and answers it sideways: a guest with a tattoo is asked to be considerate of other bathers, and the hotel recommends its private baths. Read that as a private listing. Five private open-air baths are the way in: each is fed straight from the source, each has a tatami rest room, and a 50-minute slot costs 3,000 yen before tax (4,000 yen for Ryugu). Ask at the front desk on the day of your stay.
Kinugawa Grand Hotel Yume no Toki tattoo policy → · All Kinugawa Onsen →
Check availabilityKinugawa Kanaya Hotel
鬼怒川金谷ホテル
Kanaya publishes no tattoo rule for its Kodai Hinoki and Shiki-no-yu baths. Five room types come with onsen water of their own: three with an open-air tub of Towada stone on the terrace, two with an indoor view bath of marble or cypress by a big window.
Kinugawa Kanaya Hotel tattoo policy → · All Kinugawa Onsen →
Check availabilityKinugawa Kokusai Hotel
きぬ川国際ホテル
Nothing on the Kokusai site mentions tattoos. Its private bath, booked at check-in for 45 minutes at 3,300 yen, has a tub for people and a second tub for dogs; the Bandai and Fuji suites each have their own half-open-air bath with the same two tubs.
Kinugawa Kokusai Hotel tattoo policy → · All Kinugawa Onsen →
Check availabilityKinugawa Park Hotels
鬼怒川パークホテルズ
The rule and the alternatives are on the hotel's own information page, in the same sentence.
Check availabilityKinugawa Plaza Hotel
鬼怒川プラザホテル
Kinugawa Plaza publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath. A few minutes’ walk from the main building, Hoozukitei holds ten private open-air baths at 3,630 yen and up for 50 minutes per room, and several room types, the renovated Sui rooms among them, have an open-air tub with unmixed spring water running through it.
Check availabilityKinugawa Royal Hotel
鬼怒川ロイヤルホテル
The hotel's own site publishes no tattoo policy for its shared bath.
Check availabilityLivemax Resort Kinugawa
リブマックスリゾート鬼怒川
Every room at Livemax Resort Kinugawa has its own Shigaraki-ware open-air tub on a private terrace, and the hotel publishes no tattoo rule for the shared bath. A private bath is also sold at two hours for 2,500 yen, booked the same day at the front desk.
Livemax Resort Kinugawa tattoo policy → · All Kinugawa Onsen →
Check availabilityNanaeyae
静寂とまごころの宿 七重八重
The inn says plainly that tattoos, fashion tattoos included, are not allowed in its large bath or open-air bath. Bathe in private instead: two 12-mat rooms on the second floor have their own spring-fed open-air tubs facing the gorge, Japanese-Western rooms renovated in 2022 have an onsen indoor bath, and the two private baths, Mitsukane-no-yu and Iwatsubame-no-yu, are 45 minutes for 3,850 yen each, booked by phone when you reserve the room.
Check availabilityNikko Kinugawa Hotel Mikazuki
日光きぬ川ホテル三日月
The shared baths, pools and garden spa are the reason most people come, and the hotel’s own pages publish no tattoo rule for them. The private answer is the Mikazuki CLUB9 floor, where eight suites, five on the river side and three on the town side, each have a stone open-air tub filled with onsen water.
Nikko Kinugawa Hotel Mikazuki tattoo policy → · All Kinugawa Onsen →
Check availabilityOyado Ichifuji
御宿一富士
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Its answer is the bath itself: there is one bath hall, an open-air bath with an indoor tub, and the inn says that when it is empty you can take it as a private bath. Ask at the desk for a slot; nothing is published on a fee or a time limit.
Check availabilityWakatake no Sho
若竹の庄
Wakatake no Sho publishes nothing about tattoos. Its two private baths, on the first floor of the Sasane annex, have floor-to-ceiling windows that open to make them half open-air, and they are booked at check-in: 45 minutes for 3,300 yen, 16:00 to 23:00.
Check availabilityYurara Marukyo
鬼怒川温泉 ゆらら 丸京
Marukyo publishes no tattoo rule. Four of its sixteen rooms, two Japanese-Western and two Japanese twins, have their own open-air tub; book one of those and nothing needs to be shared.
Check availabilityKirishima
Amateras
霧島温泉 夫婦露天風呂の宿 天テラス
The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and it has no large bath: its FAQ sends every guest to the four private open-air baths, each with an indoor tub and a warm spring-water pool, open 3 p.m. to midnight and 5 to 9:30 a.m. Seven rooms also have an open-air bath of their own.
Check availabilityKirishima Miyama Hotel
霧島みやまホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. Its answer is in the plumbing: all five tubs, two indoor and three open-air, are run as private baths, free for staying guests at any hour and as often as they like, so there is no shared bath at all. Day visitors get one tub to themselves for 50 minutes.
Check availabilityKoshikano Onsen
美肌の湯 こしかの温泉
The inn answers the question in its own FAQ: yes, a guest with tattoos can bathe, because every room comes with its own bath and nobody else sees you. Day-use bathing and the family baths ended in November 2021, so the only tubs left are the ones inside the rooms and glamping units.
Check availabilityLa Vista Kirishima Hills
ラビスタ霧島ヒルズ
The hotel’s FAQ refuses tattoos in the large bath, fashion and religious ones included, and points to the room baths and the private baths. Every one of its 105 rooms has an open-air hot spring tub, and three private baths are free, open 24 hours and taken first come, with no reservation, so a tattooed guest can bathe without ever entering the shared bath.
Check availabilityMyoken Ishiharaso
妙見石原荘
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. For a tattooed guest the answer is Nanami-no-yu, a cypress open-air bath that staying guests reserve free in 30-minute slots from 3:40 p.m., or Mutsumi-no-yu at 1,000 yen a half hour, plus eight rooms with a source-fed open-air bath of their own. The large bath and the riverside Mukunoki bath are shared.
Check availabilityMyoken Onsen Nemu
妙見温泉 ねむ
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its two shared baths. The answer is a ground-floor room: seven of them have their own open-air tub of the inn's high-carbonate bicarbonate spring. The inn also lists a family bath but gives no terms for it.
Check availabilityMyoken Rakuenso
妙見楽園荘
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Fourteen of its units are detached houses with a hot spring bath of their own that runs 24 hours and a kitchen, so a guest with tattoos never needs the main building's shared bath, which also admits day visitors.
Check availabilityOrihashi Ryokan
おりはし旅館
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its twelve detached cottages has its own source-fed open-air bath and indoor bath, so a tattooed guest can skip the shared Enoki-no-yu open-air bath and the two indoor baths. There is no family bath for day visitors, but the inn sells day plans that include a cottage and its baths.
Check availabilityRyokojin Sanso
旅行人山荘
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its two large baths. The answer is its four open-air private baths scattered in the woods, free for staying guests in 45-minute slots booked ahead, plus three second-floor rooms with an open-air spring tub of their own. Day visitors can rent a private bath for 50 minutes.
Check availabilitySakura Sakura Onsen
さくらさくら温泉
The inn’s FAQ firmly refuses tattoos in its large bath, which is Sakura-no-yu, the big shared open-air bath with the mud packs. The option for a tattooed guest is Miyama, a private open-air and indoor bath that staying guests use free from 4 to 9 p.m., but it closes from December until spring when the inn cannot keep the water warm, and a second private bath, Momiji-yu, is shut for now.
Check availabilityTsumikusa no Yado Komatsu
摘み草の宿こまつ
The inn publishes no tattoo rule and names no shared bath. Each of its six rooms has an open-air bath of its own, in a different material, usable from 3:30 p.m. until 10:30 the next morning.
Check availabilityWasure no Sato Gajoen
忘れの里 雅叙苑
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Eight of its rooms have a bath of their own, from Kaze's open-air tub on a wooden terrace to the bath-living rooms where the tub sits beside the sofa, and the two private baths Utase-yu and Ramune-yu are free for guests until midnight. Even the main bath, Tateyu, can be taken as a free private bath outside the day-use hours of noon to 3 p.m.
Check availabilityYumotoan Kiyohime
湯本庵 清姫
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Every room has its own open-air hot spring bath fed straight from the source and open around the clock, so a tattooed guest never needs a shared bath here; the inn names none.
Check availabilityYuyuan
優湯庵
Yuyuan's day-use bath, You-yu, refuses bathers with tattoos or any body art, including paint and stickers. The way in for a tattooed guest is a room: all four main-building rooms and all fifteen cottages have their own source-fed open-air bath. The day-use wing also rents eleven private bath rooms by the hour, and that page carries no tattoo rule.
Check availabilityKochi and the Ashizuri coast
Ashizuri Sunny Side Hotel
あしずり温泉郷 足摺サニーサイドホテル
No tattoo rule is published for the shared bath. The hotel's facilities page and FAQ describe the annex tubs.
Ashizuri Sunny Side Hotel tattoo policy → · All Kochi and the Ashizuri coast →
Check availabilityAshizuri Thermae
ASHIZURI THERMAE アシズリテルメ
No tattoo rule appears on the site, including the pages for the shared baths.
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Check availabilityKaiyu
海癒
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Bathing without a stay is private use only, by reservation.
Check availabilityShimanto-no-Yado
四万十の宿
The inn's day-bathing page refuses tattooed guests in the shared bath, which it shares with the day-use house next door. It has no family or private bath.
Note: The open-air tubs in the rooms are not hot spring water; the inn says so. The spring is in the shared bath, which refuses tattoos.
Shimanto-no-Yado tattoo policy → · All Kochi and the Ashizuri coast →
Check availabilityTheMana Village
ザマナヴィレッジ
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its shared bath, so don't count on it.
Note: The room tubs are heated tap water, not the spring. The hotel says so on its booking pages.
TheMana Village tattoo policy → · All Kochi and the Ashizuri coast →
Check availabilityTosa Gyoen
土佐御苑
The refusal is on the inn's own bath page, with no seal exception.
Tosa Gyoen tattoo policy → · All Kochi and the Ashizuri coast →
Check availabilityKotohira
Konpira Onsen Kashikiri Yu-no-Yado Kotone
こんぴら温泉 貸切湯の宿 ことね
There's no shared bath in this building. The inn's own page names the six private baths and says they're free to guests.
Konpira Onsen Kashikiri Yu-no-Yado Kotone tattoo policy → · All Kotohira →
Check availabilityKonpira Onsen Yumoto Yachiyo
こんぴら温泉湯元八千代
Yachiyo publishes nothing about tattoos, so don't count on the rooftop bath.
Konpira Onsen Yumoto Yachiyo tattoo policy → · All Kotohira →
Check availabilityKotohira Kadan
琴平花壇
Nothing on the inn's site mentions tattoos, so don't count on the shared bath, Kissho-no-yu.
Check availabilityKotohira Onsen Kotosankaku
ことひら温泉 琴参閣
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. Each open-air room listing says the room tub isn't spring water.
Note: The room baths are not hot spring water. The hotel says so on every open-air room listing.
Check availabilityKotohira Onsen Oyado Shikishimakan
ことひら温泉 御宿 敷島館
Shikishimakan publishes no tattoo rule, and its parent refuses tattoos at its Dormy Inn city hotels, so treat the shared bath as closed.
Kotohira Onsen Oyado Shikishimakan tattoo policy → · All Kotohira →
Check availabilityYumoto Konpira Onsen Hananoyu Koubaitei
湯元こんぴら温泉 華の湯 紅梅亭
The inn's big-bath pages say tattoo cover seals are available. The room pages describe the in-room open-air baths.
Yumoto Konpira Onsen Hananoyu Koubaitei tattoo policy → · All Kotohira →
Check availabilityKuju and Nagayu
Asahiya Ryokan
朝日屋旅館
Asahiya publishes no tattoo rule. Some of its baths, among them an iron-pot goemon bath, are private baths that guests take whenever they are free, so a tattooed guest can bathe alone.
Check availabilityBansho no Yu, Nagayu Historic Hot Spring Hall
万象の湯 長湯歴史温泉伝承館
Bansho no Yu publishes no tattoo rule. It rents three family baths for 50 minutes at a time, each with its own indoor tub, bubbling cold tub and open-air tub, so a tattooed bather can take the whole circuit alone.
Bansho no Yu, Nagayu Historic Hot Spring Hall tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityDaimaru Ryokan
大丸旅館
Daimaru Ryokan publishes no tattoo rule. It keeps two family baths that a party has to itself, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared halls.
Check availabilityFlugel Kuju
フリューゲル久住
Flugel Kuju publishes no tattoo rule and has no shared bath: every one of its ten detached cottages has its own open-air bath and indoor bath of free-flowing spring water, open 24 hours.
Check availabilityHannari Oyado Ryusenkaku
はんなりおやど 龍泉閣
Ryusenkaku publishes no tattoo rule. It has two family baths, a heart-shaped open-air one and a barrier-free cypress one, and gives each staying party one 30-minute session free by reservation, so a tattooed guest can bathe privately at least once.
Hannari Oyado Ryusenkaku tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityHatago Sakura
旅籠 彩くら
Hatago Sakura publishes no tattoo rule for guests and has no shared bath: every one of its ten cottages has its own open-air bath of free-flowing spring water, and its one other bath, a rock open-air bath, is reserved privately and free for staying guests.
Check availabilityHito Nagano-yu
秘湯 ながの湯
Nagano-yu publishes no tattoo rule. It has four family bath buildings at ¥1,000 for 50 minutes, so a tattooed bather can take one alone.
Hosenji Kanko Hotel Yumotoya
宝泉寺観光ホテル 湯本屋
Yumotoya publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests can hire one of two private open-air baths for 50 minutes, the large Komakichi-no-yu or a smaller one for two or three, and three special rooms have their own half-open-air bath, so a tattooed guest can avoid the large baths.
Hosenji Kanko Hotel Yumotoya tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityHotaru to Zekkei no Yado Tsurezure
ホタルと絶景の宿 つれづれ
Tsurezure publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its nine rooms has its own bath of free-flowing spring water, four of them half-open-air, and day visitors can hire a family bath with a rest room by the hour, so a tattooed guest never needs the shared bath.
Hotaru to Zekkei no Yado Tsurezure tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityJosei Tenku no Mori, Spa Ku
常聖 天空の杜 Spa Kū「空」
Tenku no Mori publishes no tattoo rule. Its Spa Ku has only private family bath rooms, five in all, each with an indoor tub and a tiered open-air tub, so every booking is a bath of your own.
Josei Tenku no Mori, Spa Ku tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Kabeyu Tennen Dokutsu Onsen Ryokan Fukumotoya
壁湯天然洞窟温泉 旅館 福元屋
Fukumotoya publishes no tattoo rule. Its famous riverside cave bath is mixed and shared, but it also has two private baths, one of storehouse stone and one of stone the owner cut himself, which guests take whenever they are free.
Kabeyu Tennen Dokutsu Onsen Ryokan Fukumotoya tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityKeikoku no Yado Nihiki no Oni
渓谷の宿 二匹の鬼
Nihiki no Oni publishes no tattoo rule. Its detached cottages have their own open-air bath, and it has five family baths that staying guests use free around the clock, so a tattooed guest can bathe privately.
Keikoku no Yado Nihiki no Oni tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityKinosato Yamanoyu
季の郷 山の湯
Yamanoyu publishes no tattoo rule; its FAQ covers pets, meals and cards but not tattoos. It has a fully private family bath, booked when you reserve or at check-in and opened with your phone, so a tattooed guest can bathe alone.
Check availabilityKokonoe Iyashi no Sato Hotel Daikogen
九重いやしの里 ホテル大高原
Hotel Daikogen publishes no tattoo rule. Besides its men’s and women’s baths it has seven private baths, from riverside open-air pools to two cave baths, so a tattooed guest can bathe privately all evening.
Kokonoe Iyashi no Sato Hotel Daikogen tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityKuju Kogen Cottage
久住高原コテージ
Kuju Kogen Cottage publishes no tattoo rule. It rents a family bath, with its own open-air tub looking toward the Aso peaks and an indoor tub, for 50 minutes at a time, booked at the front desk, so a tattooed guest can bathe privately.
Check availabilityKur Park Nagayu
クアパーク長湯
Kur Park Nagayu publishes no tattoo rule. Its twin cottages each have their own indoor bath behind a screen, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the room; the tub is ordinary heated water with bicarbonate tablets, not the spring.
Check availabilityMarucho Ryokan
丸長旅館
Marucho Ryokan publishes no tattoo rule, and it needs none: every bath in the inn is a family bath taken by one party at a time. There is no shared bath to be turned away from.
Check availabilityMeisui no Yado Houjuya
名水の宿 宝珠屋
Houjuya publishes no tattoo rule. It has three private baths, of cypress, rock and old storehouse stone, which staying guests take by the hour, so a tattooed guest can bathe privately instead of in the large baths or the mixed open-air bath.
Meisui no Yado Houjuya tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityNagayu Onsen Gozen-yu
長湯温泉療養文化館 御前湯
Gozen-yu publishes no tattoo rule; its bathing manners page asks only for washing first and quiet. It rents four family baths for 50 minutes at a time, so a tattooed bather can use one alone instead of the two large baths.
Nagayu Onsen Gozen-yu tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Nagayu Onsen Kajikaan
長湯温泉 かじか庵
Kajikaan publishes no tattoo rule. Its bathhouse rents two private baths by the hour, at half price for staying guests, and two of its rooms have their own cypress open-air tub from April to October, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared halls.
Nagayu Onsen Kajikaan tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityOita Kokonoe Kuoritei
大分九重 久織亭
Kuoritei publishes no tattoo rule. Every cottage has its own half-open-air bath of free-flowing spring water, open 24 hours, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the room. Kuoritei guests may also use the baths at its sister lodge Toranoyu, but Toranoyu’s own page turns away tattooed bathers, so keep to the room bath.
Oita Kokonoe Kuoritei tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityOyado Yukimiso
御宿 友喜美荘
Yukimiso publishes no tattoo rule. It keeps a family bath that only staying guests may use, so a tattooed guest can bathe privately instead of in the men’s or women’s bath.
Check availabilityPal Club Daichi no Yu
パルクラブ 大地乃湯
Daichi no Yu publishes no tattoo rule. Besides its men’s and women’s baths it has five family baths, one built for disabled bathers, taken on the day without booking, so a tattooed bather can use one alone.
Pal Club Daichi no Yu tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Ramune Onsenkan
ラムネ温泉館
Ramune Onsenkan publishes no tattoo rule. It rents three family baths by the hour on the day, each with the same hot and cool carbonated tubs as the main bath, so a tattooed bather can have one alone.
Resonate Club Kuju
レゾネイトクラブくじゅう
Resonate Club Kuju publishes no tattoo rule. It has Japanese-Western rooms with their own hot spring open-air bath and a private open-air bath, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the large bath.
Check availabilityRyokan Furusato
旅館 ふるさと
Ryokan Furusato publishes no tattoo rule. It has no shared bath: all five of its baths, in separate little bath houses around the grounds, are private, so a tattooed guest bathes alone.
Check availabilityRyokan Nanakamado
旅館 ななかまど
Nanakamado publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its five rooms has its own bath of free-flowing spring water, open around the clock, so a tattooed guest bathes in the room.
Check availabilityRyokan Shirataki
旅館 白滝
Shirataki publishes no tattoo rule. It keeps four family baths that guests take privately and free, two of them open around the clock, and two rooms with a roofed open-air bath of their own, so a tattooed guest can skip the men’s and women’s baths.
Check availabilityRyoso Komatsu Besso
旅荘 小松別荘
Komatsu Besso publishes no tattoo rule. All four of its baths are private and can be taken at any hour, and one room and the detached house have a bath of their own, so a tattooed guest never shares a tub here.
Check availabilitySanso Yamanoiro
山荘 やまの彩
Yamanoiro publishes no tattoo rule. Seven of its eight rooms have their own bath of spring water, most of them open-air, and its three other baths are run as private family baths for staying guests, so a tattooed guest need not share a bath.
Check availabilityShugetsu
秀月
Shugetsu publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its eight detached rooms has its own half-open-air bath of spring water, and the inn has turned its former large bath into a private bath too, so there is no shared bath at all.
Check availabilityShukubo Hanashinobu
宿房 花しのぶ
Hanashinobu publishes no tattoo rule, and it has no shared bath of its own: all four of its baths, three indoor family baths and an open-air bath in an old storehouse, are taken privately and free. The village public baths next door are another matter.
Check availabilityShukubo Kawasemi no Sho, The Kingfisher Resort
宿房 翡翠之庄
The Kingfisher Resort publishes no tattoo rule. Its five private baths, two open-air and three indoor, are free to staying guests whenever the key is on the board, and five of its houses have their own open-air tub, so a tattooed guest never needs the shared baths.
Shukubo Kawasemi no Sho, The Kingfisher Resort tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilitySpa Greenness
スパ・グリネス
Spa Greenness publishes no tattoo rule and has no shared bath: each of its nine detached cottages has its own open-air or half-open-air bath of free-flowing spring water.
Check availabilityTabi no Yado Yamatsubaki
旅の宿 山椿
Yamatsubaki publishes no tattoo rule. It takes only two parties a night, and all four of its baths, two open-air and two indoor family baths, are taken privately and locked from inside, so a tattooed guest never shares one.
Tabi no Yado Yamatsubaki tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityYama no Yado Kanjigoku Ryokan
山の宿 寒の地獄旅館
Kanjigoku Ryokan publishes no tattoo rule. Its three half-open-air family baths, of cypress, rock and cut stone, are for staying guests and free to use whenever they are open, so a tattooed guest can bathe privately.
Yama no Yado Kanjigoku Ryokan tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityYamaai no Yado Kiyasuya
山あいの宿 喜安屋
Kiyasuya publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its ten detached rooms has its own open-air bath of the spring, and staying guests also have two private open-air baths and two family baths free, so a tattooed guest has no reason to use the shared baths.
Yamaai no Yado Kiyasuya tattoo policy → · All Kuju and Nagayu →
Check availabilityYuya Amane
湯屋 天音
Yuya Amane publishes no tattoo rule. Eight of its baths are fully private rooms rented by the time slot, each with its own indoor and outdoor tub and parking by the door, so a tattooed bather never passes through the shared bath.
Kurokawa Onsen
Fujiya
ふじ屋
The inn says its iron-rich spring turns white or brown with the weather and the water temperature.
Check availabilityFumoto Ryokan and the Rokuan annex
ふもと旅館＆別館 麓庵
Every bath runs on the inn’s own spring, with no water added, no heating, no recirculation and no disinfectant.
Fumoto Ryokan and the Rokuan annex tattoo policy → · All Kurokawa Onsen →
Check availabilityGenryu no Yado Hozantei
源流の宿 帆山亭
The room baths are free-flowing from the inn’s own source, so they’re hot-spring water at any hour of your stay.
Genryu no Yado Hozantei tattoo policy → · All Kurokawa Onsen →
Check availabilityKounoyu
こうの湯
Each room bath is filled free-flowing from the spring and is yours alone for the stay.
Check availabilityKurokawa-so
黒川荘
Each turn lasts 50 minutes, and the inn doesn’t take family-bath bookings by phone.
Check availabilityOkyakuya
歴史の宿 御客屋
Both private baths have their own changing room and hold two adults.
Check availabilityOyado Noshiyu
お宿 のし湯
The owners built the baths themselves, digging and hauling the stones, starting with the bathhouse in 1993.
Check availabilityRyokan Misato
和風旅館 美里
The inn says its sulfur spring changes color by itself, through clear, pale blue, emerald green and milky white.
Check availabilityRyokan Nanjoen
旅館 南城苑
Hikari is built of stone and Hana of cypress, and each fits about two people.
Check availabilityRyokan Okunoyu
旅館 奥の湯
The spring comes out at 95°C (203°F), and every bath is free-flowing.
Check availabilityRyokan Yamanoyu
旅館 やまの湯
Rooms have no bath of their own, so the private baths are the way to bathe alone.
Check availabilitySato no Yu Waraku
里の湯 和らく
Each room takes two guests, aged 13 or older.
Check availabilityShinmeikan
山の宿 新明館
Kaze-no-yu, the open-air private bath in the forest, is for staying guests only.
Check availabilityYamabiko Ryokan
やまびこ旅館
Day visitors are admitted to the open-air baths only, so the private baths stay with the inn’s guests.
Check availabilityYukyo no Hibiki Yusai
湯峡の響き 優彩
Sugi-no-yu is built of local Oguni cedar and is accessible.
Yukyo no Hibiki Yusai tattoo policy → · All Kurokawa Onsen →
Check availabilityYumerindo
夢龍胆
The rule is on the inn’s hot-spring page, and the inn recommends the private baths even for a point tattoo.
Check availabilityKusatsu Onsen
Ekinariya
草津温泉 益成屋旅館
The ryokan's pages describe the six private baths and the communal hinoki baths, and carry no tattoo rule for the communal ones. Four private baths are tiled on the Yubatake source, two are cypress on the Shirahata source.
Check availabilityHanaingen
お豆の小宿 花いんげん
The inn's own bath page says all four private baths are free and first come, first served.
Check availabilityHinokitei Bokusui
草津温泉 ひのき亣 牧水
The inn's own site says it removed its shared bath in 2022 and replaced it with three private baths.
Check availabilityKanemidori
昔心の宿 金みどり
The ryokan's own site publishes no tattoo policy for its shared baths.
Check availabilityKei
草津温泉 炯-kei-
The ryokan publishes no tattoo rule. Guests may also use the large bath at its sister inn, Kanemidori, where the same silence applies, so don't count on that one.
Check availabilityKindai Pension
きんだいペンション
No tattoo policy is published, and there's no large bath for one to apply to.
Check availabilityKusatsu Onsen Eidaya
草津温泉宿 永田屋
The inn's own site says every bath is a free private bath.
Check availabilityLa Vista Kusatsu Hills
ラビスタ草津ヒルズ
The hotel's own FAQ closes the large bath to tattoos and, in the same answer, points to the private baths and the room bath. No size limit applies, because none of it is shared.
La Vista Kusatsu Hills tattoo policy → · All Kusatsu Onsen →
Check availabilityYubatake Souan
湯畑草莴
The inn's own site describes the room baths, fed straight from the Yubatake.
Check availabilityKyoto area
Kyoto Yunohana Onsen Sumiya Kihoan
京都 湯の花温泉 すみや亀峰菴
A bath you book by the slot and take by yourself: the reservable open-air bath, which the ryokan calls the hidden bath in the hills, is two or three minutes up a gravel path from the guest wing, and costs ¥3,000 plus tax for forty-five minutes at one of ten set times through the day. Several rooms have an open-air bath of their own instead. Nothing to cover either way.
Kyoto Yunohana Onsen Sumiya Kihoan tattoo policy → · All Kyoto area →
Check availabilityMatsumoto
Bettei Ikka
別亭一花
Bettei Ikka publishes no tattoo rule. It has one private family bath in cypress, with an indoor tub and an open-air tub, booked through the inn for ¥3,300 and discounted or free on its stay plans. A tattooed guest can reserve that and skip the shared bath.
Check availabilityFujinoyu
富士乃湯
Fujinoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Its private bath, Fuji, is free to every staying guest with no booking: when the sign on the door reads vacant you turn it over and go in. Three special rooms also have their own half-open-air spring bath, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared baths.
Check availabilityHigashi Ishikawa Ryokan
東石川旅館
Higashi Ishikawa publishes no tattoo rule. Its private open-air bath, a Kiso cypress tub fed straight from the source, is free to staying guests whenever it is empty, for up to 45 minutes a turn. A tattooed guest can bathe there and leave the shared baths alone.
Check availabilityHotel New Kotobuki
ホテルニューことぶき
Hotel New Kotobuki publishes no tattoo rule. It rents a private open-air bath, Kotobuki-an, for 40 minutes to staying guests and for 50 minutes to day visitors, and it has rooms with their own open-air spring bath, so a tattooed guest never has to use the shared baths.
Check availabilityHotel Tamanoyu
ホテル玉之湯
Hotel Tamanoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests get 40 minutes free in one of three private open-air baths, booked at the front desk after check-in, and a few rooms have their own open-air bath, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared baths. Day visitors can rent a private bath by the hour too.
Check availabilityIzumiso
和泉荘
Izumiso refuses tattoos in its baths. The notice sits with the day-use bathing terms on its hot spring page and says people with tattoos cannot use the baths, cover seals included. The way to bathe here is to book one of the two special rooms, each with its own open-air spring bath and a cypress indoor bath. The inn has no reservable private bath.
Check availabilityKikunoyu
菊之湯
Kikunoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Its guest rooms come with their own indoor bath filled with the hot spring, three ground-floor room types in cypress, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the room. The inn has no reservable private bath.
Check availabilityKikyotei Yumotoya
帰郷亭ゆもとや
Yumotoya publishes no tattoo rule. Its sixth-floor view bath, Nagomi, is a private bath that costs nothing and takes no reservation: when it is empty you go in and lock the door from the inside, at any hour. A tattooed guest can bathe there and skip the two shared bath halls.
Check availabilityMatsumoto Jujo: Matsumoto Honbako and Koyanagi
松本十帖 松本本箱・小柳
Matsumoto Jujo publishes no tattoo rule. Every room type in both of its hotels is sold with its own open-air bath filled with Asama's spring water, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the room. The one shared bath, Koyanagi-no-yu, is a small half-open-air tub for staying guests and is not a private bath.
Matsumoto Jujo: Matsumoto Honbako and Koyanagi tattoo policy → · All Matsumoto →
Check availabilityOiwakeya Ryokan
追分屋旅館
Oiwakeya publishes no tattoo rule. It rents a separate private bath house, Tsuji-no-hana, by the 45 minutes, and its detached room Yuraku-tei has its own indoor and open-air spring baths, so a tattooed guest never has to use the shared baths.
Check availabilityOnyado Ishikawa
御宿 石川
Onyado Ishikawa publishes no tattoo rule. It takes three parties a day and marks both of its baths as available for private use until 10 p.m., so a tattooed guest can bathe alone.
Check availabilityRyokan Sugimoto
旅館すぎもと
Ryokan Sugimoto publishes no tattoo rule. Its private cypress bath is free, open around the clock and taken without booking by whoever arrives first, so a tattooed guest can bathe there and skip the shared baths.
Check availabilitySenjuro Sakaenoyu
仙聚樓 栄の湯
Sakaenoyu publishes no tattoo rule. Besides its men's and women's baths it has one private family bath that couples and families use on their own, so a tattooed guest can ask for that. The inn prints no fee or time limit for it; ask when you book.
Check availabilityShoho
美ヶ原温泉 翔峰
Shoho publishes no tattoo rule. Staying guests can reserve one of three private baths for 60 minutes, and several room types have their own spring-fed bath, so a tattooed guest never has to use the shared baths.
Check availabilityShunsai Tsuki no Shizuka
旬彩 月の静香
Tsuki no Shizuka publishes no tattoo rule. Every room in its new wing has its own cypress tub filled with spring water, and two annex rooms have a spring bath too, so a tattooed guest who books one of those never has to use the shared baths.
Check availabilityYuyado Izumiya Zenbe
湯宿 和泉屋善兵衛
Izumiya Zenbe publishes no tattoo rule. Every room plan includes 40 minutes in one of its three private baths, booked at check-in, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared indoor bath.
Check availabilityonsen hotel OMOTO
OMOTO publishes no tattoo rule. It has a fully enclosed private cypress bath, ¥2,200 for 45 minutes, booked by time slot at check-in, and it takes advance bookings from guests who cannot use the large baths. One top-floor corner room has its own open-air bath with free-flowing spring water.
Check availabilityMisasa Onsen
Blancart Misasa
健康づくりの宿 ブランナールみささ
Blancart publishes nothing on tattoos for its large bath and riverside open-air bath.
Check availabilityHashizuya
木造りの宿 橋津屋
Hashizuya says nothing about tattoos, so don't count on the shared baths.
Check availabilityIwayu
旬彩の宿 いわゆ
Iwayu has no published tattoo rule for its two large baths.
Note: The Take-no-yado page carries a maintenance notice. Ask the inn before you book it.
Check availabilityIzanro Iwasaki
依山楼 岩崎
Izanro publishes no tattoo rule for its two big bath halls, Hidari-no-yu and Migi-no-yu. Its rooms page says every open-air room's tub is source flow.
Check availabilityMansuirou
三朝薬師の湯 万翆楼
Mansuirou’s FAQ refuses tattoos of any size or place in the large bath and points to the private bath, booked ahead.
Check availabilityMisasa Royal Hotel
三朝ロイヤルホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for the garden bath and the big open-air bath.
Check availabilityMisasakan
三朝館
The rule is in the inn's own FAQ.
Check availabilityRyokan Ohashi
旅館大橋
Nothing on the Ohashi site mentions tattoos, so don't count on the shared baths.
Check availabilitySeiryuso
山峡露天 清流荘
No tattoo rule appears on the Seiryuso site, so don't count on the shared baths.
Check availabilityYuraku
かがり火の宿 有楽
No tattoo rule is published for the two large baths.
Check availabilityMiyajima
Aki Grand Hotel & Spa
安芸グランドホテル
The two indoor baths, Miyabi and Raku, are shared and swap between men and women through the day. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for them.
Check availabilityHotel Kikunoya
ホテル菊乃家
Kikunoya publishes no tattoo rule on its site, so don’t take the silence as permission for the large bath.
Check availabilityItsukushima Iroha
厳島いろは
Iroha publishes no tattoo rule on its site, which has no FAQ and no English pages, so don’t take the silence as permission for the large bath.
Check availabilityIwaso
岩惣
Iwaso publishes no tattoo rule anywhere on its site, in either language, so don't take the silence as permission for the two large baths.
Check availabilityJukeiso
聚景荘
Jukeiso publishes no tattoo rule on its site, so don’t take the silence as permission for its two indoor baths.
Check availabilityLiVEMAX RESORT Miyahama Ocean View
リブマックスリゾート宮浜温泉 Ocean
The hotel’s information page refuses bathing by anyone with tattoos, cover stickers and body paint included. The sentence is written for the shared hot-spring baths and doesn’t mention the tubs in the rooms.
LiVEMAX RESORT Miyahama Ocean View tattoo policy → · All Miyajima →
Check availabilityMiyahama Grand Hotel
湯の宿 宮浜グランドホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its rooftop and ground-floor baths, which take day visitors as well as guests. Don't read the silence as a yes.
Check availabilityMiyajima Grand Hotel Arimoto
宮島グランドホテル有もと
The rule is in the hotel's own Q&A, which also asks guests not to bathe in swimsuits.
Miyajima Grand Hotel Arimoto tattoo policy → · All Miyajima →
Check availabilityMiyajima Hanare no Yado IBUKU
宮島離れの宿 IBUKU
The inn states that it pipes the spring into every guest room. It publishes no tattoo rule, and with no shared bath, it doesn't need one.
Miyajima Hanare no Yado IBUKU tattoo policy → · All Miyajima →
Check availabilityMiyajima Hotel Makoto
宮島ホテルまこと
Makoto publishes no tattoo rule anywhere on its site, so don’t take the silence as permission for the two large baths.
Check availabilitySekitei
庭園の宿 石亭
The inn's fact sheet lists an open-air, half-open-air or karasu-buro tub in every room.
Check availabilityMiyazaki coast
Hinata no Yado Nichinan Miyazaki
天然温泉 ひなたの宿 日南宮崎
No tattoo rule is published. The private answers are the family bath Nagomi-no-yu, a bath rented to one party with picture windows over the town, and three premium rooms with their own open-air hot spring bath. The hotel does not print the family bath’s price or hours.
Hinata no Yado Nichinan Miyazaki tattoo policy → · All Miyazaki coast →
Check availabilityHonoka no Yu Ibii
日南温泉 貸切露天風呂 ほのかの湯 伊比井店
No tattoo rule is published. The shop has only private rooms, each with its own tub and outdoor deck and rented to one party by the clock, so nobody shares a bath.
Honoka no Yu Kaeda
天然貸切温泉 ほのかの湯 加江田店
No tattoo rule is published. Every bath here is a private room rented to one party by the clock, so there is no shared tub to be turned away from.
Hotel Nichinan Kitago Resort
ホテル日南北郷リゾート
No tattoo rule is published. The hotel has one family bath, reservation only, open 3 to 10 p.m. and sold by the hour: ¥2,700 for a day visitor, and a paid hour for staying guests whose price the page does not print.
Hotel Nichinan Kitago Resort tattoo policy → · All Miyazaki coast →
Check availabilityKigan no Yado Aoshima Jizoan
「祈願の宿」青島・地蔵庵
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Its hot spring is used only as private baths: two rooms, Takara-yu and the rock bath, each taken by one party for 60 minutes, so there is no shared tub at all. The detached special room also has its own open-air and indoor bath.
Kigan no Yado Aoshima Jizoan tattoo policy → · All Miyazaki coast →
Check availabilityNazuna Obi Onsen Resort
Nazuna 飫肥 城下町温泉
No tattoo rule is published. There is no shared bath: all five rooms have their own open-air bath fed with source-flowing Kitago hot spring, so bathing is private by design.
Nazuna Obi Onsen Resort tattoo policy → · All Miyazaki coast →
Check availabilityNemunohana
北郷 音色香の季 合歓のはな
No tattoo rule is published. There is no shared bath: each of the ten detached villas has its own open-air rock bath of Kitago spring water in its garden, so a tattooed guest bathes alone.
Check availabilityPhoenix Seagaia Ocean Tower, formerly Sheraton Grande Ocean Resort
フェニックス・シーガイア・オーシャン・タワー
The Shosenkyu bath page says that, as a rule, exposed tattoos are refused in the shared baths. The answer is the two private baths for hotel guests, Hanare-yu and Oyunomiya, which are booked ahead and used by one party at a time; their pages set no tattoo rule.
Phoenix Seagaia Ocean Tower, formerly Sheraton Grande Ocean Resort tattoo policy → · All Miyazaki coast →
Check availabilitySun Cherry Kitago
サンチェリーきたごう
The city publishes no tattoo rule for the bathhouse. The private answer is its three family baths, each with an indoor and an outdoor tub, rented for an hour at ¥2,500 and booked by phone.
Myoko
Akakura Hotel
赤倉ホテル
Every bath in the hotel is fully free-flowing Akakura water, piped from Kita-Jigokudani on Mount Myoko.
Check availabilityAkakura Kanko Hotel
赤倉観光ホテル
The private bath is free for staying guests and runs on the same free-flowing sulfur spring as the large bath.
Check availabilityEho Ryokan
エホー旅館
The two indoor baths, one for men and one for women, run on free-flowing Akakura water around the clock.
Check availabilityKofukan
妙高・山里の湯宿 香風館
KAI is the inn’s old Otome-no-yu, named in 1954 by the painter Kosugi Hoan and rebuilt with a window on the mountains.
Check availabilityRyokan Okayama
旅館おかやま
All the inn’s baths run on Akakura water from Mount Myoko, free-flowing with no water added and no recirculation.
Check availabilityNagato-Yumoto Onsen
Bettei Otozure
別邸 音信
The operator publishes no tattoo rule for its spa wing, the Grande Spa.
Check availabilityOtanisanso
大谷山荘
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath, lying bath, sauna or open-air bath.
Check availabilityYumoto Kanko Hotel Saikyo
湯本観光ホテル西京
Saikyo publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath, open-air bath, bubble bath or sauna.
Yumoto Kanko Hotel Saikyo tattoo policy → · All Nagato-Yumoto Onsen →
Check availabilityNaruko Onsen
Genzo-no-yu Naruko Kanko Hotel
源蔵の湯 鳴子観光ホテル
The private baths are for overnight guests only; the day-use ticket covers just the shared baths.
Genzo-no-yu Naruko Kanko Hotel tattoo policy → · All Naruko Onsen →
Check availabilityNaruko Fuga
大人の隠れ家 鳴子風雅
The seal rule is in the Relo Hotels & Resorts FAQ, which covers Fuga. It applies to the open-air baths too.
Check availabilityNaruko Hotel
名湯の宿 鳴子ホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its large baths. Kokeshi-no-yu is taken by one group at a time.
Check availabilityNaruko Onsen Yumoto Kissho
鳴子温泉 湯元 吉祥
The rule is in the hotel’s own FAQ, which points guests to the private baths and the room baths.
Naruko Onsen Yumoto Kissho tattoo policy → · All Naruko Onsen →
Check availabilityNaruko Waseda Sajiki-yu
鳴子・早稲田桟敷湯
Osaki City owns the bathhouse, and neither it nor the operator publishes a tattoo rule for the shared baths.
Naruko Waseda Sajiki-yu tattoo policy → · All Naruko Onsen →
Ryokan Kanshichiyu
旅館 勘七湯
The small bath has a men’s side and a women’s side, and each is a shared bath whenever nobody has taken it privately.
Check availabilityRyokan Ohnuma
百年ゆ宿 旅館大沼
Akari-no-yu, a small indoor private bath on the inn’s own spring, is one of the free ones.
Check availabilityTakuhide
名湯秘湯うなぎ湯の宿 旬樹庵 琢ひで
Every other bath at the inn is shared, including a mixed open-air bath.
Check availabilityNaruto and Tokushima
Naruto Grand Hotel Kaigetsu
鳴門グランドホテル海月
The hotel says nothing about tattoos for its 8th-floor bath.
Note: The hotel never calls its water a hot spring and publishes no analysis, so treat the view-bath rooms as ordinary heated water.
Naruto Grand Hotel Kaigetsu tattoo policy → · All Naruto and Tokushima →
Check availabilityResort Hotel Moana Coast
リゾートホテル モアナコースト
The hotel runs no shared bath and publishes no tattoo rule.
Note: The hotel makes no hot spring claim for the jet tubs on its terraces, so treat the water as ordinary heated water.
Resort Hotel Moana Coast tattoo policy → · All Naruto and Tokushima →
Check availabilityNasu Onsen
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.
Check availabilityForest 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.
Forest Resort Hotel Green Pearl Nasu tattoo policy → · All Nasu Onsen →
Check availabilityHotel 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.
Check availabilityHotel 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.
Hotel Shiki no Yakata Nasu tattoo policy → · All Nasu Onsen →
Check availabilityKokoro 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.
Check availabilityMatsukawaya 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.
Matsukawaya Nasu Kogen Hotel tattoo policy → · All Nasu Onsen →
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.
Check availabilityNasu 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.
Check availabilityNasu 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.
Check availabilityNasu 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.
Nasu Kogen no Yado Sansuikaku tattoo policy → · All Nasu Onsen →
Check availabilityNasu 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.
Check availabilityNasu 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.
Nasu Onsen Shinshun no Kago Hewitt Resort tattoo policy → · All Nasu Onsen →
Check availabilityRosewood 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.
Check availabilityRyokan 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.
Check availabilityTHE 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.
Check availabilityWakaki 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.
Check availabilityWellness 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.
Check availabilityNikko
Fufu Nikko
ふふ 日光
The ryokan’s FAQ refuses tattoos in the communal bath, fashion and religious ones included. The suite baths are yours alone.
Check availabilityNiseko
AYA Niseko
綾ニセコ
The water is drawn from more than 700 meters (2,300 ft) below Hirafu.
Check availabilityKi Niseko
木ニセコ
The private rooms run on the same water as the shared baths, a spring at the foot of Mount Niseko Annupuri that only this hotel uses.
Check availabilityNiseko Ekimae Onsen Kira no Yu
ニセコ駅前温泉 綺羅乃湯
The bathhouse sets the small bath aside for small groups who want privacy.
Niseko Ekimae Onsen Kira no Yu tattoo policy → · All Niseko →
Park Hyatt Niseko Hanazono
パークハイアット ニセコ HANAZONO
The Hanazono resort, where the hotel stands, describes a private natural hot spring in every Signature Suite.
Check availabilitySetsu Niseko
雪ニセコ
Both the public onsen and the private rooms are for hotel guests only.
Check availabilitySkye Niseko
スカイニセコ
The private rooms and the shared onsen both run on the hotel’s own spring, Skye no Yu, and neither is open to day visitors.
Check availabilityThe Vale Niseko
ザ・ヴェイル・ニセコ
The shared onsen opens only from December 20 to April 15.
Check availabilityTsuruga Bessou Moku no Sho
ニセコ昆布温泉 鶴雅別荘 杢の抄
The rule is in the ryokan’s Japanese FAQ, and it covers irezumi (traditional Japanese tattoos) and tattoos alike.
Check availabilityYumoto Niseko Prince Hotel Hirafutei
湯元ニセコプリンスホテル ひらふ亭
The room baths draw the same spring as the large baths.
Yumoto Niseko Prince Hotel Hirafutei tattoo policy → · All Niseko →
Check availabilityZaborin
坐忘林
The baths are free-flowing, from the ryokan’s own spring almost a kilometer (0.6 mi) underground, and the water arrives naturally at bathing temperature.
Check availabilityNoboribetsu Onsen
Bourou NOGUCHI Noboribetsu
望楼NOGUCHI登別
The room baths are filled from the hotel’s own source of milky sulfur water.
Bourou NOGUCHI Noboribetsu tattoo policy → · All Noboribetsu Onsen →
Check availabilityHotel Mahoroba
ホテルまほろば
Every suite has a marble open-air tub filled with the hotel’s milky sulfur spring.
Check availabilityHotel Yumoto Noboribetsu
ホテルゆもと登別
The hotel says it was the first in the Noboribetsu district to put natural hot-spring water and a self-löyly sauna in a guest room.
Hotel Yumoto Noboribetsu tattoo policy → · All Noboribetsu Onsen →
Check availabilityNoboribetsu Grand Hotel
登別グランドホテル
The private bath takes up to four people and runs on free-flowing salt-spring water.
Noboribetsu Grand Hotel tattoo policy → · All Noboribetsu Onsen →
Check availabilityNoboribetsu Manseikaku
登別万世閣
The refusal also names stick-on tattoos and body paint, and it’s printed on the hotel’s bath, sauna, day-bathing and FAQ pages and on its English site.
Noboribetsu Manseikaku tattoo policy → · All Noboribetsu Onsen →
Check availabilityNoboribetsu Onsenkyo Takinoya
登別温泉郷 滝乃家
The inn has 30 rooms, and only the three Western rooms have no bath of their own.
Noboribetsu Onsenkyo Takinoya tattoo policy → · All Noboribetsu Onsen →
Check availabilityNoboribetsu Sekisuitei
登別石水亭
The hotel allows a bathing garment only for scars from surgery or skin grafts, and guests bring their own.
Noboribetsu Sekisuitei tattoo policy → · All Noboribetsu Onsen →
Check availabilityRyotei Hanayura
旅亭 花ゆら
Twenty-seven of the inn’s 37 rooms have an open-air bath.
Check availabilityTakinoya Bekkan Tamanoyu
滝乃家別館 玉乃湯
The inn sets the private bath aside for families and couples to use on their own.
Takinoya Bekkan Tamanoyu tattoo policy → · All Noboribetsu Onsen →
Check availabilityNozawa Onsen
Address Nozawa
アドレス野沢
Nozawa Hospitality, which runs the building, publishes no tattoo rule. The basement onsen is never shared with other guests while you use it.
Check availabilityHimecho@Yasushi
姫町@寧
Nozawa Hospitality lists the soaking bath as the house’s private bath (kazoku-buro), used only by the group renting the house.
Check availabilityKawaichiya Ryokan
河一屋旅館
The room baths run on Shin-yu, the village spring that turns milky white, emerald green or clear with the weather.
Check availabilityKawamotoya
かわもとや
Nozawa Hospitality, which runs the building, publishes no tattoo rule.
Check availabilityMura no Hotel Sumiyoshiya
村のホテル 住吉屋
The private bath runs free-flowing on a different spring of the inn’s own from the one in its shared bath.
Note: The two room baths in the annex are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The inn’s FAQ says so.
Mura no Hotel Sumiyoshiya tattoo policy → · All Nozawa Onsen →
Check availabilityNozawa Grand Hotel
野沢グランドホテル
The room open-air baths and the private bath draw on Takenoshi-gama, one of the five boiling vents of Ogama, free-flowing.
Check availabilityNozawa Onsen Hotel
野沢温泉ホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo policy. Its own spring feeds every bath in the building, free-flowing.
Check availabilityOyado Mikawaya
お宿 三河屋
The inn has one men’s and one women’s bath, both small enough that it lets guests use them privately.
Check availabilityResidence Yasushi
レジデンス@寧
The hotel’s English etiquette page says the old link between tattoos and the yakuza has faded, though some older bathers at the public bathhouses may still stare.
Check availabilityRyokan Sakaya
旅館さかや
No tattoo rule appears on the inn’s Japanese or English site. Matsu-no-yu is the only bath kept for one party at a time.
Check availabilityShirakaba
やすらぎの宿 白樺
The inn publishes nothing on tattoos. The private bath is sold by the slot on the inn’s own TableCheck booking page, from one person.
Check availabilityNyuto Onsen
Kuroyu Onsen
黒湯温泉
Each private bath, Kame-no-Yu and Tamahada-no-Yu, has an indoor tub and a pounding-water spout.
Check availabilityMagoroku Onsen Rokuan
孫六温泉 六庵
Everyone wears a bathing garment in the mixed baths, tattoo or not.
Check availabilityTaenoyu
乳頭温泉郷 妙乃湯
The private bath runs on Gin-no-Yu, the inn’s clear, soft silver spring.
Check availabilityTsurunoyu Bekkan Yamanoyado
鶴の湯温泉 別館 山の宿
All three of the inn’s baths run on fully free-flowing water piped down from Tsurunoyu’s milky Shiroyu spring.
Tsurunoyu Bekkan Yamanoyado tattoo policy → · All Nyuto Onsen →
Check availabilityOkuhida Onsen
Hodakaso Yamano Hotel
穂高荘 山のホテル
No tattoo rule is published. The mixed open-air bath requires a bathing gown for everyone, and three private baths are rented at check-in.
Check availabilityKutsuroginoya Yuu
寛ぎの舎 游
The site carries no tattoo rule. Book one of the four rooms with an open-air bath, or the private open-air bath.
Check availabilityKyomu no Yado Yamaboshi
郷夢の宿 山ぼうし
Yamaboshi publishes no tattoo rule. Book a room with its own semi-open-air bath, or use the two free private open-air baths.
Kyomu no Yado Yamaboshi tattoo policy → · All Okuhida Onsen →
Check availabilityMiyama Ouan
匠の宿 深山桜庵
The FAQ refuses tattoos in the large bath and, in the same answer, sends tattooed guests to the four free private baths or the bath in their room.
Check availabilityNakamurakan
中村館
Nakamurakan publishes no tattoo rule. Book one of its three private open-air baths after check-in.
Check availabilityNakaodaira
山の旅舎 中尾平
Every bath is private, and the English bath page says tattoos are therefore not a concern.
Check availabilityOkuhida Garden Hotel Yakedake
奥飛騨ガーデンホテル焼岳
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule. In summer, book one of its two private open-air baths on the day; they’re for staying guests only. The rest of the year the only private bath is the one in your room, and it isn’t hot spring water.
Note: The large bath is heated water and the indoor baths aren’t hot spring water. The hotel says so in its FAQ.
Okuhida Garden Hotel Yakedake tattoo policy → · All Okuhida Onsen →
Check availabilityOnyado Hisui
御宿 飛水
Hisui publishes no tattoo rule. Its three private open-air baths are first come: turn the plate at the door and go in.
Check availabilityRyokan Gizan
旅館 岐山
Gizan publishes no tattoo rule. Its four private open-air baths are free around the clock with no booking.
Check availabilityRyokan Yakenoyu
旅館 焼乃湯
Tattoos are asked to stay out of the indoor baths, and the inn says its three private open-air baths are open to anyone.
Check availabilityTabist Kazeyuki
風雪
No tattoo rule is published. Take one of the four free private baths, two indoor and two open-air, rather than the shared bath.
Check availabilityTsuyukusa
旅荘つゆくさ
There’s no men’s or women’s bath, only three private baths, and no tattoo rule is published.
Check availabilityYumoto Choza
湯元 長座
Choza publishes no tattoo rule. Three free private baths with open-air pools need no booking, and five detached private open-air baths stand outside.
Check availabilityYunohirakan
湯の平館
No tattoo rule is published. The three private open-air baths are free and unlimited for guests, taken in turn.
Check availabilityOtaru and Asarigawa
Asarigawa Onsen Hotel
朝里川温泉ホテル
Asarigawa Onsen’s tourism association lists the hotel’s day-use bath as closed to tattooed bathers, and the hotel publishes no tattoo rule of its own.
Asarigawa Onsen Hotel tattoo policy → · All Otaru and Asarigawa →
Check availabilityOtaru Asari Classe Hotel
小樽朝里クラッセホテル
Asarigawa Onsen’s tourism association lists the hotel’s day-use bath as closed to tattooed bathers, and the hotel publishes no tattoo rule of its own.
Otaru Asari Classe Hotel tattoo policy → · All Otaru and Asarigawa →
Check availabilityOtaru Kourakuen
おたる 宏楽園
The rule is in the inn’s FAQ and applies to fashion and religious tattoos alike.
Check availabilityOtaru Retreat Kuramure by Onko Chishin
小樽リトリート 蔵群
The hot spring is for staying guests only, with no day bathing.
Otaru Retreat Kuramure by Onko Chishin tattoo policy → · All Otaru and Asarigawa →
Check availabilityWinkel Village
ウィンケルビレッジ
The plain rental cottages and the dog cottage have no spring bath, so book a condominium.
Check availabilitySapporo area
Dansetsu Sapporo
暖雪 札幌
Four room types have a bathroom with a washing area, separate from the toilet.
Check availabilitySenami Onsen
Senami Grand Hotel Haginoya
瀬波グランドホテル はぎのや
Haginoya publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Its answer is the room: fifteen suites and rooms each have an open-air tub on the terrace filled with the hot spring, which the hotel recirculates and tops up with water to hold a comfortable heat.
Senami Grand Hotel Haginoya tattoo policy → · All Senami Onsen →
Check availabilitySenami Hamanasuso
瀬波はまなす荘
Hamanasuso publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. The way to bathe alone is to book one of its eight rooms with a tub of their own: six with an open-air bath on the balcony and two Japanese-modern special rooms with an indoor bath, all filled, the lodge says, with water from the source.
Check availabilityTaikanso Senami no Yu
大観荘せなみの湯
Taikanso refuses its large baths to anyone with a tattoo, whatever the size or place on the body, and sends tattooed guests to its private bath instead. That bath pairs an indoor tub with an open-air rock pool, costs ¥5,500 for 50 minutes, and is booked on the day only, from 8 a.m. The open-air baths in the Taikan wing rooms take water straight from the spring.
Check availabilityTsubaki no Yado Yoshidaya
椿の宿 吉田や
Yoshidaya publishes no tattoo rule. It gives every staying guest two private baths for free, the open-air Hinoki-no-yu and the indoor family bath Tsubaki-no-yu, with no booking: if the door is unlocked, go in and lock it behind you. Six of its fifteen rooms also have a tub of their own filled with the spring.
Tsubaki no Yado Yoshidaya tattoo policy → · All Senami Onsen →
Check availabilitySendai area
Komatsukan Kofutei
小松館 好風亭
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. What it does offer is a private open-air bath over the bay, Asahimi-no-yu, at ¥2,000 a session, and five rooms with their own view bath of hot spring water. Either one keeps the question out of the shared bath.
Check availabilityMatsushima Century Hotel
松島センチュリーホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. It does sell a way around them: the private family bath Nagomi, 45 minutes for ¥3,300, and eight rooms in its Premium Center Wing whose open-air tubs the hotel fills with 100% Matsushima spring water.
Matsushima Century Hotel tattoo policy → · All Sendai area →
Check availabilityMatsushima Ichinobo
松島一の坊
Ichinobo refuses tattoos in all its shared baths, the open-air ones included, even under a cover seal, and tells tattooed guests to bathe in their room instead. Three room types have a view bath of their own, one of them half open-air. The hotel says plainly that those room tubs are heated tap water, not hot spring.
Check availabilityLake Shikotsu
Ame no Hi to Yuyake
支笏湖 雨ノ日と夕やけ
Four of the six rooms have a jacuzzi, but it isn’t hot-spring water.
Note: The jacuzzi in the Standard and Deluxe rooms is ordinary heated water, not hot spring water.
Check availabilityLake Shikotsu Tsuruga Bessou Ao no Za
しこつ湖鶴雅別荘 碧の座
The inn’s FAQ says it has no large bath, only the baths in the rooms.
Lake Shikotsu Tsuruga Bessou Ao no Za tattoo policy → · All Lake Shikotsu →
Check availabilityLake Shikotsu Tsuruga Resort Spa Mizu no Uta
しこつ湖鶴雅リゾートスパ 水の謌
The refusal in the hotel’s FAQ also covers stick-on tattoos.
Lake Shikotsu Tsuruga Resort Spa Mizu no Uta tattoo policy → · All Lake Shikotsu →
Check availabilityShikotsuko Daiichi Hotel Suizantei
支笏湖第一寶亭留 翠山亭
The inn describes the private open-air bath as a completely private space for staying guests only.
Shikotsuko Daiichi Hotel Suizantei tattoo policy → · All Lake Shikotsu →
Check availabilityShimoda
Daichi-no-Irodori Kagetsutei
大地の彩 花月亭
The inn's site carries no tattoo rule, so treat the shared baths as unknown.
Daichi-no-Irodori Kagetsutei tattoo policy → · All Shimoda →
Check availabilityHotel Izukyu
ホテル伊豆急
No tattoo rule appears on the hotel's site. Its FAQ names the reservable private bath and says some facilities need booking ahead.
Note: The bath in the guest rooms is not hot spring water; the hotel says so. Its reservable private bath and the open-air baths are on the spring, diluted and heated.
Check availabilityHotel Yamadaya
ホテル山田屋
No tattoo rule appears on the inn's site, so don't count on the two large baths and the two garden open-air baths.
Check availabilityKanaya Ryokan
金谷旅館
The inn publishes a reservable bath, Issen-yu, which would answer the question on structure alone, and it says nothing about tattoos anywhere on its site. The reason it is not a listing is money, not policy: Kanaya sells its rooms through Rakuten, Jalan and Ikyu and appears on neither Booking.com nor Agoda, so there is no link this site can use. Day-use bathing at ¥1,000 is open to anyone who turns up, with the same silence on tattoos.
Check availabilityKannon Onsen
観音温泉
The estate's site says nothing about tattoos, so don't count on the shared bathhouses.
Check availabilityKurofune Hotel
黒船ホテル
The hotel's site says nothing about tattoos, so treat the shared baths as undecided.
Check availabilityNonohanatei Komurasaki
野の花亭 こむらさき
The operator publishes no tattoo rule. Its rooms page lists the bath in each of the five rooms.
Check availabilitySatoyama-no-Bettei Shimoda Central Hotel
里山の別邸 下田セントラルホテル
The hotel's own FAQ refuses tattooed guests in the large bath, fashion tattoos included, and says there's no private bath to reserve.
Satoyama-no-Bettei Shimoda Central Hotel tattoo policy → · All Shimoda →
Check availabilitySeiryuso
清流荘
Nothing on the inn's site mentions tattoos.
Check availabilityShimoda Juraku Hotel
下田聚楽ホテル
The hotel's site carries no tattoo rule, so the shared stone and cypress baths are unresolved.
Check availabilityShimoda View Hotel
下田ビューホテル
The hotel's site carries no tattoo rule, so the four shared baths aren't a safe bet.
Check availabilityShimoda Yamatokan
下田大和館
The hotel's own summer information page refuses tattooed guests, fashion tattoos included, in the large baths, the open-air baths and the summer pool. Nothing on the site suggests a seal changes that.
Check availabilityShirahama
Alaise de Bale Shirahama
アレーズド・バレ SHIRAHAMA
The family bath is a paid private bath, ¥2,000 before tax for 45 minutes, by time slot from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. You apply on the day of your stay, first come first served. The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for the large bath.
Check availabilityAuberge South Terrace
オーベルジュ サウステラス
One private bath, with an indoor tub and an open-air one fed from the source, is reserved at ¥3,300 for 60 minutes. The fee went up from ¥1,500 on October 1, 2026. The auberge publishes no tattoo policy for the men’s and women’s large baths.
Check availabilityBlanchette Nanki-Shirahama
ブランシェット南紀白浜
Each villa unit has a private bath on Shirahama spring water, and the resort’s pages describe no shared bath. It publishes no tattoo policy.
Blanchette Nanki-Shirahama tattoo policy → · All Shirahama →
Check availabilityChoseian
源泉かけ流し湯宿 長生庵
The inn opens its private bath, Tsubo-yu, free to every staying guest for an hour at a time. You tell the inn the hour you want, and it takes the booking ahead too. It publishes no tattoo policy for the two shared baths.
Check availabilityEZRA VILLA Shirahama
エヅラヴィラ白浜
Each of the four villas is rented whole and has its own open-air spring bath, with no shared facilities. The operator publishes no tattoo policy. It does ask guests in villas A and B to wear swimwear in the open-air bath.
Check availabilityFIVE SPRING RESORT THE SHIRAHAMA
Every room has its own hot spring bath, fed around the clock from the source, and that is the bath to use. The large bath is closed to guests with tattoos of any size: the resort’s facilities page says so.
FIVE SPRING RESORT THE SHIRAHAMA tattoo policy → · All Shirahama →
Check availabilityHamachidori no Yu Kaishu
浜千鳥の湯 海舟
Not the large baths, and the ryokan says in the same answer where to go instead: the private open-air baths. There are two, Sekisho-no-yu and Iwato-no-yu, both free and taken as you find them, no booking. Nothing to cover in either, and the sunrise from the second is the reason people set an alarm.
Check availabilityHotel Hanakazari
ホテル花飾璃
The hotel has three baths, two indoor and one open-air, and every one is for a single party at a time: free, no reservation, about an hour a turn. It publishes no tattoo policy, and with every bath private there is nothing for one to apply to.
Check availabilityHotel Shirahamakan
白浜館
The hotel asks guests with tattoos, whatever the size, not to use the large bath. The rule names the large bath only, and fourteen rooms have a private open-air bath on natural spring water. There is no private bath to reserve.
Check availabilityHotel Sun Resort Shirahama
ホテルサンリゾート白浜
Every room has its own open-air bath or pot tub, filled with spring water from Tsubaki Onsen down the coast. The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for the shared large bath, and it has no private bath to reserve.
Hotel Sun Resort Shirahama tattoo policy → · All Shirahama →
Check availabilityHotel Tenzankaku Kaiyutei
ホテル天山閣 海ゆぅ庭
All 24 rooms come with their own open-air bath, and the ryokan’s pages describe no shared large bath. It publishes no tattoo policy.
Check availabilityINFINITO Hotel & Spa Nanki-Shirahama
インフィニート ホテル&スパ 南紀白浜
Book one of the two Lanai suites and the bath is yours: both have a private open-air bath on the terrace, source-fed, facing the Pacific. The three shared baths, the infinity one, the rooftop one, the private-source one, carry no published rule, so the suite is the answer here.
INFINITO Hotel & Spa Nanki-Shirahama tattoo policy → · All Shirahama →
Check availabilityInoshiba
南紀白浜 井の芝
The facility has no shared bath and no rooms to stay in, only four private baths rented by the session. It publishes no tattoo policy, and nobody else is in the water.
Kurhouse Shirahama
癒しの宿 クアハウス白浜
Three rooms have an open-air bath and two have a semi-open-air one. The hotel doesn’t say whether those tubs are filled with spring water, and it publishes no tattoo policy for the shared large bath. There is no private bath to reserve.
Check availabilityMusashi
白浜温泉の旅館 むさし
Two private semi-open-air baths, Seisho-no-yu and Hakusa-no-yu, are reserved by phone at ¥3,300 for 45 minutes for staying guests. Day visitors pay ¥4,400 and can book only on the day. The ryokan’s pages, its long FAQ included, say nothing about tattoos.
Check availabilityNagomi no Yu Kachofugetsu
南紀白浜 和みの湯 花鳥風月
The hotel’s FAQ says it built no large bath, to keep guests’ privacy, and put a hot-spring bath in every room instead. It publishes no tattoo policy, and with no shared bath there is nothing for one to apply to.
Check availabilityYanagiya
家族とすごす白浜の宿 柳屋
Two private baths, one indoor and one open-air, are reserved by phone in advance, first come first served, at ¥2,200 for 40 minutes. The ryokan publishes no tattoo policy for the two large baths.
Check availabilityYudokoro Murobe
南紀白浜 湯処むろべ
Three room types come with their own bath on the Kanro-no-yu spring. The ryokan assigns the type, and a guest can’t pick. It publishes no tattoo policy for the shared baths and has no private bath to reserve.
Check availabilityShodoshima
Bay Resort Hotel Shodoshima
ベイリゾートホテル小豆島
The hotel's hot-spring page and FAQ refuse tattooed guests, fashion tattoos included, in the 12th-floor bath, with no seal exception.
Bay Resort Hotel Shodoshima tattoo policy → · All Shodoshima →
Check availabilityShuzenji Onsen
Oninosumika
修善寺離れ宿 鬼の栖
The inn's own pages say every room has its own open-air, semi-open-air or indoor bath. There's no large bath and no private bath to book.
Check availabilityShuzenji Onsen Katsuragawa
湯めぐりの宿 修善寺温泉 桂川
Kyoritsu Resort, which runs the hotel, sets the rule for the whole group. Whatever the size, tattooed guests use a room bath or a private bath instead of the large bath.
Shuzenji Onsen Katsuragawa tattoo policy → · All Shuzenji Onsen →
Check availabilitySora Togetsuso Kinryu
宙 SORA 渡月荘金龍
The inn publishes no rule for its shared baths.
Sora Togetsuso Kinryu tattoo policy → · All Shuzenji Onsen →
Check availabilityYagyu-no-Sho
柳生の庄
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Its rooms page says every room's bath runs on free-flowing hot-spring water.
Check availabilityYukairo Kikuya
湯回廊 菊屋
Kyoritsu Resort, which runs the inn, sets the rule for the whole group. Whatever the size, tattooed guests use a room bath or a private bath instead of the large bath.
Check availabilityTakamatsu
Shin-Kabakawa Kanko Hotel
新樺川観光ホテル
The hotel says nothing about tattoos for its shared bath. Its room and spring pages say every room has a spring bath.
Check availabilityYunagi-no-Yu Hotel Hanajukai
夕凪の湯 HOTEL 花樹海
Nothing on the site addresses tattoos for the panoramic shared bath. The room page marks which room tubs are on the spring.
Note: The open-air jacuzzi in the designer rooms and the sky suite is not on the spring; the hotel writes it out. The shared bath is.
Yunagi-no-Yu Hotel Hanajukai tattoo policy → · All Takamatsu →
Check availabilityTakayama
Futarishizuka Hakuun
飛騨高山温泉 二人静 白雲
Hakuun publishes no tattoo rule. A tattooed guest can bathe alone in the detached open-air private bath, ¥1,000 per group for 40 minutes, or in the room's own tub. Neither is spring water, except in the one special room with a hot spring open-air bath.
Check availabilityHanaougi Bettei Iiyama
花扇別邸いいやま
Bettei Iiyama publishes no tattoo rule. Four of its six room types have their own open-air tub filled from the inn's spring, and there is one private open-air bath, reserved at the front desk on the day for ¥3,300 per 50 minutes. Either one lets a tattooed guest bathe in the spring apart from other guests.
Check availabilityHida Hotel Plaza
ひだホテルプラザ
Refused in the shared baths: the hotel's FAQ turns away guests with tattoos from its large baths, and it has no family or private bath to book. The one way to bathe in its spring with a tattoo is to stay in the special Western room Yuzan Kosho, which has its own hot-spring bath. Ordinary rooms have a plain bathtub.
Check availabilityHidatei Hanaougi
飛騨亭 花扇
Hanaougi publishes no tattoo rule. It has one private open-air bath, booked at the front desk on the day for ¥3,300 per 50 minutes, and ten of its twelve room types come with their own open-air tub. The inn says the private bath and the room open-air tubs are filled from its own spring.
Check availabilityHonjin Hiranoya Kachoan
本陣平野屋 花兆庵
Honjin Hiranoya Kachoan publishes no tattoo rule and has no private rental bath. A tattooed guest's own bath here is a room tub: the two garden rooms Kaze and Midori each have a half-open-air bath, and the suites and top-floor rooms have cypress or jet tubs. The inn calls only its shared baths hot spring, and it says the top-floor Hanayagi room's cypress tub is heated plain water.
Check availabilityHoshokaku
飛騨高山温泉 宝生閣
Hoshokaku publishes no tattoo rule. Eleven rooms on the fifth floor have their own open-air tub, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared baths. The inn says plainly that these room tubs are not hot spring water: its spring feeds only the stone open-air bath in the shared bath hall, and there is no private bath to reserve.
Check availabilityMachiyado Ichiryu
まち宿 壱龍
Machiyado Ichiryu has no shared bath at all, and it publishes no tattoo rule. Every bath in the house is taken alone: two private hot spring baths that are free whenever they stand empty, a third that is reserved for a fee, and a half-open-air tub in each of the 11 rooms.
Check availabilityMercure Hida Takayama
メルキュール飛騨高山
Mercure Hida Takayama publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Its answer for a tattooed guest is one of three private open-air baths, rented for 45 minutes at a time. They cannot be reserved ahead; ask at the front desk at check-in.
Check availabilityOyado Kokoro
おやど 心
Oyado Kokoro has no shared bath at all: its three baths are all private, free, and taken one party at a time, so tattoos never come up. Between 3 p.m. and midnight guests book a 45-minute turn on a board by the bath doors; after midnight the baths are open without booking. The inn publishes no tattoo rule.
Check availabilityRyokan Murayama
旅館むら山
Ryokan Murayama publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private hot spring baths, Take and Matsu, that guests use free of charge, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the spring without entering the shared men's or women's bath.
Check availabilityRyokufuen Kiyoharu
緑風苑きよはる
Ryokufuen Kiyoharu publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Two rooms, Natsuki and Shiho, have a private open-air bath on their own deck plus a shower room, so guests in those rooms can bathe without using the shared baths. The inn has no reservable private bath, so the choice of room decides it.
Check availabilityTakayama Ouan
飛騨花里の湯 高山桜庵
Refused in the shared baths: the hotel's FAQ says guests with a tattoo of any size, anywhere on the body, may not enter the large bath, and points them to the private baths instead. The three private baths on the 13th floor are free, need no booking and are filled with the hotel's spring water.
Check availabilityTokyu Stay Hida Takayama Musubi no Yu
東急ステイ飛騨高山 結の湯
Tokyu Stay Hida Takayama publishes no tattoo rule for its large baths. A tattooed guest can book one of the three private open-air baths on the top floor instead, each ¥2,750 for 45 minutes and fed by the same hot spring. They are booked at the front desk on the day of the stay, first come.
Tokyu Stay Hida Takayama Musubi no Yu tattoo policy → · All Takayama →
Check availabilityWat Hotel & Spa Hida Takayama
ワットホテル＆スパ飛騨高山
Wat Hotel's lodging terms refuse guests with tattoos in the large bath. The way to bathe here is one of the four family baths on the roof: each is a private open-air hot spring tub, free, with no booking, used whenever it stands empty. The refusal is written in the rules for the large bath only, so ask the front desk if you want the family baths confirmed for you.
Wat Hotel & Spa Hida Takayama tattoo policy → · All Takayama →
Check availabilityTakayu Onsen
Adachiya
安達屋
The inn’s shared baths are separate men’s and women’s baths.
Check availabilityRyokan Tamagoyu
旅館玉子湯
The inn’s day-bathing FAQ refuses tattoos outright and points tattooed visitors to its paid private bath.
Check availabilityShinobu Onsen Seishu
信夫温泉 青州
The inn names its river-side and mountain-side open-air baths as private baths, for staying guests only.
Check availabilityTamatsukuri Onsen
Chorakuen
湯之助の宿 長楽園
Chorakuen publishes no tattoo rule, so don't take the famous mixed bath as permission. The inn's own FAQ lists the private bath and the in-room baths.
Check availabilityKasuien Minami
佳翠苑 皆美
Nothing is published about tattoos, so treat the shared baths as closed.
Check availabilityMatsunoyu
玉造温泉 松乃湯
No tattoo rule is published, so don't count on the shared baths.
Note: The four private open-air baths are ordinary heated water, not the spring. The inn says so in its FAQ.
Check availabilityTamatsukuri Grand Hotel Choseikaku
玉造グランドホテル 長生閣
The hotel's English and Chinese FAQ refuses tattoos in the shared baths and names the private bath and the room baths instead.
Tamatsukuri Grand Hotel Choseikaku tattoo policy → · All Tamatsukuri Onsen →
Check availabilityYujin Chiyonoyu
湯陣 千代の湯
Chiyonoyu publishes no tattoo rule for its two bath halls, Senpuku-no-yu and Yakushi-no-yu.
Check availabilityTendo
Bimi Kyushin no Yado Tendo Hotel
美味求真の宿 天童ホテル
Tendo Hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its large baths. It rents a private bath, Sakura, to staying guests by the hour, and two barrier-free rooms have a ceramic tub of Tendo spring water, so a tattooed guest can bathe without sharing.
Bimi Kyushin no Yado Tendo Hotel tattoo policy → · All Tendo →
Check availabilityHohoemi no Sorayubune Tsuruya
ほほえみの空湯舟 つるや
Tsuruya publishes no tattoo rule for its tatami-floored large baths. Eight of its 22 rooms have their own open-air or half-open-air bath with spring water flowing through, and five of those also have a private dining room, so a tattooed guest can bathe and eat without sharing a room with anyone.
Check availabilityShohakutei Azumaso
松伯亭 あづま荘
Azumaso’s FAQ refuses tattoos in its shared baths, fashion and religious ones included. It adds that a guest with a small fashion tattoo who will hide it under a seal should ask at the front desk. Every room in its annex, Koin, has a cypress bath with the spring flowing through, and two add an open-air tub.
Check availabilityYu no Ka Matsunoyu
湯の香 松の湯
Matsunoyu publishes no tattoo rule for its large baths. Five of its 12 rooms have a spring-water tub of their own: the detached Shinonome with a ceramic open-air bath, two main-building rooms with a half-open-air bath, and two maisonettes with a ceramic tub, so a tattooed guest can book one and skip the shared baths.
Check availabilityYubo Ichiraku Tendo Spa and Brewery
湯坊いちらく
Ichiraku publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. The seven suites of its annex, Bettei Otoan, each have an open-air bath fed by the spring and usable at any hour, and the inn rents two open-air private baths, so a tattooed guest can stay without using the shared bath.
Yubo Ichiraku Tendo Spa and Brewery tattoo policy → · All Tendo →
Check availabilityToba
Bali & Resort SAYA no Kaze
Bali＆Resort SAYAの風
SAYA no Kaze answers the tattoo question in its FAQ: guests with tattoos may not use the large bath, and the hotel points them to its private bath instead. That bath is booked on the day, first come first served, at a tablet by the front desk from 3:30 p.m.; the hotel advises booking early because slots are limited.
Check availabilityIjika Daiichi Hotel Kagura
石鏡第一ホテル神具良
Kagura publishes no tattoo rule, so plan on its private baths rather than the shared ones. It has four, booked on the day for 40 minutes, and its NABURA rooms each have an open-air bath of spring water kept hot around the clock.
Check availabilityKisara
懐古ロマンの宿 季さら
Kisara publishes no tattoo rule, and it does not need one: there is no large bath. Each of its 13 detached rooms has two hot spring baths of its own, a tatami-floored indoor tub and an open-air tub in the trees.
Check availabilityKisara Bettei TOKI
季さら別邸 刻～TOKI～
TOKI publishes no tattoo rule, and has no large bath to apply one to. Each of its ten rooms has an open-air bath of its own, filled with Shaguji spring water.
Check availabilityKochoran
胡蝶蘭
Kochoran firmly refuses tattooed bathers in its large bath, and asks anyone bringing a cover seal to talk to the inn first, without promising entry. The sure way in is a Tokinagomi room, which has its own ceramic open-air tub and a cypress indoor bath; the inn says the room baths are not hot spring water.
Check availabilitySun Urashima Yuki no Sato
サン浦島 悠季の里
Sun Urashima publishes no tattoo rule, so the shared baths of its Marobine-an bathhouse are not the plan. It has three private baths, each booked for a session, and a run of special rooms with an open-air bath fed from the inn's own spring.
Check availabilityToba Grand Hotel
鳥羽グランドホテル
Toba Grand Hotel publishes no tattoo rule on its own site, so do not count on the shared baths. Its private open-air bath, fenced in bamboo above the bay, is booked ahead for 40 minutes, and three special rooms have an open-air bath of their own.
Check availabilityToba International Hotel Shiojitei
鳥羽国際ホテル 潮路亭
Shiojitei refuses tattooed bathers in its bath hall, Tokowaka-no-yu, and its FAQ adds that a fashion or religious tattoo makes no difference. The way in is a room: five garden suites each have a private open-air bath on their own deck, behind a security-locked corridor.
Toba International Hotel Shiojitei tattoo policy → · All Toba →
Check availabilityToba Seaside Hotel
鳥羽シーサイドホテル
The hotel refuses tattooed bathers in its three large baths and warns that it may ask someone to leave after they have gone in. What it offers instead is structural: five family baths that staying guests reserve for 60 minutes, and nine rooms with their own hot spring open-air bath on a sea-facing terrace.
Check availabilityToba View Hotel Hanashinju
鳥羽ビューホテル花真珠
Hanashinju refuses bathers with tattoos in its baths, and says so even for tattoos covered by a seal. It has no private bath to book. The sea-side rooms with an open-air bath have a Shigaraki-ware kettle tub on the balcony, filled with ordinary heated water, not the spring.
Check availabilityTokachigawa Onsen
Kangetsuen
十勝川温泉 観月苑
The rule, in the day-bathing section of the hotel’s bath page, refuses entry to the building, so mention your tattoos when you book a room.
Check availabilityObihiro Natural Hot Spring Fukui Hotel
帯広天然温泉 ふく井ホテル
The hotel’s rooms page lists the two room types with a moor-spring bath.
Obihiro Natural Hot Spring Fukui Hotel tattoo policy → · All Tokachigawa Onsen →
Check availabilitySanyoan
三余庵
The Daiichi Hotel next door, run by the same company, refuses tattooed bathers in its large bath.
Check availabilityTokachigawa Moor Onsen Seijyakubow
十勝川モール温泉 清寂房
The inn’s rooms page states that every room has a free-flowing open-air bath.
Tokachigawa Moor Onsen Seijyakubow tattoo policy → · All Tokachigawa Onsen →
Check availabilityTokachigawa Onsen Daiichi Hotel
十勝川温泉第一ホテル 豊洲亭・豆陽亭
The rule is printed on the bath pages of both wings and in the day-bathing section.
Tokachigawa Onsen Daiichi Hotel tattoo policy → · All Tokachigawa Onsen →
Check availabilityTokyo area
Cyashitsu Ryokan Asakusa
茶室ryokan asakusa
A private rooftop bath, 45 minutes for every room. The top floor has an open-air hinoki bath with a view of the Skytree, closed in by planting rather than walls, and every guest gets a private slot in it whichever of the ten rooms they book. The ryokan publishes no tattoo policy, and with no shared bath there's nothing for one to apply to.
Check availabilityKamenoi Hotel Ome
亀の井ホテル 青梅
The top-floor communal bath, Ome Ayumi no Yu, looking over the Tama River, has no tattoo rule on the hotel's own pages or the group's. Treat it as unconfirmed, not as permission.
Check availabilityNarita Airport Onsen Sora no Yu
成田空港温泉 空の湯
Private baths for anything larger than a palm. Since September 1, 2022 the 3rd-floor communal baths refuse tattoos, but the same notice still admits small ones, "about the size that a palm would cover," on the stated reasoning that they intimidate nobody. The 2nd-floor reservable baths are exempt and carry no restriction.
Narita Airport Onsen Sora no Yu tattoo policy → · All Tokyo area →
Check availabilityTSUKI Tokyo
TSUKI 東京
Private baths, and the hotel says in writing that tattoos are welcome in them. Its page for YUUYA, the reservable bathhouse, lists the rules of use, and one of them is that guests with irezumi or tattoos may use it. Two bathrooms, OBORO and KASUMI, each with a deep tub of Aomori hiba wood cypress; ¥3,300 for 60 minutes, up to two people, guests only, 6 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to midnight. Not spring water. The point here is the wood and the privacy, not the geology.
Check availabilityLake Toya
Lake Toya Tsuruga Resort Hikari no Uta
洞爺湖 鶴雅リゾート 洸の謌
The hotel’s FAQ refuses bathing to guests with tattoos and says the rule covers religious tattoos too.
Lake Toya Tsuruga Resort Hikari no Uta tattoo policy → · All Lake Toya →
Check availabilityThe Lake Suite Ko no Sumika
ザ・レイクスイート 湖の栖
The terrace tubs are filled with Toyako Onsen hot-spring water.
The Lake Suite Ko no Sumika tattoo policy → · All Lake Toya →
Check availabilityThe Lake View TOYA Nonokaze Resort
ザ レイクビュー TOYA 乃の風リゾート
The view baths in the rooms run free-flowing on natural hot-spring water.
The Lake View TOYA Nonokaze Resort tattoo policy → · All Lake Toya →
Check availabilityToya Kanko Hotel
洞爺観光ホテル
Each private bath has an indoor tub and an open-air tub of its own, both on free-flowing water.
Check availabilityToyako Manseikaku Hotel Lakeside Terrace
洞爺湖万世閣ホテルレイクサイドテラス
The refusal also names stick-on tattoos and body paint, and it’s printed on the hotel’s bath, sauna, day-bathing and FAQ pages.
Toyako Manseikaku Hotel Lakeside Terrace tattoo policy → · All Lake Toya →
Check availabilityToyama
Amaharashi Onsen Isohanabi
雨晴温泉 磯はなび
The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its hot spring page, rooms page, FAQ or front page, so nothing is promised for the shared Yuraku bath. The listing rests on its two private baths, Ichi-no-yu in stone and Ni-no-yu in hinoki, which take the Amaharashi spring and are booked by the hour. Bath-only day visits are refused, so the private baths are for staying guests and lunch-plan visitors.
Check availabilityAsahiya
天然温泉 浜辺の宿 あさひや
The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and it does not need one: there is no shared bath. Its three bath rooms, Kikyo-no-yu in hinoki, Nadeshiko-no-yu in stone and the step-free Katakago-no-yu, have all been used as private baths since April 2022, free to guests from 3 p.m. to 9 a.m. with no time slots. You check which one is empty on your phone, go in and lock the door. The detached villa Tsuki has a hot spring open-air tub of its own as well.
Check availabilityIkuji Onsen Tanakaya
生地温泉 たなかや
The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its bath page, FAQ, terms or front page, so nothing is promised for the two shared garden baths, and there is no reservable private bath. The listing rests on the Kikuhoan annex, whose rooms have an indoor stone tub fed with the same water as the shared baths. That water is the inn’s point of pride, a cold mineral spring heated for bathing, and the inn says itself that it does not count as a hot spring under the current law.
Check availabilityKintaro Onsen
金太郎温泉
The inn answers the tattoo question in its own FAQ: the large baths are closed to tattooed guests, and it points them instead to the private baths in its Karuna no Yakata day-use building, which run on the same source at 100 percent. Those are booked by phone for 60, 90 or 120 minutes on top of admission, and staying guests pay no admission.
Check availabilityOnyado Nono Toyama
天然温泉 剱の湯 御宿 野乃富山
The hotel turns tattooed guests away from its shared bath, Tsurugi-no-yu, as a rule. Its FAQ adds that some hotels in the group hand out cover seals, two at most, and that a tattoo small enough to hide under one may bathe, but it hedges on whether this hotel has them. The sure answer here is a room with its own hinoki tub of the hotel’s spring: four of the five room types have one, and nobody else uses it.
Check availabilityRiver Retreat Garaku
リバーリトリート雅樂倶
The hotel’s house rules, revised August 2026, bar tattooed guests from the large baths and the like, which covers the shared indoor and open-air baths, the guests-only Spring Day Spa and the reservable open-air bath inside it. The way in is one of the four annex premier suites with a hot spring tub of their own: rooms 111, 113 and 114 with a hinoki tub and room 112 with a black granite one, each filled with Kasuga Onsen.
Check availabilitySanrakuen
庄川温泉郷 鳥越の宿 三楽園
The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its hot spring page, rooms page or FAQ, so nothing is promised for the two shared springs. It has no reservable private bath. The listing is for its two modern rooms with a semi-open-air bath, and the inn says plainly that those room baths are not hot spring water: they are ordinary heated water in a tub over two meters long with the Shogawa river in the window.
Check availabilityTsurugi Koizuki
つるぎ恋月
The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its hot spring page, rooms page or FAQ, so the shared bath is not promised to anyone with ink. What it does publish is the structure: twelve rooms with their own open-air tub of the Etchu Tsurugi spring, which the inn says is hot spring water run through a recirculating system, and a private indoor bath of the same spring that any guest can book for 50 minutes. Either keeps you out of the shared hall altogether.
Check availabilityUmiakari
氷見温泉郷 くつろぎの宿 うみあかり
The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its hot spring page, rooms page or policy page, so the two shared view baths and the rock bath in the annex promise nothing to a tattooed guest. The listing rests on the Mori-no-to wing, two rooms opened in 2023 that each have a semi-open-air bath of their own. The inn describes those tubs as semi-open-air baths and does not call them hot spring baths, so treat the water as the inn’s own bath water rather than the spring.
Check availabilityYuya FUROBAKKA
湯屋 FUROBAKKA
The operator answers the tattoo question in its own FAQ, bath by bath. The family baths are fully private, so a tattooed guest may use them. The rental saunas share their cold plunge and cooling space, so tattoos are turned away there, and the large bath Kurobeya refuses them too, including faint tattoos, tattoos under seals and visits after dark. The operator says it is reviewing the rule for diversity reasons but that for now the shared areas stay closed. The water throughout is Kurobe groundwater, not a hot spring.
Tsunagi and Oshuku
Bessou Kakei
別荘佳景
Bessou Kakei publishes no tattoo rule, and it has no shared bath to be turned away from. Each of its six villas has its own indoor bath and open-air rock bath, both fed from the inn’s two private sources around the clock.
Check availabilityGensen Itto Iwate Shizukuishi
源泉一途 岩手雫石
Gensen Itto publishes no tattoo rule. Its two suite types each have their own open-air or half-open-air tub of the inn’s spring, so book one of those rather than a twin room and the shared bath is not needed.
Gensen Itto Iwate Shizukuishi tattoo policy → · All Tsunagi and Oshuku →
Check availabilityTabisomeya Yamaichi
旅染屋 山いち
Yamaichi publishes no tattoo rule. It rents a private bath by the session, a ceramic tub of source-flowing spring water with a tatami washing floor, and two first-floor rooms have a ceramic tub of their own. Either gives you a bath nobody else shares; the shared baths have no published answer.
Tabisomeya Yamaichi tattoo policy → · All Tsunagi and Oshuku →
Check availabilityYumori Hotel Taikan
湯守 ホテル大観
Tattooed guests are refused in the hotel’s large bath and open-air baths. Its parent group, Itoen Hotels, tells them to use the bath in their room or a private bath instead. Taikan has no reservable private bath, so the way in is one of its eleven rooms with an open-air tub of the hotel’s own spring: nine in the Bettei Urara wing and two in the East wing.
Yumori Hotel Taikan tattoo policy → · All Tsunagi and Oshuku →
Check availabilityUnazuki Onsen
Enraku
延楽
Enraku publishes no tattoo rule and has no private bath; its FAQ points to the rooms with an open-air bath of Unazuki spring water instead.
Check availabilityEntaijiso
延対寺荘
Entaijiso publishes no tattoo rule. Book its one private semi-open-air bath at the front desk on arrival; no room type has a bath of its own.
Check availabilityFeel Unazuki
フィール宇奈月
No tattoo rule is published for the two large baths or the semi-open-air bath beside them.
Check availabilityKurobe Unazuki Onsen Togen
黒部・宇奈月温泉 桃源
Togen’s FAQ keeps tattoos out of the large bath and offers its private baths and suites instead. Three small private baths are free to staying guests, a larger one costs ¥2,200, and three suites have their own open-air bath.
Kurobe Unazuki Onsen Togen tattoo policy → · All Unazuki Onsen →
Check availabilitySan Ryutei
サン柳亭
San Ryutei publishes no tattoo rule. Book one of its two detached private open-air baths on the day, or one of the three spring-water open-air rooms.
Note: Only three of the seven rooms with an open-air tub, Sakura, Kawane and Tsuki, run on hot spring water. The other four are ordinary heated water.
Check availabilityUnzen and Obama
Azumaen
雲仙温泉 東園
Azumaen refuses the large bath to anyone with a tattoo, and says a fake tattoo counts. Its FAQ gives the alternative in the same answer: three rooms with an open-air bath and five with a semi-open-air bath, all filled from the inn's own spring. Book one of those and the refusal does not touch you.
Check availabilityFukutokuya Ryokan
福徳屋旅館
Fukutokuya publishes no tattoo rule. It has no large shared bath to be turned away from: the inn bathes its guests in seven private baths, including a top-floor open-air view bath, and lets them in at any hour of the night.
Check availabilityHoshino Resorts Kai Unzen
星野リゾート 界 雲仙
Kai Unzen's own pages say nothing about tattoos. The group FAQ that its site links to says Hoshino Resorts does not restrict guests with tattoos, but may refuse the hot spring and large bath if it judges that other guests would be frightened. The sure answer here is a room with its own open-air bath, which the hotel sells and the booking page lists.
Hoshino Resorts Kai Unzen tattoo policy → · All Unzen and Obama →
Check availabilityIseya
伊勢屋
Iseya publishes no tattoo rule. Every room in the main building has its own semi-open-air bath fed from the inn's own source, so a tattooed guest bathes in the room. There are also three family baths booked by the hour at 3,000 yen. The annex Ocean Suites have a sea-view bath that is not spring water.
Check availabilityJuraku
雲仙小浜温泉 寿楽
Juraku publishes no tattoo rule for its second-floor large bath. It has four private baths in Shigaraki ceramic, booked at the front desk at check-in in 50-minute turns; the first turn is free and later ones cost 1,100 yen. Some rooms have a semi-open-air bath of their own.
Check availabilityPrivate Spa Hotel Orange Bay
プライベート・スパ・ホテル オレンジ・ベイ
Orange Bay publishes no tattoo rule and has no shared bath to publish one for. All 12 rooms have an open-air spring bath of their own, flowing through from the source and usable 24 hours, so a tattooed guest never leaves the room to bathe.
Private Spa Hotel Orange Bay tattoo policy → · All Unzen and Obama →
Check availabilityRyokan Kunisaki
旅館 國崎
Kunisaki publishes no tattoo rule. Its three private baths, a cypress tub, a stone bath and an open-air bath, are free for guests and need no booking: if one is empty, lock the door and go in. Two rooms and the detached cottage have their own spring bath as well.
Check availabilityRyokan Yamadaya
旅館 山田屋
Yamadaya publishes no tattoo rule. Its rooftop cypress bath, Irihi-no-yu, is a men's and women's bath until 7:30 p.m. and again in the morning, but from 7:30 to 11 p.m. it becomes a reserved private bath, free, in 30- to 60-minute turns. That evening slot is the tattooed guest's bath.
Check availabilityRyokan Yunoka
旅館ゆのか
Yunoka publishes no tattoo rule for its indoor bath. A tattooed guest books one of three private baths, two of them open-air on the roof, in 50-minute slots at 1,000 yen, or takes a room with its own source-fed tub: all three annex rooms have a semi-open-air one on the terrace.
Check availabilityRyotei Hanzuiryo
旅亭 半水盧
Hanzuiryo publishes no tattoo rule. Its two special rooms, Tsubakien and Juen, have an open-air bath and a sauna of their own, and the operator company names a private bath, Nishi-no-yu, beside the main bathhouse without publishing its fee or hours. The cypress tub in each of the other twelve houses is heated water, not the spring, by the inn’s own rooms page.
Check availabilitySeiunso
青雲荘
Seiunso publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath and open-air bath. It rents a private bath at ¥2,500 a room for 50 minutes, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., which staying guests can reserve in advance; day visitors ask at the desk on the day, until 5 p.m. None of the rooms has its own bath.
Check availabilityTsutaya Ryokan
つたや旅館
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its shared bathhouse. The answer here is the roof: five open-air private baths that staying guests may use free, as often as they like, whenever one is empty. There is also a private indoor bath inside the bathhouse.
Check availabilityUnzen Fukudaya and Yamateru Bettei
雲仙福田屋／山照別邸
Fukudaya’s FAQ refuses tattoos in its shared baths, fashion and religious ones included. The answer here is four timed private baths, two of them free for staying guests, and the seven annex rooms, six of which have their own open-air tub of free-flowing spring water. Day visitors can book the private baths too, at a per-person fee.
Unzen Fukudaya and Yamateru Bettei tattoo policy → · All Unzen and Obama →
Check availabilityUnzen Iwaki Ryokan
雲仙いわき旅館
Iwaki publishes no tattoo rule and has no private bath to rent. The answer is one of its five special rooms, each with its own open-air tub fed straight from the spring that rises on the inn's own grounds. The ordinary rooms share the indoor and open-air baths.
Check availabilityUnzen Kanko Hotel
雲仙観光ホテル
The hotel’s FAQ refuses tattoos in its sulfur bath hall and open-air bath. It has one family bath, rented by the hour at ¥2,000 plus tax a group, on full advance reservation, and that is the one place here to bathe alone. Bathing is for staying guests only.
Check availabilityUnzen Kyushu Hotel
雲仙九州ホテル
The hotel publishes no tattoo rule, and it has no shared bath at all: its FAQ says so and points guests to the semi-open-air hot-spring tub every room has. Four villa rooms add an open-air spring bath, a garden sauna and a cold plunge. Your bath is yours for the whole stay.
Check availabilityUnzen Miyazaki Ryokan
雲仙宮崎旅館
Miyazaki asks guests with a tattoo not to use its large bath, Kirin-no-yu, and says so on its hot spring page. The same page sells three private baths, Ichi-no-yu, Ni-no-yu and San-no-yu, at ¥3,300 for 50 minutes, booked at check-in, and the premium design rooms have a semi-open-air tub of source water. The written refusal names the large bath only.
Unzen Miyazaki Ryokan tattoo policy → · All Unzen and Obama →
Check availabilityUnzen Sky Hotel
雲仙スカイホテル
The Sky Hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its two bath halls. For staying guests it rents the garden open-air bath and large bath as a private block from 11:30 p.m. to half past midnight, ¥1,000 a person for two or more. That late hour is the one way to have the water to yourself here.
Check availabilityYuyado Unzen Shinyu
ゆやど雲仙新湯
Shinyu’s FAQ refuses tattoos in its two bath halls, fashion and religious ones included. The answer is the family bath Madoka, fed by the inn's first source and rented to staying guests for 50 minutes at ¥2,200, booked by phone on a first-come basis, or one of the four Tsukitei rooms with a garden open-air tub on the fourth source.
Check availabilityUreshino Onsen
Banshokaku Shikishima
萬象閣敷島
The inn doesn’t publish a tattoo policy, and it has no private bath of its own to rent.
Banshokaku Shikishima tattoo policy → · All Ureshino Onsen →
Check availabilityChashin no Yado Warakuen
茶心の宿 和楽園
Both private baths take day visitors as well as staying guests.
Chashin no Yado Warakuen tattoo policy → · All Ureshino Onsen →
Check availabilityHana no Shizuku
華の雫
Every room looks out over the Ureshino river.
Check availabilityKotan Ureshino
枯淡嬉野
Only guests 13 and older (middle-school age and up) can stay or visit.
Check availabilityOnyado Takasago
御宿 高砂
Towada-no-yu costs ¥4,000; ask at the desk how long a turn runs.
Check availabilityOyado Kujaku
お宿 紅舎宮
On the structure alone it would be one of the strongest entries in Ureshino: all eight rooms have their own semi-open-air hot spring bath, two open-air baths are rented free once per stay, a sauna bath rents for ¥3,000 per 90 minutes, and the shared bath itself can be locked for private use after 19:00.
Check availabilityRitouen
鯉登苑
The bath structure is right: two rented private baths (kazoku-buro), the open-air Kirari and the indoor Nagomi, free for 30 minutes to guests, plus rooms with open-air or indoor spring baths.
Check availabilityRyokan Oomuraya
旅館 大村屋
The private baths are open to day visitors as well as staying guests, by reservation.
Check availabilityRyokan Yoshidaya
旅館 吉田屋
The private baths take day visitors too, at ¥4,400 for 50 minutes on weekdays and ¥5,500 on weekends and holidays.
Check availabilitySiebold no Yu
シーボルトの湯
The town bath publishes no tattoo rule at all, in either the city’s page or the tourism association’s. So the shared bath is a gamble, but the building also rents private baths by the 50 minutes at ¥2,500 for up to five adults, and that room is yours alone. Tattooed bathers who do not want to ask at the counter should book the kashikiri and skip the large bath.
Taishoya
大正屋
The inn draws from its own well, 85–95°C (185–203°F) at the source, and says the water is good to drink.
Check availabilityTaishoya Shiibasanso
大正屋 椎葉山荘
The water is cooler than in town, 48.8°C (119.8°F) at the source.
Check availabilityUreshino Kodachi no Yu
うれしの木立の湯
The bathhouse doesn’t publish a tattoo rule. Each tub holds two to four people.
Ureshino Kodachi no Yu tattoo policy → · All Ureshino Onsen →
Ureshino Motoyu
うれしの元湯
The rule is in the inn’s FAQ for Yukomori no Mori, posted September 23, 2025.
Check availabilityWataya Besso
和多屋別荘
The inn says every bath on the estate, room baths included, is filled straight from its own source, about 85°C (185°F) where it rises.
Check availabilityYadoya Uchiroji
宿屋うちろじ 本通り
The Standard rooms, at 20 square meters, have no bath of their own.
Check availabilityUtoro, Shiretoko
Hotel Kifu Club Shiretoko
ホテル季風クラブ知床
The private baths stand in their own building in the grounds, facing the Okhotsk Sea.
Hotel Kifu Club Shiretoko tattoo policy → · All Utoro, Shiretoko →
Check availabilityKitakobushi Shiretoko Hotel & Resort
北こぶし知床 ホテル&リゾート
Both answers are in the hotel’s own FAQ: the large-bath refusal and the statement that it has no family or rental bath.
Kitakobushi Shiretoko Hotel & Resort tattoo policy → · All Utoro, Shiretoko →
Check availabilityShiretoko Daiichi Hotel
知床第一ホテル
The refusal is on the hotel’s hot-spring page, and its FAQ lists the private bath as closed for now.
Shiretoko Daiichi Hotel tattoo policy → · All Utoro, Shiretoko →
Check availabilityYamaga
Hirayama Onsen Tofuya Yamato
平山温泉 豆富屋やまと
No tattoo rule is published. The inn is five separate cottages, and each has its own indoor bath and open-air bath of undiluted source water, so a tattooed guest never needs a shared pool. The one bath building outside the cottages, Musouan, is a sauna-and-tub house used in two-hour private slots.
Check availabilityHirayama Onsen Yunokura
平山温泉 湯の蔵
No tattoo rule is published. Every cottage in the Kotobuki-tei and Fukutei wings and the Bettei villa has its own open-air bath of undiluted spring water, and the day-use Honkan rents three private rooms with their own open-air bath, so a tattooed traveler can bathe here as a guest or as a visitor without the shared pools.
Check availabilityIchiboku Isso
山懐の宿 一木一草
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its eight rooms has its own bath of source-fed spring water, and seven of them have an open-air tub as well, so a tattooed guest can bathe for the whole stay without entering the cave bath or the half open-air baths that other guests share.
Check availabilityKazokuyu Yuusen
家族湯 湧泉
No tattoo rule is published. Every bath here is a private room for one party, 14 in all, so a tattooed bather never shares a tub.
Rotenyu Momiji
露天湯 椛
No tattoo rule is published. Every bath here is a private open-air bath rented to one party at a time and refilled with fresh source water for each, so a tattooed bather never shares a tub.
Ryokan Kadoya
旅館かどや
No tattoo rule is published. The inn’s one semi-open-air room, a detached annex, has its own tub of undiluted Hirayama water usable around the clock, so a tattooed guest who books it can skip the men’s and women’s baths, which also take day visitors. The main-building rooms have no spring tub.
Check availabilityRyokan Kazokuyu Imamura
旅館・家族湯 いまむら
No tattoo rule is published. The inn rents family baths, private bath rooms with an indoor tub, an open-air tub or both, to staying guests and day visitors for 50 minutes at a time, and four of its rooms have a bath of their own, so a tattooed guest never needs the men’s and women’s baths.
Check availabilitySatoyama no Kakureyado Kafutei
里山の隠れ宿 花富亭
No tattoo rule is published. Eleven of the 19 rooms have an open-air or semi-open-air bath of their own on the deck, filled from the source, and the inn says the second-floor semi-open-air rooms were rebuilt for people who find the shared bath hard to use, so a tattooed guest can book one of those and leave the Hana-no-yu hall alone.
Satoyama no Kakureyado Kafutei tattoo policy → · All Yamaga →
Check availabilityYamaga Onsen Chozantei
山鹿温泉 眺山庭
No tattoo rule is published. Every room in the main building and the Premier annex has its own indoor bath of natural spring water, kept hot with heating, so a tattooed guest can leave the large bath and the open-air bath over the town to other people.
Check availabilityYamaga Onsen Seiryuso
山鹿温泉 清流荘
No tattoo rule is published. The Suikyoan wing puts a private open-air tub of undiluted spring water on every room’s terrace, usable 24 hours, so a guest who books there never has to use the Matsu-no-yu or Momiji-yu bath halls. Rooms in the Rokumontei wing have an ordinary bath and toilet, not a spring tub.
Check availabilityYamaga Onsen Sunpalace Matsuzaka
山鹿温泉 サンパレス松坂
No tattoo rule is published. Every room has a semi-open-air bath filled with the undiluted source and usable around the clock, so a tattooed guest can skip the large bath, which is also sold to day visitors.
Yamaga Onsen Sunpalace Matsuzaka tattoo policy → · All Yamaga →
Check availabilityYudokoro Fugetsu
湯処 風月
No tattoo rule is published. Fugetsu has no large bath at all: all 17 rooms are private, rented to one party for 60 minutes and refilled for each, so a tattooed bather never shares a tub.
Yutorelo Yamaga
ゆとりろ山鹿
No tattoo rule is published. Two top-floor Japanese-Western rooms have an open-air tub on the terrace, so a tattooed guest who books one can bathe without the shared baths, but the hotel says plainly that these tubs are not hot spring water. The spring is only in the large bath and its open-air bath, which day visitors use too.
Check availabilityYamanaka Onsen
Kayotei
かよう亭
Kayotei publishes no tattoo rule, and most of its ten rooms have an open-air or indoor hot spring bath of their own, so on bath structure it is a private listing. The inn takes bookings through its own English inquiry form.
Check availabilityKochou
日本が香る宿 胡蝶
Kochou publishes no tattoo rule. Book the private bath Yamanami, one of the two open-air rooms, or the detached Jurakudai.
Check availabilityKuriya Yasohachi
厨八十八
Yasohachi publishes no tattoo rule. Book the room with an open-air bath on the terrace, sold to two groups a day.
Check availabilityMiyakowasure no Yado Korogiro
みやこわすれの宿 こおろぎ楼
There’s no shared bath. The inn’s facilities page says the baths are in the rooms, and all six rooms have a hot spring tub of their own.
Miyakowasure no Yado Korogiro tattoo policy → · All Yamanaka Onsen →
Check availabilityOiwai no Yado
お祝いの宿
Oiwai no Yado publishes no tattoo rule, so book one of its private baths rather than use the large bath.
Check availabilityShirasagiyu Tawaraya
白鷺湯たわらや
Tawaraya publishes no tattoo rule. Rent the private open-air bath, or book a room with its own source-fed bath.
Check availabilitySuimei
お風呂自慢の宿 翠明
Suimei publishes no tattoo rule. It rents three private open-air baths, and on weekdays a day visitor can rent one with a ten-mat room attached.
Check availabilitySuzuya Konnichiro
微笑みの宿 すゞや今日楼
Konnichiro publishes no tattoo rule. Two top-floor rooms, Mai and Miyabi, opened in April 2024 with an open-air bath and a sauna of their own, so a guest in either never shares the water.
Check availabilityYamanaka Onsen Hanamurasaki
山中温泉 花紫
Hanamurasaki publishes no tattoo rule. Book one of the three suite types, each with a private hot spring bath and a sauna in the room.
Yamanaka Onsen Hanamurasaki tattoo policy → · All Yamanaka Onsen →
Check availabilityYamanaka Onsen Hanatsubaki
湯畑の宿 花つばき
Hanatsubaki publishes no tattoo rule. Four rooms have a cypress open-air tub of their own, which is the way to bathe here without sharing. The Yubatake, its terraced open-air baths down by the stream, is mixed bathing in a bathing garment, and still a shared bath with no stated rule.
Note: The cypress tubs in the four open-air-bath rooms are ordinary heated water, not hot spring water. The inn’s own room page says so, and it rents no private bath on the spring.
Check availabilityYamanaka Onsen Kagari Kisshotei
かがり吉祥亭
Kagari Kisshotei publishes no tattoo rule. Book one of its two private baths, cypress or rock, at the desk on arrival.
Yamanaka Onsen Kagari Kisshotei tattoo policy → · All Yamanaka Onsen →
Check availabilityYamanaka Onsen Ohanami Kyubei
お花見久兵衛
Ohanami Kyubei publishes no tattoo rule. Its three private open-air baths are free to staying guests, booked on the day in order of asking.
Yamanaka Onsen Ohanami Kyubei tattoo policy → · All Yamanaka Onsen →
Check availabilityYamashiro Onsen
Araya Totoan
あらや滔々庵
Araya publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Eleven of the seventeen rooms have an open-air bath on the inn’s own source; book one of those.
Check availabilityBeniya Mukayu
べにや無何有
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its two bath halls, Gensei and Usuko.
Check availabilityHatori
葉渡莉
Hatori publishes no tattoo rule. Book one of its two private baths, hinoki or stone, on the same spring as the large baths.
Note: The two private baths are hot spring water. The open-air tubs on the Kaede wing suites are not: the inn marks every one as ordinary heated water.
Check availabilityHotel Kikyou
ホテルききょう
No tattoo rule is published. Book a special room with its own free-flowing half-open-air bath.
Check availabilityKaga no Yado Housyoutei
加賀の宿 宝生亭
No tattoo rule is published. Book the private open-air bath, or one of the two top-floor rooms with an open-air bath of their own.
Kaga no Yado Housyoutei tattoo policy → · All Yamashiro Onsen →
Check availabilityMidori no Yado Bansyoukaku
みどりの宿 萬松閣
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its large bath or its open-air baths.
Midori no Yado Bansyoukaku tattoo policy → · All Yamashiro Onsen →
Check availabilityMiyabi no Yado Kaga Hyakumangoku
みやびの宿 加賀百万石
No tattoo rule is published. Rent one of the private bath suites, or book a Kanade annex room with an open-air spring bath.
Miyabi no Yado Kaga Hyakumangoku tattoo policy → · All Yamashiro Onsen →
Check availabilityMori no Sumika Resort & Spa
森の栖リゾート＆スパ
The rule is in the hotel’s FAQ, which bars tattooed guests from the summer garden pool too.
Mori no Sumika Resort & Spa tattoo policy → · All Yamashiro Onsen →
Check availabilityOnsen Meiso Club Fujiya Ryokan
温泉めい想倶楽部 富士屋旅館
No tattoo rule is published. Book one of the three detached private baths, or a room with an open-air bath.
Onsen Meiso Club Fujiya Ryokan tattoo policy → · All Yamashiro Onsen →
Check availabilityRurikoh
瑠璃光
The FAQ asks tattooed guests to stay out of the large baths and points them to the private open-air baths or a room with an open-air bath.
Note: Not every room tub here is hot spring water: some are ordinary heated water, and each room page says which. Check before you book a room for its tub.
Check availabilityTachibana Shikitei
たちばな四季亭
No tattoo rule is published. Book a room with an open-air bath piped from the source, usable day and night.
Check availabilityYoshidaya Sannoukaku
吉田屋 山王閣
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its two large baths, Inochi no Izumi and Sachi no Izumi.
Yoshidaya Sannoukaku tattoo policy → · All Yamashiro Onsen →
Check availabilityYu no Yado Hakusan Shoubutei
湯の宿 白山菖蒲亭
No tattoo rule is published. Eighteen rooms have a hot spring bath inside, and a source-fed private bath is booked by the 45 minutes.
Yu no Yado Hakusan Shoubutei tattoo policy → · All Yamashiro Onsen →
Check availabilityYunokuni Tensyo
ゆのくに天祥
The hotel prints under each of its three bath halls that tattooed guests are refused. Book a room with an open-air bath on its own source.
Check availabilityYubara Onsen
Genroku Hatago Aburaya
元禄旅籠 油屋
One of Yubara’s two main source wells is under Musuian, the inn’s guest building, and it supplies the town’s other inns as well.
Check availabilityHakkei
八景
Hakkei says nothing about tattoos anywhere on its site, so read no permission into its two large baths. The private baths can be booked ahead or at check-in.
Check availabilityMatsunoya Hanaizumi
松の家 花泉
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its 10 shared baths.
Check availabilityMotoyu Yumoto Onsenkan
元湯 湯本温泉館
Maniwa city publishes nothing about tattoos here, so don't count on the large bath. The private bath is the way into the Yubara hot-spring water without staying the night.
Petit Hotel Yubara Resort
プチホテルゆばらリゾート
No tattoo rule is published, so treat the shared bath as unknown.
Petit Hotel Yubara Resort tattoo policy → · All Yubara Onsen →
Check availabilityWankoan
下湯原温泉 わんこあん
The inn's own Q&A says every room has an open-air bath, that the room bath is the only bath, and that there's no large bath.
Check availabilityYubara no Yado Komeya
ゆばらの宿 米屋
Komeya publishes no tattoo rule, so the shared baths aren't an option.
Check availabilityYukaikan Hanayashiki
湯快感 花やしき
Hanayashiki publishes no tattoo rule, and its two indoor baths are shared, so don't count on them.
Check availabilityYunokura Tsuruya
湯の蔵 つるや
No tattoo rule is published, so the two large baths are an unknown. If you'd rather not stay, Makuyu, the all-cypress indoor bath, rents by the session to day visitors too.
Check availabilityYuda Onsen
Matsudaya Hotel
松田屋ホテル
Matsudaya doesn't publish a tattoo policy, so don't assume the main bath is open to tattooed guests. There are two ways to bathe privately here instead.
Check availabilityOyado Onn Yuda Onsen
お宿 Onn 湯田温泉
No tattoo rule is published. The large bath guests use is next door at Kamefuku On Place, which publishes nothing either.
Check availabilityYudanaka and Shibu
Aburaya Tosen
あぶらや燈千
Suigetsu-no-yu is a Shigaraki stoneware tub, open to the wind and a wide mountain view.
Check availabilityAndaikan
安代館
Andaikan runs on free-flowing Andai Onsen water, open 24 hours.
Check availabilityHanaakari no Yado Kamei no Yu
華灯りの宿 加命の湯
The free passes to Yorozuya’s large baths come under Yorozuya’s rule, which allows only a palm-sized tattoo under a cover seal.
Hanaakari no Yado Kamei no Yu tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityHotel Tsubakino
ホテル椿野
Day visitors can rent TSUBAKI too, so you can use it without staying.
Check availabilityIchinoyu Katei
一乃湯 果亭
The warning is on the inn’s English page and covers the public baths and other shared facilities.
Check availabilityIssa no Komichi Biyu no Yado
一茶のこみち 美湯の宿
A yumori, the inn’s bath keeper, tends three free-flowing springs all day.
Issa no Komichi Biyu no Yado tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityKanbayashi Hotel Senjukaku
上林ホテル仙壽閣
The hotel gives its flow as 720 liters (190 gal) a minute, all free-flowing.
Kanbayashi Hotel Senjukaku tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityKanbayashi Onsen Jinpyokaku Honten
上林温泉 塵表閣本店
Kyorai, the largest room, has both an indoor bath and an open-air bath on the spring.
Note: Five rooms have a hot spring bath. The single room, Kokko, has a unit bath of ordinary heated water, not hot spring water.
Kanbayashi Onsen Jinpyokaku Honten tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityRekishi no Yado Kanaguya
歴史の宿 金具屋
The largest private bath, Saigetsu-no-yu, has a boat-shaped wooden tub under a tile mural of Mount Fuji.
Rekishi no Yado Kanaguya tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilitySekitei Rotenburo no Yado Tawaraya
石庭露天風呂の宿 俵や
The inn calls it one of the largest stone-garden open-air baths in the area.
Sekitei Rotenburo no Yado Tawaraya tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityShibu Hotel
渋ホテル
Both run on free-flowing spring water that the hotel keeps at 42–43°C (108–109°F), a little hot on purpose.
Check availabilityShibu Onsen Daimaruya
渋温泉 大丸屋
Daimaruya calls itself the inn with the private open-air bath.
Shibu Onsen Daimaruya tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityShibu Onsen Kokuya
渋温泉 古久屋
Two of the six springs the inn owns rise beneath the building, and every bath is free-flowing.
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Check availabilityShibu Onsen Yumoto Ryokan
渋温泉 湯本旅館
The two indoor baths, one for men and one for women, are shared.
Shibu Onsen Yumoto Ryokan tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityShoraiso
松籟荘
Yorozuya’s large baths across the road are open to Shoraiso guests under Yorozuya’s rule, which allows only a palm-sized tattoo under a cover seal.
Check availabilityShunran no Yado Sakaeya
春蘭の宿 さかえや
Two room types also have an open-air or half-open bath of their own.
Shunran no Yado Sakaeya tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityTaiyokan Yamatoya
大陽館 ヤマト屋
The inn doesn’t say how the private bath is allotted, so ask at check-in.
Taiyokan Yamatoya tattoo policy → · All Yudanaka and Shibu →
Check availabilityWafu no Yado Masuya
和風の宿 ますや
Masuya draws on four springs, among them the natural spring at Jigokudani it calls its roots.
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Check availabilityYudanaka Onsen Shimaya
湯田中温泉 島屋
The inn describes it as a retro private bath where you can relax without minding anyone around you.
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Check availabilityYudanaka Seifuso
湯田中 清風荘
The tub is Kiso hinoki from trees more than 400 years old, the inn says.
Check availabilityYufuin Onsen
Oyado Nurukawa Onsen
御宿 ぬるかわ温泉
The inn has not published a tattoo rule for its large bath.
Check availabilityRyotei Tanokura
由布院温泉 旅亭 田乃倉
The inn has no private bath to book and publishes no tattoo rule for its two large baths.
Check availabilitySaigakukan
柚富の郷 彩岳館
The ryokan hasn’t published a tattoo rule for its shared baths.
Check availabilitySoan Cosmos
由布院温泉 草庵秋桜
The detached rooms’ open-air baths run on the same free-flowing spring, 24 hours a day.
Check availabilityToshoan
湯布院温泉 東匠庵
Children of any age can stay, so a family can share the room bath.
Check availabilityTsukanoma
由布院温泉 束ノ間
Tsukanoma sets no tattoo rule in writing for its big open-air bath.
Check availabilityYama no Hotel Musouen
山のホテル 夢想園
Day visitors can use the private baths on the regular day ticket.
Check availabilityYufuin Baien Garden Resort
由布院 梅園 GARDEN RESORT
The private baths are meant for families, friends or couples, and each has a baby bed.
Yufuin Baien Garden Resort tattoo policy → · All Yufuin Onsen →
Check availabilityYufuin Bettei Itsuki
由布院別邸 樹
The ryokan publishes no tattoo policy.
Check availabilityYufuin Hanayoshi
朝霧のみえる宿 ゆふいん花由
The inn publishes no tattoo policy for Makoto-no-yu and Megumi-no-yu, its two shared baths.
Check availabilityYufuin Hoteiya
由布院温泉 ほてい屋
The shared open-air bath, Benten-no-yu, has no published tattoo rule.
Check availabilityYufuin Yasuha
由布院温泉 杜の湯 ゆふいん泰葉
The inn publishes no tattoo policy for its large bath or its small indoor baths.
Check availabilityYumura Onsen
Asanoya
湯村温泉 朝野家
The ryokan says even the taps at the basin run on the spring.
Check availabilityKasenkyo Izutsuya
湯村温泉 佳泉郷 井づつや
The large baths are closed to guests with tattoos, and the ryokan’s FAQ points them, in the same answer, to its paid private baths, which you reserve, and to the rooms with an open-air bath of their own. Twenty-three rooms have an open-air bath: eleven source-fed rooms, five Shiori, six Miyabi and one universal-design room.
Check availabilityMidoriya
湯村温泉 緑屋
The hotel has no shared bath at all. Its two indoor baths and its garden open-air bath are each for one party at a time, free, and can’t be reserved: you go in when the sign at the door shows it is empty. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule, and with every bath private there is nothing for one to apply to.
Check availabilityTomiya
湯村温泉 とみや
The ryokan publishes no tattoo policy for its shared baths. Its own booking page sells three room types with an open-air bath fed from the source.
Check availabilityYusen no Yado Yuamu
湧泉の宿 ゆあむ
The ryokan’s FAQ refuses tattoos of any size in the large baths and doesn’t accept a sleeve or other cover either. There is no private bath to reserve, so the way in is one of the four room types with a bath of their own.
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Chikutei
やさしさの宿 竹亭
Chikutei publishes nothing about tattoos for its view bath, so leave that one alone. Some stay plans include a reservable bath free.
Check availabilityHana no Yado Nishikien
花の宿 にしき園
Nishikien publishes nothing about tattoos, so treat its two large baths, Kojo-no-yu for men and Yuzuki-no-yu for women, as closed.
Check availabilityKifunosato
季譜の里
Kifunosato publishes no tattoo rule, so don't count on the two large baths. By the inn's own Q&A, the unit baths in the plain Japanese rooms aren't hot-spring water.
Check availabilityYunogo Grand Hotel
湯郷グランドホテル
Itoen Hotels, which runs the hotel, tells tattooed guests in its FAQ to use the bath in their room or a private bath instead.
Check availabilityYunogokan Will Be
ゆのごう館 Will Be
Nothing here addresses tattoos, so don't count on the four shared tubs.
Check availabilityYunohama Onsen
Umibe no Oyado Ikkyu
海辺のお宿一久
The inn’s water is fully free-flowing and never recirculated, though a little water may be added to adjust the temperature.
Check availabilityYunohama Onsen Ryuu no Yu
龍の湯
Tatsunoyu has had its own spring since 1928, a mild, clear water unlike the salty town spring it also uses.
Yunohama Onsen Ryuu no Yu tattoo policy → · All Yunohama Onsen →
Check availabilityYusuitei Isagoya
游水亭いさごや
The suites are on the 9th and 10th floors, looking straight out over the Sea of Japan.
Check availabilityYunotsu Onsen
Kiunso
寛ぎの宿 輝雲荘
Kiunso publishes no tattoo rule for its two shared baths.
Note: The private bath and the open-air bath are ceramic-mineral water on a recirculating system, not the spring; only the indoor part of the large bath is natural spring water. The inn says so itself.
Check availabilityNakanoya Ryokan
なかのや旅館
There's no shared bath at Nakanoya, and nothing about tattoos appears on the site.
Check availabilityNogawaya
のがわや旅館
No tattoo rule is published for the two shared baths.
Check availabilityYakushiyu
薬師湯
Yakushiyu publishes no tattoo rule for its shared bath.
Echigo-Yuzawa
Echigo no Oyado Inamoto
越後のお宿 いなもと
The rule is on the inn’s onsen page, in its requests to bathers.
Echigo no Oyado Inamoto tattoo policy → · All Echigo-Yuzawa →
Check availabilityHotel Futaba
水が織りなす越後の宿 ホテル双葉
A private bath can also be rented for 45 minutes, booked only at check-in.
Note: In the rooms with an open-air bath, the outdoor tub is hot spring water and the indoor tub is not. The hotel says so.
Check availabilityNagomi no Oyado Takinoyu
和みのお宿 滝乃湯
Two rooms, Kikyo-no-ma and Beniyamazakura-no-ma, have their own free-flowing view bath.
Nagomi no Oyado Takinoyu tattoo policy → · All Echigo-Yuzawa →
Check availabilityOnyuyado Nakaya
越後湯沢温泉 御湯宿 中屋
The rule is on the inn’s hot-spring page, printed under the Yumoto spring that feeds the large bath.
Check availabilityOtowaya Ryokan
音羽屋旅館
The inn says every bath, private ones included, uses natural hot-spring water.
Check availabilityShosenkaku Kagetsu
松泉閣 花月
Only the large baths are filtered. The private bath and the room baths take the spring as it comes from the ground.
Check availabilityYukemuri no Yado Yukinohana
湯けむりの宿 雪の花
The rule is in the hotel’s FAQ, which points tattooed guests to the private baths or the bath in their room.
Yukemuri no Yado Yukinohana tattoo policy → · All Echigo-Yuzawa →
Check availabilityYukiguni no Yado Takahan
雪国の宿 高半
The Ginrei baths use Tamago-no-yu, the inn’s own spring.
Yukiguni no Yado Takahan tattoo policy → · All Echigo-Yuzawa →
Check availabilityYuzawa Grand Hotel
湯沢グランドホテル
The house rules cover even a small fashion tattoo and ask for a jacket or other cover in the lobby and restaurants. The English FAQ asks guests with tattoos not to use the large bath.
Check availabilityZao Onsen
Gokan-no-yu Tsuruya
五感の湯つるや
All four private baths run on the inn’s own spring, which rises naturally 300 meters (980 ft) from the building.
Check availabilityMeitoya So
名湯舎 創
The inn’s rock-cut open-air bath and wooden indoor bath have no published tattoo rule.
Check availabilityMiyamaso Takamiya
深山荘 高見屋
The inn has published no tattoo rule for its shared baths, Choju-no-yu and Seseragi-no-yu.
Check availabilityMogami Takayu Zenshichi-no-yu
最上高湯 善七乃湯
The inn sets no tattoo rule for its stone large bath or its garden open-air baths.
Mogami Takayu Zenshichi-no-yu tattoo policy → · All Zao Onsen →
Check availabilityMori no Hotel Waldberg
堺屋・森のホテル ヴァルトベルク
One private bath has both an open-air and an indoor tub, free-flowing from the hotel’s own source. Staying guests pay ¥2,200 for 45 minutes and day visitors ¥3,300, booked at the front desk. The hotel’s pages say nothing about tattoos.
Check availabilityPension Boku no Uchi
ペンション ぼくのうち
The pension describes the bathroom as big enough for two or three adults and used privately by families and couples.
Check availabilityPetit Resort Hotel Der Barte
プチリゾートホテル デァヴェルテ
The hotel has one bath, a view bath, and it is used by one party at a time: free for guests, 40 minutes a turn, around the clock. The hotel says plainly that it is not a hot spring. Its pages say nothing about tattoos.
Petit Resort Hotel Der Barte tattoo policy → · All Zao Onsen →
Check availabilityTakamiya Hotel Lucent
名湯リゾート ルーセントタカミヤ
The hotel sets no tattoo rule for its three shared baths or its sauna.
Check availabilityTakamiya Hotel Rurikura Resort
たかみや瑠璃倶楽リゾート
The hotel publishes no tattoo policy for its shared bath, SPA Yururi, and has no private bath to reserve. Six rooms have a semi-open-air tub of their own, which the hotel says is not hot spring but heated water with aroma oil.
Takamiya Hotel Rurikura Resort tattoo policy → · All Zao Onsen →
Check availabilityWakamatsuya
和歌の宿 わかまつや
The inn publishes no tattoo rule for its two shared baths.
Check availabilityZao Kokusai Hotel
蔵王国際ホテル
The hotel’s rule covers the large bath and the open-air bath.
Check availabilityWhat happens when you arrive
Do not use the shared baths; the rule there is a refusal, and the private bath is why the place is listed. Reserve it the way the property requires. Each listing says whether that is a time slot booked ahead, a request at check-in, or a phone call. Once the door is closed, the bath is yours.
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