Tattoo friendly onsen and sento in Sapporo

Mitsui Garden Hotel Sapporo

三井ガーデンホテル札幌

No cover-up needed. The property’s own bath page carries the sentence Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management put on all 24 of its bath-equipped hotels: the tattoo restriction has been abolished. There is no size limit and no seal to buy. Drunk guests are the only people the page turns away.

当ホテルではボディアート・タトゥ等の受入制限を撤廃しております。

Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants the rule in writing within a few minutes of Sapporo Station

Second floor, guests only, free, 15:00 to 09:00 the next morning. The bath reopened on 2026-02-01 after a refit; the hotel describes tiling meant to suggest Sapporo soft stone and a stone garden outside the window standing in for a snowfield. Bring your own towel from the room. No sauna listed. A utility lounge on the same floor has a coffee machine and vending machines.

Mitsui Garden Hotel Sapporo West

三井ガーデンホテル札幌ウエスト

Tattoos are not restricted here. The bath page states that the hotel has removed its body-art and tattoo restriction, the same wording the operator uses across its bath-equipped properties. Nothing has to be covered and nothing has to be declared at reception.

当ホテルではボディアート・タトゥ等の受入制限を撤廃しております。

Best for: Soaking half out of the water on the tub’s built-in step after a day on foot downtown

Second floor, guests only, free, 15:00 to 09:00. The tub is stepped so you can sit in it to the waist rather than the shoulders. The women’s changing room has a powder corner stocked with skincare; towels come from the guest room. Two hundred meters from its sister hotel, and the pair share one rule.

A-SAUNA

エーサウナ

Tattoos are welcome without restriction, and the operator says so twice on its own site, once on the front page and once in its FAQ. Because you rent the room outright there is nobody else in it to mind. Mixed groups are asked to wear swimwear; that is the only clothing rule.

当店はタトゥーが入っている方でも制限なくご利用いただけます。完全個室ですので周りを気にせずおくつろぎください。

Best for: A tattooed traveler in Susukino at three in the morning with nowhere else to go

This is a sauna suite, not a bathhouse: a 3.2 m² private room with a Harvia stove set around 100°, up to four people, no communal bath and no hot spring. Ninety-minute slots, 5,000 yen for one non-member, 3,600 yen on a monthly membership, with a 10 percent surcharge for check-in between 22:00 and 05:00. Towels, amenities and mineral water are in the price. Open 24 hours, which is rare in Sapporo.

Lively by Euphoria faste

ライブリー バイ ユーフォリア ファステ

The FAQ answers the question in one line: yes, you may use the place with tattoos. No cover, no seal, no size limit is mentioned. Sauna wear is provided but the operator says wearing it in the sauna room is up to you.

◆タトゥーが入っていても利用できますか？ はい。タトゥーが入っていてもご利用いただけます。

Best for: A tattooed woman who wants a quiet daytime sweat in the middle of the city

Reservation only, and the hours split by sex: women 10:30 to 19:30, men 19:30 to 21:30. A shower room and a changing room rather than a bath — there is no tub and no hot spring. Amenities are laid out so you can come empty-handed. A kashikiri plan books the whole place for a group; the standard course shares it. Same-day cancellation is 1,100 yen. Parking at the Sapporo Grand Hotel is 800 yen for three hours.

Sugoi Sauna Sapporo Susukino

スゴイサウナ 札幌すすきの店

Tattooed guests are admitted, on terms the operator spells out. You declare the tattoo before you use the place and register as a member, free, with a photograph of your face, and staff may ask for ID at the door. Tattoos totaling A4 or less across the whole body may be left uncovered; anything larger has to be covered entirely with seals, except on days the operator designates as tattoo days. Turning up uncovered without declaring it can cost you the membership.

タトゥーがある方も当施設をご利用いただけます。①事前申告と会員登録／本施設をご利用になる前に、タトゥーがある方はその旨を申告していただき、利用規約に同意の上、顔写真登録を含む会員登録（無料）が必要です。②タトゥーの露出について／全身あわせてA4サイズ以下のタトゥーは、隠さずご利用いただけます。A4サイズを超えるタトゥーは、シール等で全体を覆っていただく必要があります。但し、施設が指定する日（タトゥー可能day等）は、タトゥーを覆う必要はありません。

Best for: A tattoo you are willing to register with a photograph in exchange for sweating uncovered

A4 measured across the whole body rather than per piece is a threshold this guide has not met before, and so is the photo-registered membership. A separate post dated 2026-02-25 records an every-day, any-size window that ran from 2026-02-16 and was extended to 2026-03-30, with declaration and photo registration still mandatory. That window has expired, so the A4 rule is the standing one. This is a sauna rather than a bathhouse: a Fuji lava-stone room at about 65° and 60 percent humidity, a filtered recirculating cold bath, and a cafe called Water Seven on the same floor. Basement of the Okura building. The site’s facility block lists 11:00 to 06:00 while a news post of 2026-08-01 announces round-the-clock opening, so check before a small-hours visit.

Keio Prelia Hotel Sapporo

京王プレリアホテル札幌

Tattooed guests are refused at the door of the bath unless the tattoo is covered, and the hotel hands out the covers free to anyone who asks. Two sizes are stocked: a large 9.5 × 14 cm and a standard 7.5 × 9.5 cm. That large size is the most generous free seal found anywhere in Sapporo.

※泥酔者および刺青（入れ墨）・タトゥーをされている方のご利用・ご入場はお断りいたします。タトゥーカバーシール（大判サイズ9.5cm×14cm、標準サイズ7.5cm×9.5cm）は、ご希望の方に無料で配布いたします。

Best for: A tattoo about the size of a postcard and a free sticker to put over it

The page does not cap the number of seals, only lists the two sizes. Second-floor bath looking onto a small courtyard garden, with partitioned washing stations. Open 15:00 to 25:00, last entry 24:30, then 05:00 to 10:00, last entry 09:30. Free to guests. You may walk up in room nightwear and slippers, but towels come from the room. There is a women-only post-bath lounge with individual dressers.

karaksa hotel Sapporo

からくさホテル札幌

Tattoos are refused in principle, but the hotel supplies cover seals at the front desk and you may bathe if the tattoo is completely hidden by them. Ask at reception when you check in. The refusal names stick-on paint tattoos too, so the hotel’s own seals are the only accepted covering.

刺青やタトゥー（ペイントシールを含む）のあるお客様のご入浴は原則お断りしておりますが、当ホテルがご用意するカバーシールで完全に覆える場合はご利用可能です。ご入用の際は、フロントまでお申し付けください。

Best for: A late soak outdoors in Sapporo cold, since the bath stays open past two in the morning

The hotel publishes no seal size and no count, which is unusual and worth settling at the desk before you pay. Bath and open-air bath on the second floor, 15:00 to 26:00 and 04:00 to 09:00, free to guests, bathing tax included in the room rate. Towels come from the room, not the changing area. Lounge IRORI on the same floor is open 24 hours with free drinks around a sunken hearth.

Spa Alpa at Hotel Emisia Sapporo

リラクゼーション スパ・アルパ／ホテルエミシア札幌

You may bathe if a single 8 × 12 cm cover hides the tattoo. Covers are sold at the spa front desk for 300 yen. Anything a single cover cannot reach, or a full body piece, is refused. The hotel is unusually explicit about why it draws the line where it does rather than at the door.

タトゥーカバー1枚（8cm✕12cm）でカバーできる場合に限りご入浴いただけます。ホテルでは外国人と日本人でタトゥーに対する考え方に文化的な違いがあることや、スポーツ団体の受入に積極的に取り組んでいることから、タトゥーのある方の利用一切を拒絶することは人種や宗教を差別することにもなると考えています。しかし、全身に及ぶタトゥーやカバーしきれない範囲のタトゥーのある方はスパのご利用、ご入浴はお断りしております。

Best for: One small tattoo and a whole afternoon to spend, out on the line toward the airport

One cover only, so this is the tightest allowance of any Sapporo facility that allows anything. Basement floor, 2,000 m², and not a hot spring: heated water with a reclining bath, jacuzzi, hyper-jet bath, cold bath, Kneipp shower, far-infrared sauna and mist sauna. Day entry 2,600 yen; Thursdays are a Spa Day at 1,300 yen. A separate notice dated 2026-09-09 permits purpose-made bathing wear over surgical and skin-graft scars, which is a different rule and does not extend to tattoos. The spa closed for a refit from 2025-10-29 to 2025-12-26, so confirm it is open before making the trip out.

APA Hotel Sapporo Odori Ekimae Minami

アパホテル〈札幌大通駅前南〉

APA refuses tattooed guests from its large baths and will remove anyone found inside, with one exception: if the tattoo fits under no more than two of the company’s own 10 × 12 cm point cover seals, you may bathe. Overnight guests get two seals free per person per night, handed over one night at a time, so you collect them each time you go down.

入れ墨（タトゥー）をされた方のご入場は固くお断りいたします。ご入場後でもその事実が判明した時点で、直ちに退去していただきます。ただし、当社指定のシール(ポイントタトゥカバーシール)[サイズ10cm×12cm]2枚以内でタトゥーを覆うことが出来る場合には大浴殿を利用できます。

Best for: Two small pieces you can cover yourself, on a walkable block west of Odori Park

Two seals is a hard cap, so a sleeve does not pass. The property lists a daiyokujo and an open-air bath among its facilities, 262 rooms, check-in 15:00 and out 10:00. Day-spa visitors buy the seals rather than getting them free. Of APA’s eight own-brand hotels in Sapporo, only this one and APA Hotel & Resort Sapporo were confirmed to have a large bath.

APA Hotel & Resort Sapporo

アパホテル＆リゾート〈札幌〉

The same company rule applies: refused unless two or fewer of APA’s own 10 × 12 cm point cover seals hide the tattoo completely. Overnight guests are given two free per person per night at the front desk, reissued each night rather than for the whole stay.

入れ墨（タトゥー）をされた方のご入場は固くお断りいたします。ご入場後でもその事実が判明した時点で、直ちに退去していただきます。ただし、当社指定のシール(ポイントタトゥカバーシール)[サイズ10cm×12cm]2枚以内でタトゥーを覆うことが出来る場合には大浴殿を利用できます。

Best for: A bath at the edge of the city on the road out to the mountains, with a bus back into town

APA calls the water a radium artificial hot spring rather than a natural source. This is the only Sapporo property the company lists on its own spa index. It sits out in Kawazoe in Minami-ku, roughly thirty minutes by bus from stop 26 at Sapporo Station to Kawazoe 5-jo 2-chome, then two minutes on foot. The two-seal cap still applies.

Dansetsu Sapporo

暖雪 札幌

Book one of the upper-floor rooms and the bathing question does not come up: the Premier Twin has an artificial hot-spring bath in its own wet room, and the two sauna room types add a private sauna with a chilled cold bath. The hotel publishes no tattoo rule for its ground-floor shared bath, and silence there is not permission, so treat the room as the answer.

Best for: Bathing and sweating entirely inside your own room, ten floors above Susukino

Three room types have a real wet room with a washing area rather than a unit bath, and the hotel confirms the bath is separated from the toilet in them. Premier Twin, 43 m², 8 rooms on floors 10 to 12, artificial hot spring and overhead shower. Sauna Premier Twin, 39 m², 12 rooms, self-loyly stove and a chiller-fed cold bath. Sauna Suite, 63 m², 2 rooms, sleeps four. Guests in those rooms also get a dedicated lounge with free drinks. The shared first-floor bath is trucked-in alkaline simple spring water designed by Kentaro Imai, open 15:00 to 25:00 and 06:00 to 10:00, but it carries no tattoo wording at all. Sapporo charges bathing tax of 150 yen per person per night here.