Tattoo friendly onsen in Shirahama

Nanki-Shirahama Marriott Hotel

南紀白浜マリオットホテル

Two seals’ worth, 8×10 cm each: a tattoo that two of them hide completely may use the top-floor baths, and one they do not cannot. The hotel says to ask the front desk for the seals. If yours is bigger than that, the five private baths on the same floor are the way in — 3,000 yen for fifty minutes on a weekday, 3,500 on a holiday, all of them looking at the Pacific.

タトゥー（入れ墨）を入れている方のご入浴はお断りしています。ただし、カバーシール（8cm×10cm）2枚でタトゥーを隠していただける場合のみご入浴可能です。

Best for: A small tattoo in the rooftop bath, or a large one in a private bath with the same view

160 cm² across two seals is the same allowance Hoshino Resorts used to publish and less than Route Inn's single 11.4×20. The five private baths are the hotel's answer for anything bigger.

Shiraraso Grand Hotel

白良荘グランドホテル

Two seals’ worth, about 7×11 cm each. The hotel’s bath page refuses tattooed guests in one sentence and lets them in in the next, on condition that two cover seals hide the tattoo completely. There is also a private bath for guests, 2,200 yen for forty-five minutes, which is the route for anything larger.

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・ご入場はお断りしております。ただし、タトゥーカバーシール（約7cm×11cm）2枚で隠せる場合は入浴いただけます。

Best for: The beach itself: it is across the road, and the two bath halls look at it

Two bath halls, Shiokaze and Matsukaze, which swap between men and women at 15:00 and 5:00. The private bath runs 16:00 to 23:00 and 7:30 to 8:30 and is for staying guests.

Point Vacation Nanki-Shirahama

ポイントバケーション南紀白浜

Two seals’ worth. The group states that a tattoo may bathe if it fits under two of its own cover seals, 10×15 cm each and 250 yen at the front desk — 300 cm², the largest allowance in Shirahama. The property is a members’ club first, and sells its unbooked rooms to visitors, so check the plan you are booking is one of those.

刺青 ・ タトゥーがある方につきましては、施設指定のカバーシール2枚で覆うことができるサイズに限り、ご入浴・プール施設をご利用いただけます。

Best for: The biggest seal allowance in town, if a visitor plan is open

The seal size and price are in the group FAQ: タトゥーカバーシール 10cm×15cm, 250 yen a sheet, sold at the desk. The property page publishes no separate rule. Large bath and open-air bath for each sex, a sauna, and jacuzzi baths in the premium rooms.

Hamachidori 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.

当館では「刺青」が入った方の大浴場のご利用はご遠慮いただいております。貸切露天風呂をご利用をお願いしております。

Best for: A tattooed guest who wants an open-air bath over the Pacific without negotiating for it

The house also has a mixed-bathing open-air bath entered in bathing wear, ninety steps down toward the sea. The FAQ answer names the private baths and not that one, so ask at the desk before using it. Same company as Dormy Inn and La Vista Kusatsu Hills, and the same answer as La Vista: private baths, not seals.

FIVE SPRING RESORT THE SHIRAHAMA

Every room has its own hot spring bath, fed around the clock from the source. There is a large bath as well and no published rule about it — the room bath needs none.

Best for: The most comfortable way in Shirahama to make the question irrelevant

The site's wording is 全室24時間湯元源泉掛け流し温泉完備: source-fed hot spring water in every room, all day. No tattoo policy is published; ask when you book if you want one in writing.

INFINITO 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.

Best for: A sunset over the sea from a bath nobody else is in

The suites are the Ocean View Lanai Suite and the Ocean View Lanai Junior Suite, both described as 温泉露天風呂付 with 源泉かけ流し. The other room types share the baths downstairs. No tattoo policy is published.

Hotel Sanrakuso

ホテル三楽荘

The rooms on the top two floors have an open-air bath of their own, looking at the beach. The two large baths downstairs run on two different springs and carry no published rule, so the room is the answer.

Best for: Two springs in one building, one of them in your own room

The ninth-floor Mashirano rooms and the eighth-floor Hama Suisho rooms are the ones with an open-air bath. The hotel draws on two sources, a mountain spring and a sea one, for its bath halls. No tattoo policy is published.