Shirahama, on the hill above Yuzaki Ryokan, every room with an open-air bath ★★★★½

Hotel Tenzankaku Kaiyutei

ホテル天山閣 海ゆぅ庭

Does Hotel Tenzankaku Kaiyutei allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Every one of the 24 rooms has an open-air bath of its own on free-flowing spring water. The ryokan publishes no tattoo policy.

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.

What the hotel says about its baths

和室、和洋室、和モダンの3タイプと、別荘スタイルの2棟がそろい、どのお部屋もオーシャンビューが自慢の露天風呂付です

The operator’s own wording.

Illustration of Hotel Tenzankaku Kaiyutei in Shirahama, on the hill above Yuzaki

The bath

Each room’s open-air bath runs on free-flowing spring water around the clock, drawn from the Miyuki source, and the ryokan says nothing is artificial. Most tubs are cypress and face the ocean. The two detached villas add an indoor cypress bath to the open-air one.

The hotel

Twenty-four rooms on high ground: twenty Japanese rooms of ten tatami mats, two Japanese-Western twins and two villas. Check-in is 3 to 6 p.m. and checkout is 11 a.m. A bathing tax of ¥150 is added.

Good to know

Getting there

Shirahama STN · JR Kisei line
About 20 minutes by bus to Shin-Yuzaki.

From Shin-Osaka, the Kuroshio limited express reaches Shirahama in about 2 hours 20 minutes. The free association shuttle leaves the station at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., but not on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays.

Where it is

Shin-Osaka STN Shirahama STN change JR Kuroshio limited express 2 hr 30 min Kii-Katsuura STN ✈Kansai Airport Hotel location
  1. JR Kuroshio limited express 2 hr 30 min from Osaka
  2. bus 15 min
The solid blue line is JR from Kansai Airport, which meets this route at Hineno on its way to Tennoji. Hotel Tenzankaku Kaiyutei · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

What happens when you arrive

Use the bath in your room.

How we know

Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site (the operator’s own bath and room pages)

Best for: couples who want an ocean-view bath on the room and no shared bath to think about

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