Hotel Shirahamakan
白浜館
Does Hotel Shirahamakan allow tattoos? In a private bath
The large bath is closed to guests with tattoos of any size. Fourteen rooms have an open-air spring bath of their own.
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.
The bath
Ground-floor rooms have a rock bath in a small garden, and second-floor rooms a cypress bath on the balcony; eleven Japanese twin rooms are built this way. Two semi-suites have a rock bath and a barrel bath each, and the detached Kainanso has a tub made from a plum barrel. In every one, only the outdoor tub is spring water. The indoor bath is not, and the hotel says the room baths have no view.
The shared baths, the ones closed to tattoos, have three open-air tubs for each sex. In winter the hotel may close the open-air ones when the source runs low.
The hotel
Forty-one rooms and no elevator. Check-in is 3 p.m. and checkout is 11 a.m. Another eleven rooms have a private foot bath, which is not a bathing tub.
Good to know
- Tattoos are refused in the large bath, at any size.
- The indoor room tub is not spring water. The outdoor one is.
Getting there
Shirahama STN · JR Kisei line
About 15 minutes by bus to Shirarahama, then 1 minute on foot; 10 minutes by taxi.
From Shin-Osaka, the Kuroshio limited express reaches Shirahama in about 2 hours 20 minutes. The hotel’s free shuttle is by reservation only.
Where it is
- JR Kuroshio limited express 2 hr 30 min from Osaka
- bus 15 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Kansai Wide Area Pass ¥12,000 · 5 days Worth it if you’re riding the Kuroshio to Shirahama and back.
- Wakayama and Shirahama coast day tour Toretore fish market, Shirahama and the Senjojiki rock shelf, from Osaka.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
Use the bath in your room, or reserve a private bath.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the hotel’s hot-spring page and room page)
刺青（入れ墨）・タトゥーをされているお客様につきましては、大小にかかわらず、大浴場のご利用をご遠慮いただいております。
This is the rule for the shared baths. It doesn’t apply to the private baths.
Best for: a room with its own spring bath right on Shirarahama beach
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