Bay Resort Hotel Shodoshima
ベイリゾートホテル小豆島
Does Bay Resort Hotel Shodoshima allow tattoos? In a private bath
Five log huts along the shore, each with an open-air tub for one party at a time and a door that shuts behind you.
The twelfth-floor bath is closed to tattooed guests and the FAQ repeats it without offering a seal. What is open is the row of five private open-air baths, each let to one party of up to four or five for 45 minutes at 3,000 yen, with their own dressing table and their own entrance. The same water reaches them. If you are here in summer, the FAQ also says the pool is fine as long as swimwear or a rash guard covers the tattoo.
Show this at the front desk
入れ墨・タトゥーがある場合は大浴場はご利用いただけません。プールについては、水着やラッシュガードで隠せる場合はご利用可能です。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Takamatsu port STN
Ferry from Takamatsu port 35 min by boat
Matsuyama STN
Okayama STN
Tonosho port STN
Hotel location
Takamatsu to Shodoshima ferry ticket A round-trip ferry ticket between Takamatsu port and Ikeda port on Shodoshima, exchanged for a paper ticket at the pier. Ikeda is a different port from Tonosho, so check which one your hotel is nearer. Sold on Klook.
What happens when you arrive
Skip the shared baths and reserve the private one the way this page describes. Once the door is closed, the bath is yours.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the 温泉 page carries the shared-bath refusal and the private-bath block; the FAQ answers the tattoo question directly)
Read on: bayresort-shodoshima.jp/spa/
Best for: Booking 45 minutes of the Inland Sea for four people and nobody else
The private baths are log-cabin style huts, 15:00 to 24:00 with the last party shown in at 23:00. The shared bath sits on the twelfth floor with glass across the front and the ceiling, plus its own open-air tub, a far-infrared sauna and a shampoo bar; guests bathe 15:00 to 24:00 and 06:00 to 10:00, sauna until 22:00. The spring is the hotel’s own, 湯元しょうどしま温泉 雅の湯, drawn from 1,600 m under the grounds: an iron and carbon dioxide bearing sodium chloride water, hypertonic, neutral at pH 6.4 and cold at source. The refusal wording on the bath page is ※刺青（ファッションタトゥー含む）をされている方、過度の飲酒をされている方のご利用およびスマートフォン・携帯電話のお持ち込みはご遠慮ください。 Same owner as Shodoshima International Hotel.
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