Tonosho, three minutes on foot from Angel Road Seafront hotel with two open-air spring baths at the waterline ★★★★☆

Shodoshima International Hotel

小豆島国際ホテル

Does Shodoshima International Hotel allow tattoos? Yes, covered

Cover seal required

Two seals from the front desk, and then an open-air tub so close to the waterline that the hotel had to fence it off from the Angel Road crowds.

Allowed if two cover seals hide the tattoo, and the hotel supplies them. Ask at the front desk for the 8 cm by 10 cm seals; the bath is open to you if the tattoo vanishes under two of them. If it will not, the top-floor executive room has an open-air tub of its own and no rule attached to it, which is the second way in here.

Show this at the front desk

※入れ墨、タトゥーを入れている方の大浴場のご入浴は、原則お断りしております。ただし、8cm×10cmのカバーシール2枚を貼って隠せる場合のみご入浴いただけます。カバーシールはフロントにお申し付けください。

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 Hotel location
Tonosho port STN
Matsuyama is the door for Dogo and Imabari. The rest are quicker from Okayama, over the Seto Ohashi bridge: Takamatsu 53 minutes, Kochi 2 h 24 on the Nanpu. Shodoshima is a boat from Takamatsu port, and Naruto the Uzushio limited express from Takamatsu by way of Tokushima.. Shodoshima International Hotel · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

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

Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, to the size on this page. How the seals work, and where to buy them →

How we know

Confirmed from official site (the 温泉 page, in the notes under the bath table)

Read on: shodoshima-kh.jp/spa/

Best for: Walking out of a bath at the waterline and onto the sandbar to Yoshima at low tide

Two baths that swap sexes: オリーブの湯 at 83 m² and 浜風の湯 at 60 m², both 15:00 to 24:00 and 05:00 to 09:00. The house is blunt about what is thermal: 温泉は露天風呂のみとなっており、内湯は沸かし湯となっております, so only the open-air tubs carry the spring, an alkaline hypotonic low-temperature water drawn at 28.0°C from Yakatazaki and heated to 42.0°C. 浜風の湯 sits so close to Angel Road that the hotel has fenced the view for privacy and says so. Guests over twelve pay a 150 yen bathing tax. The 露天風呂付きエグゼクティブルーム is 60 m² for four or five people at the top of the main building. There is also a seasonal garden pool and a pair of Yadon-themed rooms.

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