Hakone Kowakien Yunessun — Mori-no-Yu
森の湯
Cover seal required: 2 designated seals must fully cover the tattoo.
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Book admission →日帰り温泉
Day-use onsen and super sento that admit tattoos
What a day-use onsen is
A day-use onsen (higaeri onsen) is a bathhouse you visit for a few hours without staying the night. You buy a ticket at the door or online, and it covers the baths and usually the towels. In the countryside it may be a single hot spring bathhouse in the hills; in the cities it is often a spa on spring water with indoor and open-air baths, saunas and a place to rest.
A super sento (sūpā sentō) is the big version: one admission, usually between about 1,000 and 3,500 yen, covers many baths, saunas, rest areas with reclining chairs, a restaurant, and the loungewear you wear around the building. Many stay open late or around the clock, and the largest add pools, bedrock baths and private bath rooms. Both kinds are listed here.
What to bring
Usually nothing. Towels and loungewear are included or rented at the desk, and many sell tickets online in advance, often a little cheaper than at the door.
Tattoos at a day-use onsen
Rules here tend to be strict, because at the bigger places you walk around the building in the house loungewear, not only in the bath. Many that admit tattoos do so under the house’s own cover seals, and the size and number allowed differ a lot from one to the next.
All 22, by area
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Hakone
Hakone Kowakien Yunessun — Yunessun (swimsuit pools)
Allowed if fully covered by a rash guard or similar swimwear.
Book admission →Hakone Yuryo
箱根湯寮
Fully OK, no restrictions in any bath area (policy lifted Apr 1, 2025)
Book admission →Konohana no Yu, Gotemba
木の花の湯
No restrictions. The house lifted its tattoo restriction on 1 April 2025, citing more overseas visitors and changing lifestyles, and only guests connected to organized crime are still refused.
Book admission →Tokyo area
Izumi Tenku no Yu Haneda Airport
泉天空の湯 羽田空港
Admitted with nothing to cover. We contacted both Villa Fontaine hotels in this building directly on 7 September 2026 and were told there are no tattoo restrictions at Izumi Tenku no Yu. Nothing on the bath’s own pages says so either way, and the size question went unanswered.
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Jindaiji Onsen Yumori no Sato
深大寺天然温泉 湯守の里
Admitted only if the tattoo can be hidden with a sticker or something similar; anyone who comes in uncovered is asked by staff to leave. The facility names no size and sells no seal of its own, so bring your own cover.
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Maenohara Onsen Sayano Yudokoro
前野原温泉 さやの湯処
Admitted if the tattoo is completely covered by no more than two of the facility’s own cover seals, 11×20 cm (4.3×7.9 in), sold at the desk for 310 yen each. Refusing to buy or wear them means being refused. In force since 25 February 2024; before that the bath refused tattoos outright.
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Narita Airport Onsen Sora no Yu
成田空港温泉 空の湯
Private baths for anything larger than a palm. Since 1 September 2022 the third-floor communal baths refuse tattoos, but the same notice keeps admitting small ones, “about the size that a palm would cover”, on the stated reasoning that they intimidate nobody. The second-floor reservable baths are exempt altogether and carry no restriction.
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Check availabilityNarita no Meisen Yamato no Yu
成田の命泉 大和の湯
Admitted with nothing to cover, and the facility says so in writing. Its own FAQ page states that people with irezumi or fashion tattoos may use it, and explains why: it sits beside Narita Airport, Japan’s front door, and takes the view that admitting tattoos is the reasonable international rule. Confirmed again by telephone on 7 September 2026, no restriction at all.
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Spa & Hotel Maihama Eurasia
スパ＆ホテル 舞浜ユーラシア
Private bath in the room, for anything four seals cannot cover. The spa’s own terms admit a tattoo hidden by up to four of its seals, 10×15 cm (3.9×5.9 in) each, bought at the spa counter, seals you bring are not accepted, and refuse anything larger outright, in any circumstances. The balcony rooms have a bathroom with a washing area and the spring water piped in, which is the answer for a larger piece.
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Check availabilityThermae-Yu Shinjuku
テルマー湯 新宿店
Admitted, but the rule differs by sex and by residency: the only facility surveyed that does this. Overseas tourists (passport or air ticket required, arrival within 90 days) may bathe wearing one facility-issued seal, 330 yen. Women of any nationality may enter with fashion tattoos; anything over 30×30 cm (11.8×11.8 in) needs a purchased seal. Japanese men and long-term residents are refused regardless of size, and a seal does not help.
Tokyo Toyosu Manyo Club
東京豊洲 万葉倶楽部
Admitted if covered by up to two facility-issued seals, each a maximum of 11×20 cm (4.3×7.9 in). The seals must stay on for the whole visit, not just in the bath, and the tattoo must be declared at reception. Turning up without declaring it means being asked to leave.
Book admission →Tokyo Yugawara Onsen Manyo no Yu Machida
東京・湯河原温泉 万葉の湯 町田
Tattoos hidden by up to two of the facility’s own cover seals, 11×20 cm (4.3×7.9 in) each, are admitted to the shared baths under a notice of 12 September 2025; anything larger, or any seal you brought yourself, is refused. For work two seals cannot cover, the eighth floor has rooms with their own open-air bath and a reservable kashikiri bath, all on the Yugawara spring water the place trucks in every day.
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Book admission →Yokohama Minatomirai Manyo Club
横浜みなとみらい 万葉倶楽部
Admitted if covered by up to two facility-issued seals of maximum 11×20 cm (4.3×7.9 in). Seals stay on throughout the building, not just in the bath, and the tattoo must be declared at reception.
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Book admission →Osaka area
Hanayama Onsen Yakushi-no-Yu
花山温泉 薬師の湯
Admitted since 1 July 2025 if a single cover seal of 11×20 cm (4.3×7.9 in), bought from the ticket machine, covers the tattoo completely. Refusing to use the facility’s own seal means refusal of entry. Before that date the ban was absolute.
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Check availabilitySolaniwa Onsen Osaka Bay Tower
空庭温泉 OSAKA BAY TOWER
Refused by default, with an exception: buy the facility’s cover seals at reception and cover the tattoo completely, including anything visible from the yukata worn inside, and you are admitted. The scheme is described as a trial. Sizes and prices are published only as an image, so confirm at the desk.
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Book admission →Umekita Onsen Ren Wellbeing Park
うめきた温泉 蓮 Wellbeing Park
Refused by default, with an exception: fashion tattoos that four of the facility’s own paid cover seals, 11.4×20 cm (4.5×7.9 in) each, hide completely are admitted with the seals applied. The rule covers the whole building, pools and gym included, and seals you bring yourself are not the ones named.
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Book admission →Kyoto area
Kurama Onsen
くらま温泉
No restrictions, stated plainly on the facility’s own site. The only unconditional day-use bath found anywhere in Kyoto.
Book admission →Atami
Marine Spa Atami
マリンスパあたみ
Cover it and come in. The city’s own house rules ask guests with tattoos to hide them with taping or a rash guard: a request for cooperation rather than a refusal, and the only day-use bathing in Atami that admits tattooed visitors at all. It is a swimsuit facility: hot spring water, but pools and slides rather than a naked bath.
Yumura Onsen
Refresh Park Yumura
リフレッシュパークゆむら
Refused, unless covered: the house rules list tattooed guests among those not admitted and add, in the same line, that a body seal or similar will do. It is a swimsuit facility: five open-air baths up a long flight of steps, mixed, with a waterfall bath and a sake-barrel one, so most of the covering is done by the swimsuit anyway. 1,000 yen, ten to seven, closed Thursdays.
Beppu Onsen
Hyotan Onsen
ひょうたん温泉
Hyotan has taken tattooed bathers since it opened, and its owner says so in his own words on the city’s site. Note that Hyotan’s own website, including its long FAQ, publishes no tattoo rule at all; the city’s tourism listing carries the タトゥー可 mark and the city’s 2026 guide names Hyotan first among tattoo-friendly baths. Every bath here is shared and nude except the rented family baths.
Yuto Pia Hamawaki
湯都ピア浜脇
The city built this place and still runs it, and its own tourism data marks it as a bath tattooed visitors may use. Beppu’s 2026 tattoo map lists it in the same group, under public baths rather than private ones. Bathing here is done nude in the bathing zone, so nothing is hidden and nothing needs to be.