Saihocho, on the hillside west of the castle, about ten minutes by car from JR Takamatsu Hot spring hotel above the city with open-air bath rooms ★★★★☆

Yunagi-no-Yu Hotel Hanajukai

夕凪の湯 HOTEL 花樹海

Does Yunagi-no-Yu Hotel Hanajukai allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A hillside hotel over Takamatsu where ten rooms have their own bath, eight of them cut from a single slab of granite and filled with the hotel’s own spring.

Ten of the forty-five rooms have a bath of their own: three Japanese-Western rooms and five Japanese rooms with a tub cut from a single slab of granite, one room with a boat-shaped open-air tub, and the top suites with a cypress view bath. Those are on the hotel’s spring water and they settle the question without a policy. Three other rooms have an open-air jacuzzi that the hotel says plainly is not spring-fed. Nothing on the site addresses tattoos in the panoramic shared bath.

Show this at the front desk

天然一枚岩をくり抜いた露天風呂で当館自慢の【温泉】も堪能でき、 より一層部屋で過ごす時間をお愉しみいただけます。

The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.

Where it is

Okayama STN Marine Liner, JR’s rapid train 53 min from Okayama Matsuyama STN Hotel location
Takamatsu STN
Dogo is 25 minutes on the tram from Matsuyama station. Takamatsu, Kotohira and the Iya valley are quicker from Okayama, over the Seto Ohashi bridge: 53 minutes on the Marine Liner to Takamatsu, 1 h 16 to Kotohira, and the Nanpu limited express to Oboke for the Iya bus. Matsuyama itself is 2 h 45 from Okayama on the Shiokaze.. Yunagi-no-Yu Hotel Hanajukai · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR All Shikoku Rail Pass Three to seven days, from 12,000 yen, on every JR Shikoku train, with non-reserved seats on the limited expresses. It starts at Kojima, the first stop on the Shikoku side of the line from Okayama, so Okayama to Kojima is a short separate fare. It covers the Marine Liner from Kojima to Takamatsu and the Ishizuchi to Matsuyama. 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 — bath structure, not a tattoo policy. The room page at hanajyukai.jp/room/ names each bath room and marks which tubs are on spring water, and the facilities page counts them. Thirty pages of the site were read for private baths and forty-five for tattoo text; the tattoo crawl found nothing anywhere.

Read on: hanajyukai.jp/room/

Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants a granite tub on a private balcony with the Inland Sea in front of it

The designer rooms and the Ao-no-Rakuen sky suite have an open-air jacuzzi rather than a spring bath, and the hotel writes it out: こちらの露天ジャグジー風呂は「温泉給湯」ではございません. The spring is a sodium hydrogen-carbonate cold mineral water. The shared bath is a panoramic one looking over the Inland Sea and the city; the sky lounge off the lobby has a free foot bath. Forty-five rooms in all.

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