Hotel Route Inn Takamatsu Yashima
ホテルルートイン高松屋島
Does Hotel Route Inn Takamatsu Yashima allow tattoos? Covered, and not spring water
The only Route Inn in Takamatsu, at the foot of Yashima, where the top-floor bath runs from five in the morning until two the next and the water is made rather than drawn.
Route Inn publishes one rule for every hotel in the group and states the exception in the same breath: tattoos are refused, except where a cover seal hides them completely, in which case the large bath may be used. The group does not say it supplies the seals, so bring your own. The same answer allows bathing garments made for surgical scars at every property in the group.
Show this at the front desk
・入れ墨(タトゥー)のある方のご入浴はお断りしております。 ただし、カバーシールを用いて入れ墨(タトゥー)が完全に覆えている場合に限り、大浴場をご利用いただけます。
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 locationTakamatsu STN
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.
A chain rule, and the most generous seal of any hotel chain
Route Inn sets this once for the whole group — Route Inn, Grand, Ark and Grand Vrio alike — and states it plainly: tattooed guests may not bathe unless the tattoo is completely covered with a cover seal. The whole picture on Route Inn, and every Route Inn listing on this site →
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 rule is the answer to 大浴場の利用について制限はありますか on the group questions page at route-inn.co.jp/faq/, which the Takamatsu Yashima property page links to as its own. The property’s bath page carries no separate rule.
Read on: route-inn.co.jp/faq/
Best for: A tattooed traveler with seals of their own who wants a late bath near Yashima after the last ropeway down
The bath here is not a hot spring and the hotel says so: it is an artificial radium mineral bath called Tabibito-no-yu, made with a quasi-drug preparation the operator names Radihope under approval number 47D-447. It runs from 5:00 in the morning to 2:00 the next morning, is split by sex, and the women’s side takes a keypad code. Guest-room televisions show how busy it is.
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