Shin-Kabakawa Kanko Hotel
新樺川観光ホテル
Does Shin-Kabakawa Kanko Hotel allow tattoos? In a private bath
A Shionoe hotel that fills a tub in every one of its rooms from the same 1,250-year-old spring, washing area and all, and says plainly that none of them is open-air.
Every room in the house has a spring bath in it, which the hotel puts at the top of its own room page and repeats on its spring page. The Japanese rooms have a full bathroom with a washing area and a deep tub; the Western twins have a unit bath on the same water. The hotel is careful to say these are indoor tubs, not open-air ones. That structure answers the question without touching the rule for the shared bath, on which the hotel says nothing.
Show this at the front desk
全ての客室風呂も温泉が出ます 客室の温泉風呂で時間を気にせず、 プライベートな湯浴みをご堪能いただけます。 和室は、洗い場付きの広々とした温泉風呂付のバスルームを完備。
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
Takamatsu STN
Hotel location
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 shinkabakawa.com/rooms/ is headed 全室温泉付客室 and gives every room type a 温泉内湯付 bathroom, and the spring page repeats it. Forty-five pages of the site were read and none of them mentions tattoos.
Read on: shinkabakawa.com/rooms/
Best for: A tattooed traveler who wants a deep spring tub with a washing area inside the room, at ordinary onsen-hotel prices
The hotel adds the same caveat to every room type: 客室風呂は露天風呂ではございません, the room bath is not an open-air one. The spring is Shionoe water at pH 9.12, said to have been found by the monk Gyoki twelve and a half centuries ago. The shared bath, Ayame-no-yu, runs 11:00 to 23:00 and 6:00 to 9:00 and has an open-air section and a low-temperature steam sauna. Day-use bathing is 820 yen, with a discounted towel-included rate of 500 yen for entry before 20:00, rising to 600 yen from July 2026. There is a free rest room with massage chairs and a table-tennis room.
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