Tattoo friendly onsen in Takayama

Ryokan Asunaro

旅館あすなろ

Asunaro's FAQ asks whether a guest with a tattoo can enter the large bath and answers that they can. It names no size limit and asks for no cover. The inn has only the shared indoor baths, with no private bath and no open-air bath.

体にタトゥー（刺青）がありますが、大浴場は入れますか？ ご利用いただけます。

Best for: a yes to tattoos in the shared bath, five minutes from Takayama Station

Indoor baths only, open 3 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.; the men's and women's sides do not swap. No private bath and no open-air bath. Most rooms have their own bath and toilet, and four have a shower booth instead. Breakfast only: the inn has stopped serving dinner. Guests under 12 are not accepted, and two room types are for ages 13 and up. The front door is locked at 11 p.m.

Oyado Koto no Yume

おやど 古都の夢

Koto no Yume answers the question in its own FAQ: because many of its guests come from abroad, guests with tattoos may use the baths. It asks for no cover seal. The baths are for staying guests only, so there is no day visit. Swimsuits and wrapped towels are not allowed in the water.

当館では海外からのお客様が多いので、入れ墨（刺青）・タトゥーのあるお客様もご入浴いただけます。

Best for: a tattoo-open hot spring bath two minutes from Takayama Station

The private bath Hoshi-no-yu on the 5th floor is not hot spring water: the inn says it is heated tap water. It costs ¥3,300 a turn for up to three adults and ¥4,400 for four, with turns on the hour from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., booked ahead or at the front desk, staying guests only. The room bathrooms are not hot spring water either, and no room has an open-air tub. The large baths open 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and do not swap sides. Curfew is 11 p.m.

Ryokan Tanabe

旅館田邊

Tanabe's FAQ says guests with tattoos may use the baths. It asks those with large tattoos to be considerate, for example by bathing at a quieter hour. There is no private bath; every room has its own bath, which is heated tap water.

ご利用いただけます。大きなサイズのタトゥーや刺青の場合にはご利用時間をずらすなど、ご配慮いただけますと幸いです。

Best for: a 1934 inn in the old town center whose FAQ welcomes tattooed bathers

Two bath halls, each with an indoor hot spring tub (one cypress, one rock) and an outdoor Shigaraki pottery pot bath. The inn states that the indoor tubs are natural hot spring and the pot baths are heated tap water. Room baths, the half-open-air cypress tubs of the Yubokuan ground floor included, are also heated tap water. Baths open 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (from 6:30 a.m. December to March); the sides do not currently swap. No private bath.

hotel around TAKAYAMA

ホテルアラウンド高山

The hotel's hot spring page says guests with fashion tattoos may bathe in the large baths, and that anyone who would rather cover up can get a cover seal at the front desk. The seal is offered, not required. There is also a private bath, ¥2,000 for 45 minutes, booked at the front desk on the day.

ファッションタトゥーがあるお客様でもご入浴いただけます。気になるお客様はカバーシールをフロントでお渡しします

Best for: a station hotel that lets fashion tattoos into the large bath and hands out cover seals on request

The hotel's wording covers fashion tattoos. Cover seals are handed out at the front desk to guests who want one. The private bath costs ¥2,000 for 45 minutes, with the last session starting at midnight and the first at 3 p.m.; it is booked at the front desk on the day of use and one person may take it alone. The large baths are for staying guests only. The spring water is trucked in from the source rather than piped.

Hilton Takayama Resort

ヒルトン高山リゾート

The hotel asks guests with tattoos to stay out of its shared baths as a rule, with two published exceptions: cover the tattoo with a cover seal, or book a private open-air bath. The seals are sold in the hotel's own gift shop. The hotel gives no size limit for the seal.

タトゥー（刺青）のあるお客様のご利用は原則としてご遠慮いただいております。ただし、貸切露天風呂、またはカバーシールでタトゥーを隠していただいた場合はご利用いただけます。※カバーシールはショップにてご購入いただけます。

Best for: an infinity bath facing the Northern Alps under a cover seal, with a private open-air bath as the other way in

Cover seals are sold at Gift Shop and T on the first floor of the Main Tower, open 8 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Private open-air baths are on the sixth floor of the Onsen Terrace: ¥4,400 for 45 minutes or ¥6,600 for 90 minutes, 1 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. with last entry at 10 p.m., one to four people, reservation required, bathing tax extra. The shared baths are open 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to midnight. Day visitors pay ¥1,500 per adult, rental towel included. The baths in the guest rooms are not hot spring water.

Tabino Hotel Hida Takayama

たびのホテル飛騨高山

The hotel's bath rules turn away guests with tattoos or body paint unless the tattoo can be covered with the hotel's own designated seal. The rules tell guests to ask the front desk about the seal. They give no size for it and no price.

入れ墨（タトゥー）やボディペイントを施された方 ① ただし、当ホテル指定のシールで覆うことができる場合を除きます。 ② シールにつきましては、フロントまでお問い合わせください。

Best for: a riverside open-air bath under the hotel's own cover seal, with a free shuttle from the station

The seal is the hotel's designated one; ask at the front desk at check-in. There is no private bath, and the guest rooms have unit baths. The shared bath, Matsunoki-no-yu, is on the first floor with an indoor bath and an open-air bath for each sex. The room television shows how crowded the bath is. Phones, cameras and other electronic devices are banned inside the bath area.

Takayama Green Hotel

高山グリーンホテル

Tattoos are refused in the large baths unless a cover seal hides them completely; with everything covered, you may bathe. The hotel asks guests to bring their own seals and names no size limit. It has no private or family bath, and the open-air tubs in its main-wing rooms are not spring water.

お体に入れ墨（刺青）やタトゥーのあるお客様は、大浴場のご利用をお断りさせていただきます。 ただし、カバーシール等で完全に隠せる場合はご入浴いただけます。 なおカバーシールはご自身でご用意ください。

Best for: covering a small tattoo and using a garden rock bath a short walk from the station, as a day visitor or a staying guest

Bring cover seals; the hotel does not hand them out. Day-use bathing costs ¥1,500 for adults, ¥750 for elementary school children and ¥300 for ages 3 to 5, face towel included, with a bath towel sold for ¥500. Day hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (last entry 1 p.m.) and 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. (last entry 9 p.m.). Midday visitors from Monday to Thursday use the basement bath Tenryo-no-yu Fuga; midday visitors from Friday to Sunday and all evening visitors use Honjin Daiyokuden. Five main-wing room types have an open-air tub, and the hotel says room baths are not hot spring water. Children in diapers may not bathe.

Takayama Ouan

飛騨花里の湯 高山桜庵

Refused in the shared baths: the hotel's FAQ says guests with a tattoo of any size, anywhere on the body, may not enter the large bath, and points them to the private baths instead. The three private baths on the 13th floor are free, need no booking and are filled with the hotel's spring water.

申し訳ございませんが、部位・大きさに関係なく、刺青／タトゥーがあるお客様は、 大浴場にはご入浴はいただけません。ご了承ください。 貸切風呂がございますので、そちらをご利用ください。

Best for: a free private soak on the top floor of a city hotel, with no booking, five minutes from the station

The three private baths are Shidare, a small tub for two, Shirayuki, a rock bath that holds a family of about four, and Azumanishiki, a cypress bath with wooden headrests for lying back. Check the sign at the door, and if it reads vacant, go in and lock up from inside. A turn is about 30 minutes, from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. and from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. None has a washing area, shampoo or soap, so wash in your room first; most rooms have a shower booth. The hotel takes no day visitors.

Wat Hotel & Spa Hida Takayama

ワットホテル＆スパ飛騨高山

Wat Hotel's lodging terms refuse guests with tattoos in the large bath. The way to bathe here is one of the four family baths on the roof: each is a private open-air hot spring tub, free, with no booking, used whenever it stands empty. The refusal is written in the rules for the large bath only, so ask the front desk if you want the family baths confirmed for you.

1.入れ墨又はタトゥーのある方のご利用をお断りさせていただきます。

Best for: four free private open-air baths on a hotel roof, no reservation

The four family baths are Kasa-no-yu, Yari-no-yu, Okuho-no-yu and Norikura-no-yu, named for peaks of the Northern Alps. They are free, open 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. to noon, and taken first come: walk in when one is empty. Each has an open-air hot spring tub and a shower; in winter the showers are shut off against freezing and the tubs are for soaking only. The spring water is trucked in from Hidamari-no-yu in the north of Takayama, circulated, chlorinated and heated in cold weather. No day visits.

Hida Hotel Plaza

ひだホテルプラザ

Refused in the shared baths: the hotel's FAQ turns away guests with tattoos from its large baths, and it has no family or private bath to book. The one way to bathe in its spring with a tattoo is to stay in the special Western room Yuzan Kosho, which has its own hot-spring bath. Ordinary rooms have a plain bathtub.

妊娠、体調不良や体質上の自覚症状、アルコール等を飲酒されたり、刺青等をされている方は、ご利用をお断りしております。

Best for: a room with its own spring-fed bath in a large hotel close to the station, for guests who accept that the shared baths are closed to them

Yuzan Kosho is a 50 square meter Western room for up to three guests, with its own bath of the hotel's Hiten-no-yu spring and a dinner prepared for three parties a day. The hotel says it built the room because guests kept asking whether room baths were hot spring water and whether there was a private bath. The FAQ says spring water is otherwise supplied only to the two large baths. No day-use bathing.

Machiyado Ichiryu

まち宿 壱龍

Machiyado Ichiryu has no shared bath at all, and it publishes no tattoo rule. Every bath in the house is taken alone: two private hot spring baths that are free whenever they stand empty, a third that is reserved for a fee, and a half-open-air tub in each of the 11 rooms.

Best for: an inn with no shared bath, where two private hot spring baths are free

The three private baths use Hida Takayama Onsen and open 3 p.m. to midnight and 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Iwafune and Araki are free and need no booking; a screen in the room shows whether they are empty. The premium bath Miyagawa costs ¥4,400 for 45 minutes from the top of each hour, booked ahead or at the front desk on the day. The half-open-air tubs in the rooms are not hot spring water; the inn says so on its hot spring page. Children of elementary school age and younger are not accepted. Parking is ¥1,500 a night.

Mercure Hida Takayama

メルキュール飛騨高山

Mercure Hida Takayama publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Its answer for a tattooed guest is one of three private open-air baths, rented for 45 minutes at a time. They cannot be reserved ahead; ask at the front desk at check-in.

Best for: a private open-air bath a short walk from Takayama Station, asked for at check-in

Three private open-air baths named Hinoki, Sugi and Matsu: ¥4,500 for 45 minutes, 3 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., with a drink included. They are not taken by advance reservation; guests ask at the front desk when they check in. The shared open-air bath and indoor bath are open 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to midnight. The guest rooms are standard hotel rooms without a hot spring tub listed.

Tokyu Stay Hida Takayama Musubi no Yu

東急ステイ飛騨高山 結の湯

Tokyu Stay Hida Takayama publishes no tattoo rule for its large baths. A tattooed guest can book one of the three private open-air baths on the top floor instead, each ¥2,750 for 45 minutes and fed by the same hot spring. They are booked at the front desk on the day of the stay, first come.

Best for: a private top-floor hot spring bath two minutes from the station

The private baths are Cha (tea), Sumi (ink) and Mori (forest), on the 9th floor, open 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. with the last booking at 10 p.m. They cannot be booked before the day of the stay and are not offered in the morning. The two large baths on the 2nd floor, one of cypress and one with a black gourd-shaped tub, swap between men and women. The 9th floor also has a cypress foot bath of spring water. No room has its own hot spring tub.

Ryokan Murayama

旅館むら山

Ryokan Murayama publishes no tattoo rule. It has two private hot spring baths, Take and Matsu, that guests use free of charge, so a tattooed guest can bathe in the spring without entering the shared men's or women's bath.

Best for: two free private hot spring baths at a small wooden inn by Hida no Sato

The private baths are named Take (bamboo) and Matsu (pine). The inn added the second so guests wait less for a turn. Both use the same spring as the main baths, Matsukura Yunoyama Onsen, a weakly alkaline simple spring of pH 8.2. The men's and women's baths were rebuilt in December 2018 with shower booths. A bathing tax of ¥150 a person is charged on top of the stay. The station shuttle runs on request by phone until 5:30 p.m.

Hidatei Hanaougi

飛騨亭 花扇

Hanaougi publishes no tattoo rule. It has one private open-air bath, booked at the front desk on the day for ¥3,300 per 50 minutes, and ten of its twelve room types come with their own open-air tub. The inn says the private bath and the room open-air tubs are filled from its own spring.

Best for: a room with its own open-air tub of slippery bicarbonate spring water, with dinner served in a private dining room

The private open-air bath is used from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., is booked on the day only at the front desk, and costs ¥3,300 for one party for 50 minutes. It has no washing area or shower. Room types with an open-air spring tub are Homei, Kinkoh, Hoju, Jimma, Shakkyo, Nishiki, Takumi, Hijiri, Hana and Hana Twin; Nagomi and Ichii have none. The room tubs are stone, ceramic or cypress depending on the room, and a particular tub cannot be requested. The indoor bath in every room is plain water, not spring water. No day-use bathing.

Hanaougi Bettei Iiyama

花扇別邸いいやま

Bettei Iiyama publishes no tattoo rule. Four of its six room types have their own open-air tub filled from the inn's spring, and there is one private open-air bath, reserved at the front desk on the day for ¥3,300 per 50 minutes. Either one lets a tattooed guest bathe in the spring apart from other guests.

Best for: adults who want a 15-room inn where the room has its own spring-fed tub on a terrace

Room types with an open-air tub: the rooms with an anteroom (four rooms, each laid out differently), the twin room with an open terrace, and two two-story maisonette types, one with futon and one with twin beds. The two-room superior type (four rooms) and the general rooms (two) have none. The open-air tubs have no washing area; each room also has an indoor bath with a shower. Since January 2023 the inn takes guests aged 13 and over only. It has no sauna and takes no day visitors.

Honjin Hiranoya Kachoan

本陣平野屋 花兆庵

Honjin Hiranoya Kachoan publishes no tattoo rule and has no private rental bath. A tattooed guest's own bath here is a room tub: the two garden rooms Kaze and Midori each have a half-open-air bath, and the suites and top-floor rooms have cypress or jet tubs. The inn calls only its shared baths hot spring, and it says the top-floor Hanayagi room's cypress tub is heated plain water.

Best for: a room with its own half-open-air cypress tub over a stone garden, one minute from Takayama Jinya

Rooms with their own bath: Kaze (room 360) and Midori (room 370), 12-mat Japanese rooms with a half-open-air bath usable 24 hours and a stone garden; guests are given one or the other. The top-floor Hanayagi room (90 square meters) has a family-size cypress tub that the inn says is heated water, not hot spring. Seven suites have a cypress tub, five have a jet bath and one has a tiled bathroom; the top-floor Nagomi room has an indoor cypress tub. The inn does not describe any room tub as hot spring water. The shared baths use Takayama Onsen water, a simple spring that the inn heats, filters and chlorinates without adding water.

Oyado Kokoro

おやど 心

Oyado Kokoro has no shared bath at all: its three baths are all private, free, and taken one party at a time, so tattoos never come up. Between 3 p.m. and midnight guests book a 45-minute turn on a board by the bath doors; after midnight the baths are open without booking. The inn publishes no tattoo rule.

Best for: a budget room-only stay where every bath is private and free

Three private baths, free, usable 24 hours; two have an open-air part. From 3 p.m. to midnight each party books up to 45 minutes on the board beside the bath entrance, in order of check-in; no booking is taken before arrival. After midnight the baths are free to use. On winter weekdays the inn may not run all three. Guests aged 11 and under are not accepted. The building has no elevator. Last check-in is 9 p.m.

Ryokufuen Kiyoharu

緑風苑きよはる

Ryokufuen Kiyoharu publishes no tattoo rule for its shared baths. Two rooms, Natsuki and Shiho, have a private open-air bath on their own deck plus a shower room, so guests in those rooms can bathe without using the shared baths. The inn has no reservable private bath, so the choice of room decides it.

Best for: a room for three with its own open-air tub and a station pickup

Only two rooms have their own bath: Natsuki, a Western room with two double beds and one single, and Shiho, a Japanese-Western room with one double and two singles on a raised tatami floor. Each has a private open-air tub, a separate shower room, a washstand and a toilet. The inn calls the room tubs private open-air baths without the words hot spring, so ask when you book if the water matters to you. The shared baths use Matsukura Yunoyama Onsen with no water added, heated and circulated, 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Day visitors are not taken.

Futarishizuka Hakuun

飛騨高山温泉 二人静 白雲

Hakuun publishes no tattoo rule. A tattooed guest can bathe alone in the detached open-air private bath, ¥1,000 per group for 40 minutes, or in the room's own tub. Neither is spring water, except in the one special room with a hot spring open-air bath.

Best for: a private open-air bath over the rooftops of Takayama, and a tub in your own room

The private open-air bath stands in a detached hut with its own rest area and is not hot spring water, by the inn's own statement. It costs ¥1,000 per group for 40 minutes in eight slots from 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. It is booked at the front desk after arrival and cannot be reserved ahead, so late arrivals may find it full. Room tubs are cypress or ceramic and are not hot spring water; the only exception is one 8-mat special room with a hot spring open-air bath, whose shower freezes and is shut off from mid-December to late March. In the shared halls the cypress tubs are hot spring and the barrel tubs are heated tap water.

Hoshokaku

飛騨高山温泉 宝生閣

Hoshokaku publishes no tattoo rule. Eleven rooms on the fifth floor have their own open-air tub, so a tattooed guest can bathe without using the shared baths. The inn says plainly that these room tubs are not hot spring water: its spring feeds only the stone open-air bath in the shared bath hall, and there is no private bath to reserve.

Best for: a private open-air tub with a view over the old town from the castle hill, for guests who do not mind that the water is not from the spring

The room tubs hold ordinary heated water, not spring water; the inn's FAQ and its bath page both say the spring is used only in the shared open-air stone bath. Seven Japanese rooms and four non-smoking Japanese-Western rooms have a tub, either a Shigaraki ceramic tub or a stone one, with a shower booth beside it. The top-floor bathing lounge Orihime is for women only and is shared, not private: free for guests in the open-air rooms, ¥1,500 for 90 minutes for other guests, booked on the day, from 5 p.m. to midnight, with no guests aged 12 or under. No day-use bathing.