Takayu Onsen, beside the Attaka-yu bathhouse Ryokan

Adachiya

安達屋

Does Adachiya allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A 400-year-old inn under Takayu’s Yakushi hall, rebuilt around a huge open-air bath the inn calls the largest free-flowing one in the prefecture, with dinner cooked over an irori hearth.

Adachiya has no tattoo rule on its site. What it has is three private baths: two open-air tubs in a wooden bath hut, Yakushi-no-yu, and a small indoor one, Himesayuri. Overnight guests book them at the front desk after arrival, and late at night they are simply locked from inside. Day visitors can book one too.

Show this at the front desk

貸切露天風呂がふたつ。極上のプライベート。

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

Where it is

Sendai is the door to all of these. Akiu is 43 minutes on one bus from the station, with no change. Nyuto is the Komachi, JR’s Shinkansen across to Akita, as far as Tazawako, then a bus of 47 minutes, about 2 h 20 in all. Naruko is twelve minutes on the Shinkansen to Furukawa and three quarters of an hour up the Rikuu East line. Zao is the Senzan line rapid over the mountains to Yamagata, then a bus of 37 minutes up to the ski village. Hanamaki is the Yamabiko to Kitakami, one stop on the local line and a bus, about 2 h 10. Higashiyama is the long one: the Shinkansen to Koriyama, the Ban-etsu West line over to Aizu-Wakamatsu and the loop bus, nearly four hours with the waits, and easier from Tokyo. Adachiya · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

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 (adachiya.jp/hotspring/yakushinoyu/ and /hotspring/fudonoyu_himenoyu/) — bath structure, not a tattoo policy

Read on: adachiya.jp/hotspring/yakushinoyu/index.html

Best for: Two private open-air tubs in a wooden hut under the village’s Yakushi hall

Yakushi-no-yu: for guests, reserved 07:00–22:00 at the front desk after arrival, then open to whoever locks it 22:00–24:00 and from dawn to 06:45; 50 minutes. Himesayuri indoor private bath: reserved 07:00–22:00, free 22:00–07:00. Day visitors: 1,500 yen admission plus 1,100 yen for a private bath, reception 10:30–13:00, closed Tuesdays, Fridays and inn holidays. The big open-air bath Taiki-no-yu, rebuilt with a west half opened 2025-07-10, is now split east and west and swapped between men and women. The top page says children of elementary age and under are not accepted for stays.

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