Shinobu Onsen, below Takayu across a suspension bridge, Sakuramoto Three-room ryokan

Shinobu Onsen Seishu

信夫温泉青州

Does Shinobu Onsen Seishu allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A single inn reached over a suspension bridge, with three rooms on about two hectares of forest and herbal medicine baths and meals overseen by a practitioner of Chinese medicine.

Seishu publishes no tattoo rule and has no shared bath to worry about. Each of its three rooms has its own open-air bath, prepared with herbs chosen for the guest, and its two spring-fed open-air baths are both used as private baths.

Show this at the front desk

※「川側露天風呂清韻(せいいん)の湯」「山側露天風呂静観(せいかん)の湯」は、貸切風呂となります。

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. Shinobu Onsen Seishu · 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 (hotel-seishu.com/onsen/ and the top page: 当館全室は客室露天風呂を完備) — bath structure, not a tattoo policy

Read on: hotel-seishu.com/onsen/

Best for: A splurge at a three-room hideaway where every bath is yours alone

Three rooms, all upstairs with no elevator, each with an open-air bath of its own. Private baths Seikan-no-yu (mountain side, with an indoor carbonated bath) and Seiin-no-yu (river side). Closed Wednesdays and Thursdays except in busy seasons. All-inclusive; free shuttle by reservation. The whole inn can be taken for 1 to 11 guests. This is Shinobu Onsen, a separate spring the Takayu association lists with its members.

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