Tamatsukuri, the riverside block at the lower end of the street Ryokan with a reservable family bath and one room with its own open-air bath ★★★★☆

Tamatsukuri Grand Hotel Choseikaku

玉造グランドホテル 長生閣

Does Tamatsukuri Grand Hotel Choseikaku allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The tubs here are laid with polished agate, the stone Tamatsukuri has cut since the Kofun period, and the hotel keeps one agate open-air bath for the single top-floor room rather than for the crowd.

The shared baths are closed to tattoos, and Choseikaku says so in both languages without hedging. What it offers instead is stated in the same answer: the reservable family bath, 45 minutes at a time for houseguests only, or the top-floor room Izumo, whose agate-lined open-air bath is used by the people staying in it and nobody else.

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Can guests with tattoos use the public baths? No. We kindly ask guests with tattoos to refrain from using our public baths. Please use the private bath (reservation required) or your room’s bath.

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

Where it is

Matsue STN JR San’in line 8 min Yonago STN Hotel location
Tamatsukuri-Onsen STN
Matsue is the door, 2 h 35 from Okayama on the Yakumo limited express. Tamatsukuri is one stop west. Kaike is a bus from Yonago and Misasa a bus from Kurayoshi, both east along the San’in line, and Yunotsu is two hours west by way of Izumoshi.. Tamatsukuri Grand Hotel Choseikaku · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Sanyo-San’in Area Pass Seven days on JR West trains across both coasts for 23,000 yen, with reserved seats on the Sanyo Shinkansen between Shin-Osaka and Hakata and on the Yakumo limited express from Okayama to Matsue. It covers the San’in line from Matsue to Tamatsukuri-Onsen; the short bus or taxi from the station is paid separately. 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 (the hotel’s English FAQ), with the private-bath structure confirmed on its own 温泉 page

Read on: choseikaku.co.jp/en/

Best for: Booking the top-floor Izumo room and skipping the shared baths entirely

The family bath is 1,650 yen for one 45-minute session, by reservation, houseguests only, usable 16:00 to 23:00. The room Izumo is the top-floor suite, renovated March 2023, and its open-air tub is lined with agate; only its occupants may use it. The house spring is blended from the hotel’s own sources, which the operator notes makes its water a simple spring rather than Tamatsukuri’s usual sulfate-chloride classification.

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