Tattoo friendly onsen at Lake Toya

Yutorelo Toyako

ゆとりろ洞爺湖

Allowed in the shared baths if the tattoo fits under two cover seals. Relo Hotels & Resorts, which operates this inn, sets the rule for its whole group and sells the seals at the front desk at 250 yen each, 10 by 15 cm. The rule covers the sauna and the open-air bath as well as the indoor tubs, and the group states that anyone who declines to use a seal may be refused. Two seals is 300 cm² of coverage, so this works for a forearm piece and not for a sleeve.

刺青 ・ タトゥーがある方につきましては、施設指定のカバーシール2 枚で覆うことができるサイズに限り、ご入浴・プール施設をご利用いただけます。

Best for: A forearm or shoulder piece that two 10 by 15 cm seals will cover, in a shared open-air bath

Buy the seals at the front desk, 250 yen each, and the inn does not stock a larger size. Two bath houses, Toshin-no-yu and Shimizu-no-yu, each with an open-air bath, open 6:00–9:00 and 15:00–24:00; a sauna was added in November 2023. No reservable private bath. Day-use bathing is 1,000 yen for adults and 500 yen for ages 3 to 12, towels included, at a flat rate on weekdays and weekends alike, and the inn warns it can suspend or move those hours without notice. The same operator publishes a separate page allowing a bath garment for surgical scars.

The Lake Suite Ko no Sumika

ザ・レイクスイート 湖の栖

Every one of the eighty rooms has an onsen tub on its own terrace facing the lake, which is the whole reason to book here and the reason a tattoo does not come into it. The house publishes no rule for its eighth-floor big bath, and this site will not read that silence as a yes. There is no day-use admission, so the room bath is the only bath a visitor needs to plan around.

Best for: A tub on your own terrace at the water’s edge, with no shared bath to negotiate

Four room types, 50 to 61 m², all lake view, all with a 温泉露天風呂 on the terrace; ground-floor rooms get a garden terrace instead of a raised one. The big bath and sauna run 15:00–25:00 and 5:00–11:00, and the ryokan states plainly that it runs no day-use bathing. Worth knowing before you plan on the big bath: Toya Sun Palace, the sister hotel under the same company next door, publishes a flat refusal for its own baths, and Ko no Sumika publishes nothing either way.

Lake Toya Tsuruga Resort Hikari no Uta

洞爺湖 鶴雅リゾート 洸の謌

The shared baths are closed to tattooed guests, and the hotel says so in its own FAQ without leaving an opening: no seal is offered, there is no reservable family bath, and the refusal is extended in the same breath to religious tattoos. What is open is eight room types with a private onsen open-air bath, out of twelve types and forty-eight rooms in the house. Book one of those and the refusal never touches you.

誠に申し訳ございませんが当館では入れ墨（刺青）タトゥ－のあるお客様のご入浴はお断りさせていただきます。宗教的理由の場合でもご遠慮ください。

Best for: A private onsen tub on the Sobetsu hillside, in a house that has written down exactly where the line is

Rooms with a private onsen open-air bath: three suite grades, two Japanese-Western rooms in the east and west wings, two designer twins, and a family room. The same FAQ answers 貸切風呂、家族風呂について教えてください with 貸切風呂はございません, so the in-room bath is the only private option. Shared baths run 13:00–1:00 and 5:00–9:30 and do not swap between men and women. Opened 2022 in Sobetsu, and the newest large hotel on this shore.

Toya Kanko Hotel

洞爺観光ホテル

Nothing about tattoos appears anywhere on this hotel’s site, including its FAQ, so the panorama bath and the cave bath are an unanswered question. The answer it does publish is two cypress-lined kashikiri rooms in the basement, each with an indoor tub and its own small open-air one, rented by the room for fifty minutes. A day visitor can book one without staying the night, which is rare in this town.

Best for: Renting a private cypress bath for fifty minutes without booking a room

The two kashikiri rooms are named Epere and Yuku, Ainu for bear cub and Ezo deer, and were converted from the old women’s bath, which is why they are oversized. Slots start on the hour for Epere and on the half hour for Yuku, from 13:00 to 24:30. Staying guests pay 4,000 yen for 50 minutes per room, day visitors 5,000 yen, and either price drops 1,000 yen before 16:00. Two taps in each washing area. Bring towels from your room; the baths do not stock them. Ordinary day-use bathing is 1,000 yen for adults, 13:00–21:00, or 700 yen for the 7:00–9:30 morning session in the panorama bath only, and the hotel halves the price if you show a receipt from any restaurant around the lake.

The Lake View TOYA Nonokaze Resort

ザ レイクビュー TOYA 乃の風リゾート

Nonokaze publishes no tattoo rule at all, in its FAQ or on its bath pages, so what happens in the shared baths is genuinely unknown and this site does not fill the gap in. Two things it does publish make the question avoidable: two private baths on the top floor of the Spa Resort wing, rented by the slot, and three room grades in the Club wing with a lake-facing onsen tub of their own.

Best for: A private tub on the top floor, booked by the fifty-minute slot, with Mount Yotei in the glass

Private baths: two rooms, 50 minutes for 4,400 yen including tax, 16:00–23:00 with last reception at 22:00 and each turn starting on the hour. Each comes with its own rest room with a sofa, a television and a powder corner, and the tub takes three adults. In-room onsen baths: the 112 m² Premium Spa Suite, which adds a self-loyly sauna, the 112 m² Executive Suite, and the 56 m² Executive Twin. The three shared baths are TENQOO on the roof, EZOFUJI, and a bathhouse-styled Showa-no-yu. This hotel was the Toya Park Hotel Tenshou before its rebuild, so searches for that name land here.