Tattoo friendly onsen in Toyama

Hotel Morinokaze Tateyama

ホテル森の風立山

The hotel refused tattooed guests outright until mid-2024. Since July 1, 2024 it has admitted them to its baths on a trial basis, provided every tattoo is hidden under cover seals or something similar. Anyone who will not keep to that rule is still turned away. The hotel names no seal size and does not say whether it sells seals.

弊社では、入れ墨・タトゥ－のある方のご入館・ご入浴を原則お断りとしますが、下記ルールを厳守していただける方は、 2024年7月1日より、テスト的にご入浴を受け入れることにいたしました。入れ墨・タトゥーが全て覆える様に、専用カバーシール等でデザインを隠していただければご入浴を受け入れます。但し、当ホテルのルールを守っていただけない方に関しては、今まで通りご入浴をお断りさせていただきます。

Best for: sealing up for a rock open-air bath that faces the Tateyama range, with the Alpine Route a short drive away

The hotel calls the arrangement a test, so it can change. A private bath for couples and families costs ¥2,200 an hour, 3 to 10 p.m. with the last booking at 9 p.m. The eleven Shikisai villas each have their own open-air tub, hinoki or ceramic, and the hotel says the villa tubs and the private bath use the same spring as the main baths. Day-use bathing is ¥900 for adults, 3 to 6 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 6 p.m. on weekends and holidays, last entry 5 p.m., towels not supplied.

Eihokaku

氷見温泉郷 魚巡りの宿 永芳閣

The inn refuses tattooed guests in its large baths as a rule, with one exception written on its hot spring page: a tattoo that disappears under a single 8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in) cover seal is fine. Guests bring their own seal; the inn does not supply them. Staying guests can also book one of two indoor family baths with a sea view for 40 minutes, which takes the question off the table.

タトゥーなどを入れたお客様の大浴場のご利用は、原則お断りしています。ただし、8cm×10cmのカバーシール１枚で見えないようカバーしていただいた場合は、この限りではありません。シールはお客様ご自身で持参願います。

Best for: a small tattoo under one seal, or a 40-minute family bath with the Sea of Japan in the window

Two private family baths, Uminari-no-yu with a jacuzzi tub and Gaun-no-yu with a relaxation tub, both indoor with a sea view: 40 minutes, ¥2,200 including tax, staying guests only, 2 to 11 p.m. and 5 to 9 a.m., booked by phone only from 11 a.m. on the day of the stay, first come first served, no food or drink inside. The inn says the water in the large baths and the family baths is topped up, heated and recirculated, with chlorine and ultrasonic disinfection. The special rooms of the Tenyu annex have a family-size bathroom that the inn says is not hot spring water.

Onyado Nono Toyama

天然温泉 剱の湯 御宿 野乃富山

The hotel turns tattooed guests away from its shared bath, Tsurugi-no-yu, as a rule. Its FAQ adds that some hotels in the group hand out cover seals, two at most, and that a tattoo small enough to hide under one may bathe, but it hedges on whether this hotel has them. The sure answer here is a room with its own hinoki tub of the hotel’s spring: four of the five room types have one, and nobody else uses it.

当ホテルでは刺青･タトゥー等をされている方の入浴はお断りしております。但し施設によっては、隠し用シール（8 cm × 10 cm (3.1 × 3.9 in)）をご用意しております。

Best for: a city stop with a hinoki tub of dark brown spring water inside your own room, two tram stops from the station

Moderate double (16.1 m²), Hollywood twin (20 m²), deluxe twin and superior triple (31.2 m²) rooms each have a hinoki tub fed with the hotel’s natural hot spring; the standard twin has a shower booth only. The hotel calls it the only in-room spring hinoki bath in the Dormy Inn group. The FAQ lists seals in three sizes, up to 11.8 cm × 17.2 cm (4.6 × 6.8 in), and says supply is limited. Day-use bathing in the shared bath runs 6 to 9 a.m. (¥900) and 3 to 9 p.m. (¥1,200), last entry an hour before closing.

Kintaro Onsen

金太郎温泉

The inn answers the tattoo question in its own FAQ: the large baths are closed to tattooed guests, and it points them instead to the private baths in its Karuna no Yakata day-use building, which run on the same source at 100 percent. Those are booked by phone for 60, 90 or 120 minutes on top of admission, and staying guests pay no admission.

大変申し訳ございませんが、大浴場のご入浴はお断りさせていただいております。該当のお客様には、源泉100％かけ流しを楽しめる貸切風呂がお勧めでございます。

Best for: a sulfur and salt spring at full strength in a private room, with the Tateyama range on the skyline and a free shuttle from the Shinkansen

Private baths at Karuna no Yakata: ¥1,800 for 60 minutes, ¥2,100 for 90, ¥2,400 for 120, on top of day admission (¥1,300 all day, ¥1,100 for 3 hours; free for staying guests), booked ahead by phone to the Karuna front desk, reservations 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., bathing until 10 p.m. The FAQ counts three private bath rooms and the Karuna page four. The rooms with open-air tubs in the Mine-no-kai annex are filled with heated tap water, not the spring, as the FAQ says in so many words. The guest-only Hekiga mural bath is a shared bath and falls under the refusal.

Tsurugi Koizuki

つるぎ恋月

The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its hot spring page, rooms page or FAQ, so the shared bath is not promised to anyone with ink. What it does publish is the structure: twelve rooms with their own open-air tub of the Etchu Tsurugi spring, which the inn says is hot spring water run through a recirculating system, and a private indoor bath of the same spring that any guest can book for 50 minutes. Either keeps you out of the shared hall altogether.

Best for: a room with a ceramic open-air tub of brown spring water and Mount Tsurugi in front of it, 25 minutes from Toyama by local train

Twelve open-air-tub rooms: six Japanese, two Japanese-Western and four Western, which the inn calls the most in the prefecture. The rooms page says the room open-air tubs are hot spring water, recirculated out of regard for the environment. Private bath on the first floor, natural hot spring, ¥3,850 for 50 minutes, 3 to 10 p.m. and 6 to 9 a.m., booked ahead or at the front desk on the day. Day-use bathing in the shared bath 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., last entry 5 p.m., ¥700, bath towel rental ¥550, face towel ¥220; a ¥150 bathing tax is added for overnight guests.

Amaharashi Onsen Isohanabi

雨晴温泉 磯はなび

The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its hot spring page, rooms page, FAQ or front page, so nothing is promised for the shared Yuraku bath. The listing rests on its two private baths, Ichi-no-yu in stone and Ni-no-yu in hinoki, which take the Amaharashi spring and are booked by the hour. Bath-only day visits are refused, so the private baths are for staying guests and lunch-plan visitors.

Best for: an hour in a hinoki or stone private bath of the Amaharashi spring, on the coast where the Tateyama range rises across the bay

Two private baths, each 60 minutes for ¥2,750 including tax, six slots a day from the middle of the afternoon to 11:30 p.m., booked ahead or on the day if a slot is free; both use circulating filtration and can be entered in a wheelchair. Every room bath is a unit bath or shower booth, and the rooms page says they are not hot spring water. The FAQ refuses bath-only day visits with an apology and no exceptions.

River Retreat Garaku

リバーリトリート雅樂倶

The hotel’s house rules, revised August 2026, bar tattooed guests from the large baths and the like, which covers the shared indoor and open-air baths, the guests-only Spring Day Spa and the reservable open-air bath inside it. The way in is one of the four annex premier suites with a hot spring tub of their own: rooms 111, 113 and 114 with a hinoki tub and room 112 with a black granite one, each filled with Kasuga Onsen.

刺青、タトゥーを施された方の大浴場等のご利用はお断りいたします。

Best for: a 115 to 150 m² suite over the Jinzu gorge with a hinoki or black granite spring tub, art on the walls and a free shuttle from Toyama Station

Annex premier suites with a spring tub: 111 Renka and 113 Genraku (about 150 m² plus terrace, up to seven, hinoki tub), 112 Hibika and 114 Fusa (about 115 m² plus terrace, up to four; 112 in black granite, 114 in hinoki). Each suite’s page says the tub is piped with Kasuga Onsen. The reservable open-air bath is the Spring Day Spa’s own, guests only, 60 minutes for ¥2,000 at 3, 5 or 9 p.m.; as part of the spa it falls under the refusal. The spring is heated, diluted and recirculated.

Asahiya

天然温泉 浜辺の宿 あさひや

The inn publishes no tattoo rule, and it does not need one: there is no shared bath. Its three bath rooms, Kikyo-no-yu in hinoki, Nadeshiko-no-yu in stone and the step-free Katakago-no-yu, have all been used as private baths since April 2022, free to guests from 3 p.m. to 9 a.m. with no time slots. You check which one is empty on your phone, go in and lock the door. The detached villa Tsuki has a hot spring open-air tub of its own as well.

Best for: an inn where every bath is yours alone, untimed and free, a short walk from a Himi line station on the beach

Three private baths of 100 percent natural sodium chloride spring, each with four washing stations: Kikyo-no-yu (hinoki), Nadeshiko-no-yu (stone) and Katakago-no-yu, built step-free for wheelchairs and older guests. Open 3 p.m. to 9 a.m., through the night, with no booking and no time limit; a QR code in the room shows which baths are free, and the inn asks guests to lock the inside bolt. The detached villa Tsuki, two rooms with a loft for two to six, has an open-air hot spring tub. A ¥150 bathing tax is charged per adult.

Umiakari

氷見温泉郷 くつろぎの宿 うみあかり

The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its hot spring page, rooms page or policy page, so the two shared view baths and the rock bath in the annex promise nothing to a tattooed guest. The listing rests on the Mori-no-to wing, two rooms opened in 2023 that each have a semi-open-air bath of their own. The inn describes those tubs as semi-open-air baths and does not call them hot spring baths, so treat the water as the inn’s own bath water rather than the spring.

Best for: a sea-side room with a square bath of your own at the Himi inn with two wells and a dawn bath over Toyama Bay

Mori-no-to rooms 551 (a lamp-lit special Japanese-Western room) and 552 (a special Japanese-Western room), sea side, opened February 1, 2023, two to four guests each, each with a differently styled semi-open-air bath. The inn says the room tubs are semi-open-air baths and gives no word on whether they hold spring water; it does say the main view baths are 100 percent natural hot spring. No reservable private bath. The annex rock bath takes day visitors, ¥660 for adults, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sanrakuen

庄川温泉郷 鳥越の宿 三楽園

The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its hot spring page, rooms page or FAQ, so nothing is promised for the two shared springs. It has no reservable private bath. The listing is for its two modern rooms with a semi-open-air bath, and the inn says plainly that those room baths are not hot spring water: they are ordinary heated water in a tub over two meters long with the Shogawa river in the window.

Best for: a river-view room with a long tub of plain hot water at an inn that runs two different springs for everyone else

Two Japanese-modern rooms with a semi-open-air bath; the rooms page says outright that the room bath is not hot spring water. The tub is over two meters long and the window frames the Shogawa and the Tonami Arashiyama hills. No private bath. The two springs in the shared baths, a bicarbonate spring and a carbonated iron spring, both run straight from the source.

Yuya FUROBAKKA

湯屋 FUROBAKKA

The operator answers the tattoo question in its own FAQ, bath by bath. The family baths are fully private, so a tattooed guest may use them. The rental saunas share their cold plunge and cooling space, so tattoos are turned away there, and the large bath Kurobeya refuses them too, including faint tattoos, tattoos under seals and visits after dark. The operator says it is reviewing the rule for diversity reasons but that for now the shared areas stay closed. The water throughout is Kurobe groundwater, not a hot spring.

◇ 家族⾵呂 → 完全プライベート空間ですのでご利⽤いただけます。◇ 貸切サウナ → ⽔⾵呂・外気浴スペースは共⽤ですのでご遠慮いただいております。◇ ⼤浴場 → ご遠慮いただいております。※視認しづらいタトゥーやタトゥーシール等も同様です。※暗い時間帯のご利⽤も同様です。タイバーシティの観点よりご利⽤可否につきまして検討中ではございますが、現時点ではご遠慮いただいております。

Best for: two hours in a walled yard of your own with a round tub, a wood-stove sauna if you pay for it, and a plain yes from the operator

Ten family bath units, four of them with a sauna, in two sizes: with no sauna ¥2,500 to ¥3,500 a unit depending on size and day, with a sauna ¥8,000 to ¥11,000, members a little less; a session is 120 minutes since January 2024. Sauna units include the large bath; no-sauna units add it for ¥500 a person. Book on the operator’s Coubic page by the day before, or by phone on the day if a unit is free and staff have time to prepare it; no same-day cancellation. The operator never calls its water hot spring: every tub runs on Kurobe groundwater pumped at 560 liters a minute and 13°C year round, heated for the baths and left cold for the plunges. Admission to the large bath alone is ¥900 on weekdays, ¥1,000 on weekends and ¥1,200 in peak season; children ¥350.

Ikuji Onsen Tanakaya

生地温泉 たなかや

The inn publishes no tattoo rule on its bath page, FAQ, terms or front page, so nothing is promised for the two shared garden baths, and there is no reservable private bath. The listing rests on the Kikuhoan annex, whose rooms have an indoor stone tub fed with the same water as the shared baths. That water is the inn’s point of pride, a cold mineral spring heated for bathing, and the inn says itself that it does not count as a hot spring under the current law.

Best for: a stone tub of the inn’s salty cold spring, heated, inside a detached room that looks over a pond garden

The Kikuhoan annex rooms, 10 to 12 mats for two to five guests, each have an indoor stone bath fed with the inn’s spring, which the rooms page calls a place to take it slow. The main-building rooms have no bathroom. The bath page says the water does not meet the Hot Spring Law’s definition of an onsen, so the inn cannot claim legal benefits for it; the prefecture classes it as mineral-bearing spring water, colorless, salty and odorless, 13.1°C when surveyed in 2004, and it is heated for the tubs. The FAQ says the inn has no private bath. Day-use bathing 1 to 8 p.m., last entry 7 p.m., ¥800.