Yumori Hotel Taikan
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Does Yumori Hotel Taikan allow tattoos? In a private bath
Yumori Hotel Taikan pours its own spring, with no water or heat added, into a 25-meter bath and into the open-air tubs of eleven rooms, and those room tubs are where its group sends tattooed guests.
Tattooed guests are refused in the hotel’s large bath and open-air baths. Its parent group, Itoen Hotels, tells them to use the bath in their room or a private bath instead. Taikan has no reservable private bath, so the way in is one of its eleven rooms with an open-air tub of the hotel’s own spring: nine in the Bettei Urara wing and two in the East wing.
The bath
Taikan runs on its own source, Taikan-no-yu, which flows at 700 liters a minute and goes into the tubs with no water added and no heating. It is a simple sulfur spring, alkaline at pH 9.0, with 76.8 mg of metasilicic acid, and the hotel calls it a beauty bath. The listed indications run from neuralgia and joint pain to diabetes and chronic skin complaints.
The shared baths are a large indoor bath about 25 meters long, which the hotel ranks among the biggest in northern Tohoku, a garden open-air bath called Yakushi-no-yu, an open-air bath with a view of Mount Iwate on clear days, and an open-air bath with a falling-water shower. They open from 3 p.m. to midnight and from 5 to 10 a.m.
The private answer is in the rooms. In the Bettei Urara wing the suite, the three deluxe rooms and the five standard rooms each have a source-flowing open-air bath, usable at any hour of the stay. The East wing has two more open-air bath rooms, one with a cypress tub and one with a ceramic tub. The hotel's photos show square tubs of pale stone set on timber decks, open to the trees.
The hotel
A large hotel of 107 rooms in several wings beside Lake Gosho, run by Itoen Hotels. Meals are buffets, and many room types add a premium lounge with free-flowing drinks. Bettei Urara is the top wing: nine rooms with their own open-air bath, meals in a private dining room called Urara Dining, and an 11 a.m. check-out. Other rooms range from Japanese rooms in the Shusui-kan and Suimei-kan wings to Western twins in the main building, where lake-view Japanese-Western rooms face Mount Iwate. Parking is free for about 100 cars; pets are not allowed.
Good to know
- Free shuttle from Morioka Station, booked by phone at least three days ahead, from stop 28 at the west exit.
- Eleven rooms with their own tub, filled from the hotel's own unheated source.
- No day bathing. The hotel stopped selling day visits in July 2025.
- Later check-out in Bettei Urara, at 11 a.m. instead of 10.
Getting there
From Morioka Station, take the route bus to the Morioka Tsunagi Onsen stop, about 32 minutes by the hotel's count, or a taxi, about 25 minutes. The hotel publishes no walking time from the stop. It also runs a free shuttle from stop 28 at the station's west exit; it runs only on days with bookings, so reserve it by phone at least three days before you arrive. From Tokyo the Tohoku Shinkansen to Morioka takes about 2 hours 10 minutes. By car, Morioka IC is about 15 minutes away.
Morioka STN · Iwate Kenkotsu bus to Morioka Tsunagi Onsen, or the hotel shuttle from the west exit
Not walkable.
Bus about 32 minutes; free hotel shuttle from stop 28 at the west exit, booked three days ahead.
Where it is
Tsunagi Onsen bus stop
- Tohoku Shinkansen 2 hr 13 min from Tokyo
- Iwate Kenkotsu bus 32 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR East Pass from ¥35,000 · 5 or 10 consecutive days Covers the Hayabusa from Tokyo to Morioka, seat fee included.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
Use the bath in your room, or reserve a private bath.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the hotel’s hot spring page and the Itoen Hotels group FAQ); the room tubs from the hotel’s rooms page
※刺青・タトゥーのある方の入浴をお断りいたします。 刺青・タトゥーなどを入れている方の、大浴場・露天風呂のご入浴は原則お断りしております。各部屋に備え付けのお風呂か、貸切風呂をご利用ください。
This is the rule for the shared baths. It doesn’t apply to the private baths.
Best for: a room with its own open-air tub of unheated source water, looking toward Lake Gosho
Rooms with an open-air spring tub: the Bettei Urara suite (1 room), Bettei Urara deluxe (3) and standard (5), and the East wing open-air bath rooms (2), one tub of cypress and one of ceramic. The hotel announced the end of day bathing in July 2025. Check-in 3 p.m., check-out 10 a.m., 11 a.m. in Bettei Urara.
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