Fukutokuya Ryokan
福徳屋旅館
Does Fukutokuya Ryokan allow tattoos? In a private bath
Fukutokuya has no big bath at all: it has seven private ones, from cypress tubs beside a garden to a top-floor open-air bath over the sea, and it sets no hours, so guests bathe through the night.
Fukutokuya publishes no tattoo rule. It has no large shared bath to be turned away from: the inn bathes its guests in seven private baths, including a top-floor open-air view bath, and lets them in at any hour of the night.
The bath
The inn's spring comes out of the ground at 105°C, and the page calls it a chloride-bearing salt spring. It runs through every tub without recirculation. The inn lists nerve complaints, women's ailments, rheumatism, stomach trouble, respiratory illness and recovery after surgery as what the water is used for.
There is no large communal bath. Instead Fukutokuya has seven private baths and bathes everyone that way. Two are semi-open-air cypress tubs, Kappa-no-yu and Tanuki-no-yu, each with a small garden of rocks and greenery behind a low fence and room for about four people. Four are indoor stone baths kept under low light, which the inn describes as a quiet, grown-up space. The seventh is the top-floor view bath, open to the air and facing the sea, where the inn tells you to watch the sunset. Every one is free for staying guests. The inn sets no bathing hours: the page says guests may bathe at any time during their stay, all night if they like, apart from short cleaning periods. The page does not say whether a bath is claimed with a key or a sign, and it publishes no day-use price.
The hotel
Fukutokuya has 18 rooms for up to 90 guests in three kinds: ordinary tatami rooms with a toilet and washbasin, tatami rooms with their own semi-open-air source-fed bath, and twin bedrooms renovated in 2024. Every window faces the sea. Dinner is seafood from the coast; the inn also takes pets in some rooms. The front desk is staffed 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., check-in is from 3 p.m. and check-out by 10 a.m.
Good to know
- No bathing hours: the inn says guests may bathe all night, with brief cleaning breaks.
- Seven baths for 18 rooms, so waiting is rare.
- The top-floor bath is the sunset one; the cypress tubs are the garden ones.
- Obama Bus Terminal is a five-minute walk, by the inn's count.
Getting there
From Isahaya Station take the bus toward Unzen, Obama and Kuchinotsu, about one hour, and get off at Obama Bus Terminal; the inn is a five-minute walk. From Hakata, the inn describes the JR limited express Kamome to Isahaya and the same bus. From Nagasaki Station a bus runs to Obama Bus Terminal in about 1 hour 20 minutes.
Isahaya STN · JR Nagasaki Main Line and Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen (Kamome), then the Shimatetsu bus
Not walkable.
Bus about one hour to Obama Bus Terminal, then a five-minute walk.
Where it is
Obama bus stop
- JR limited express 57 min
- Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen 20 min
- Shimatetsu bus 58 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- JR Kyushu Rail Pass from ¥12,000 · 3, 5 or 7 consecutive days Worth it if you’re coming from Hakata by train.
- Kyushu SunQ Pass Worth it if you’d rather ride buses. It covers the Shimatetsu buses from Isahaya and the direct bus from Nagasaki Station to Unzen, and highway buses across the island.
- 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.
How we know
Bath layout confirmed, tattoo policy not published Checked on the official site (the hot spring page describes seven private baths with no time limit for staying guests)
Best for: night owls who want a private spring bath at 3 a.m. with nobody else in the building awake
Seven private baths, all source-fed: two semi-open-air cypress baths with a garden, Kappa-no-yu and Tanuki-no-yu, four indoor stone baths under low light, and a top-floor open-air view bath facing the sea. The inn sets no bathing hours; guests may bathe all night, with short cleaning breaks. The page does not say how a bath is claimed (key or sign) and publishes no day-use price. Some rooms have their own semi-open-air source-fed bath.
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