Iwayagawachi, in the trees above the onsen street Ryokan

Banshokaku Shikishima

萬象閣敷島

Does Banshokaku Shikishima allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A hillside inn where the room, not the bathhouse, is the bathing space: oak and hinoki tubs, stone walls, a bed set beside the tree the room is named for. The smallest type is reserved for guests in their twenties and thirties.

Every room here has an open-air or semi-open-air bath of its own, from the compact 50 square metre type up to the 80 square metre suite, so a stay does not require the shared bath at all. The inn publishes a long FAQ that covers cancellation, wheelchairs and pets, and says nothing about tattoos.

Where it is

Hakata to Ibusuki is about 3 h 25: the Kyushu Shinkansen to Kagoshima-Chuo, then the Ibusuki Makurazaki line down the coast, which the sightseeing train Ibusuki no Tamatebako also runs. Ureshino is about 1 h 20, a limited express to Takeo-Onsen and the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen one stop further. Kurokawa has no railway at all: the coach from Hakata takes about 2 h 40 by way of Hita and Tsuetate. The blue dashes are the way here from Hakata Bus Terminal: the Kyushu-go coach, which stops in the middle of the bath district rather than at the station two kilometers out, 2 h 12 in all; 2,200 yen against 4,870 by train, and eleven minutes slower; one run of the day stops at the expressway interchange instead, a 26-minute walk out. Banshokaku Shikishima · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

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 — bath structure, not a tattoo policy (the rooms page, where all five room types are named for their bath)

Read on: bansyoukaku-sikisima.co.jp/room/

Best for: A wide open-air bath room built for two adults, with children under school age not accepted

Five room types: suites over 70 square meters with a lavish semi-open-air bath, a 70 square metre premium with a wide open-air bath room, two deluxe grades over 60 square meters (one looking onto an oak), and a 50 square metre type sold only to guests in their twenties and thirties. Children from birth to pre-school age are not accepted, and some rooms are adults only. Shared shuttle wagon from Ureshino-Onsen STN by prior arrangement. The second parking lot is shared with the day-use private baths next door, which are a separate business.

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