Ureshino Onsen, Shimojuku, a short walk from Taishoya Small hotel

Kotan Ureshino

枯淡嬉野

Does Kotan Ureshino allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Eighteen rooms opened under the Goten Resort name, built around silence and a pair of iki stoves, with the guest sauna repeated in miniature inside the best rooms. Nobody under middle-school age stays here.

No tattoo rule is published. Most of the eighteen rooms answer the question anyway: they come with a stone garden semi-open-air bath on the spring, and four of those also have a private sauna. Two Retreat Twin rooms have only a hot spring shower and no tub, so check the room type. There is a rentable private bath as well.

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. Kotan Ureshino · 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, which marks each type 温泉付き, and the onsen and sauna page)

Read on: goten-resort.jp/kotan-ureshino/rooms/

Best for: A room with both a hot spring bath and a sauna in it, at a house that takes no children

Eighteen rooms, all non-smoking, guests must be of middle-school age or older. The top rooms, Imperial Sauna Terrace Suite Aoi and Executive Sauna Suite Akatsuki, have both bath and sauna and access to a premium lounge. Shared baths are open 15:00–24:00 and 06:00–10:30, with a self-loyly sauna at 80°C, a cold bath and an outdoor cooling space, swapped between men and women morning and evening. The hotel describes the water as a sodium bicarbonate spring. Transfers from Ureshino-Onsen STN are available.

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