Shimono, south end of the onsen district Ryokan

Chashin no Yado Warakuen

茶心の宿和楽園

Does Chashin no Yado Warakuen allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The bath people photograph here is filled from a giant stone teapot: Ureshino tea steeped into the hot spring every morning until the water runs brown. The inn claims the idea as a world first and builds the rest of the stay around tea too.

The inn says nothing about tattoos on any of its pages, including the FAQ. Its private options are unusually plentiful, though: seven Sazantei rooms each with a private open-air bath, five Suigetsu rooms with an open-air bath reserved for Suigetsu guests, two of the five Tsuki suites with an Arita-ware teacup bath, and two rentable open-air baths called Tsuyukusa and Nadeshiko.

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. Chashin no Yado Warakuen · 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 and the hot springs page, which name the kashikiri baths and the room baths)

Read on: warakuen.co.jp/hot_springs/

Best for: Bathing in green tea, then retreating to a room bath that runs straight off the source

Forty-seven rooms in five types. The inn tempers the main baths with added water, but says the Sazantei room baths, the Suigetsu rooms and their bath, and the kashikiri bath Nagomi-no-yu all run straight from the source. Day-use bathing 11:30–15:00, last reception 14:00, at 1,400 yen for adults and 700 for elementary-school children, with the large bath closed Tuesdays for cleaning and the day after any closure. Spring listed as ナトリウム炭酸水素塩塩化物泉. Michelin Guide Fukuoka, Saga and Nagasaki 2019 gave it three pavilions.

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