Ureshino Onsen, both banks of the Ureshino river Large riverside ryokan

Wataya Besso

和多屋別荘

Does Wataya Besso allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

A resort the size of a small district, with the Ureshino river running through the middle of it and its own carpenters on staff to rebuild the rooms, the furniture and the fittings. The separate Suimeiso wing was assembled from a relocated Nabeshima clan villa and gives every room a hinoki bath.

Nothing is published about tattoos, and the rented private bath that would have been the easy answer is closed for the time being, so the shared baths are an unknown. What is certain is the room stock: the Miyabikan and Kachoen wings have rooms with their own open-air bath, and in the Suimeiso wing every room has a hinoki tub on the spring. Book one of those and you never have to enter Mikageden.

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. Wataya Besso · 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 room pages for the main building and for Suimeiso, plus the hot spring page)

Read on: wataya.co.jp/suimeiso/room/

Best for: A room bath on 20,000 tsubo of riverside grounds with a bookshop, a roastery and a sauna in walking distance of your slippers

The kashikiri bath is suspended: the hot spring page says 当面のあいだ貸切風呂を休業させていただきます. Day-use bathing in the large bath Mikageden runs 14:00–21:00, last entry 20:00, at 1,300 yen for adults and 700 for elementary-school children, towels included; the Yudono Shinsho bath is for overnight guests only. The second and fourth Wednesdays the large bath opens at 17:30 after cleaning. Spring listed as 天然温泉、ナトリウム炭酸水素塩、塩化物泉（低張性弱アルカリ性高温泉）, source about 85°C. The tower block is a Kisho Kurokawa design.

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