Ichiboku Isso
山懐の宿 一木一草
The inn publishes no tattoo rule. Every one of its eight rooms has its own bath of source-fed spring water, and seven of them have an open-air tub as well, so a tattooed guest can bathe for the whole stay without entering the cave bath or the half open-air baths that other guests share.
Best for: a couple who wants a relocated Meiji-era suite with a cypress indoor bath and a boulder-rimmed open-air tub of its own
Souan, a relocated Meiji building, has a cypress indoor bath and an open-air bath that seats four or five; Momiji has a cypress tub and an open-air bath; Kame an indoor bath and a chiseled-stone open-air bath; Nousagi a carved single-stone indoor bath and no open-air tub; the four standard rooms Ryu, Tsuru, Hoo and Shishi a stone indoor bath and a small open-air bath each, in a row-house block. All of them run on the inn’s own alkaline simple sulfur source without recirculation. The shared side is a cave bath behind the main bath and men’s and women’s half open-air baths. The inn gives no bathing hours for the room tubs and sells no day use.