Yamanaka Onsen, Korogimachi, at the foot of Korogi Bridge Ryokan

Miyakowasure no Yado Korogiro

みやこわすれの宿 こおろぎ楼

Does Miyakowasure no Yado Korogiro allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Korogiro has six rooms and no shared bath: each room has its own tub on the spring, and the largest is a rock bath four meters long looking down on Korogi Bridge.

Korogiro has no shared bath at all. The inn’s own facilities page says the baths are in the rooms, and every one of its six rooms has a hot spring tub of its own, so the tattoo question never comes up. No tattoo policy is published, and none is needed.

Where it is

Kanazawa STN Kaga-Onsen STN change to Hokutetsu Kaga bus · 32 min Hokuriku Shinkansen 18 min Komatsu Airport Hotel location
Yamanaka Onsen STN
Kanazawa is the door. Yamashiro, Yamanaka and Katayamazu are eighteen minutes on the Shinkansen to Kaga-Onsen and then a local bus of ten to thirty minutes. Awara is the next Shinkansen stop, 26 minutes, and eight minutes on the Keifuku bus. Awazu is the IR Ishikawa Railway, the old JR line, 38 minutes, and a short bus. Komatsu Airport, with flights from Tokyo Haneda, is closer to these towns than Kanazawa is.. Miyakowasure no Yado Korogiro · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Hokuriku Area Pass Four days on the Hokuriku Shinkansen between Tsuruga and Kurobe-Unazukionsen, non-reserved, for 7,000 yen. It covers the ride from Kanazawa to Kaga-Onsen; the Hokutetsu Kaga bus from the station is paid separately. Worth it if Awara, Unazuki or a second Kaga town is on the same trip. Sold on Klook.

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 rather than a tattoo policy (the 館内案内 page: お風呂は各お部屋にございます; the rooms page lists a tub in each room)

Read on: korogiro.com/kannai

Best for: Staying somewhere with no communal bath to worry about, beside Korogi Bridge

Six rooms, all with their own bath on the town’s mixed spring: Momiji and Ayatori (100 m², semi-open-air tub 150 × 150 cm), Tsubaki (a 270 × 400 cm rock open-air bath), the detached Toki and Yui (open-air bath and deck), and Kajika (lacquered open-air bath, source water flowing through). Meals are served in the room. The rooftop terrace and lounge are for guests of junior high age and older. The inn says it is over a hundred years old.

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