Yamashiro, on the hill on the southwest side of town Large ryokan

Yunokuni Tensyo

ゆのくに天祥

Does Yunokuni Tensyo allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

One of Yamashiro’s biggest inns, with three large bath halls and a long list of rooms that have an open-air bath drawn from the hotel’s own spring, renovated in stages from 2012 to 2025.

The large baths are closed to tattooed guests: under each of the three bath halls the hotel prints that tattooed and drunk guests are firmly refused. The rule sits in each large bath’s notes, and the hotel sells rooms with an open-air bath on its own source, which is the way to bathe here.

Show this at the front desk

刺青・タトゥーのある方、泥酔者の方のご入浴は固くお断りします。

The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.

Where it is

Kanazawa STN Kaga-Onsen STN change to Hokutetsu Kaga bus · 12 min Hokuriku Shinkansen 18 min Komatsu Airport Hotel location
Yamashiro 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.. Yunokuni Tensyo · 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 (the notice under each large bath on the 温泉 page; room baths from the 客室 pages)

Read on: yunokunitensyo.jp/spa/

Best for: A suite with its own open-air bath on the hotel’s private source

The refusal appears under each of the three large baths (Kutani, Takimi and Yugen), not as a hotel-wide rule; it does not mention room baths. Room baths: the Tensho wing’s open-air suites (six renewed in August 2025), the Hakuun main wing’s open-air rooms (seven renewed in February 2023) and view rooms in the Hakuun new wing. The hotel calls the water its own source (自家源泉).

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