Across the river from Sunayu, on the Toyosaka bank Ryokan with three reservable baths and a reservable sauna ★★★★☆

Hakkei

八景

Does Hakkei allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The large bath here looks straight across the Asahi at Sunayu, and three more baths in the building can be locked from the inside.

Hakkei says nothing about tattoos anywhere on its site, so read no permission into its two large baths. It does rent three separate baths by the clock, and one of them, the barrier-free Egao-no-yu, is free. Book one at check-in and the shared-bath question never comes up.

Where it is

Hiroshima is the door for Miyajima, 27 minutes on the Sanyo line and a ten-minute ferry, and for the Yamaguchi towns, down the Shinkansen to Shin-Yamaguchi or Asa. Yubara and Yunogo are in the hills north of Okayama, which is 35 minutes from Hiroshima on the Shinkansen.. Hakkei · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Okayama-Hiroshima-Yamaguchi Area Pass Five days for 17,000 yen: reserved Sanyo Shinkansen seats between Okayama and Hakata, JR West local lines and the Marine Liner to Takamatsu. It covers the Shinkansen from Hiroshima to Okayama. The express bus from Okayama to Yubara is not a JR service and is paid separately. 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, not a tattoo policy. The reservable baths, their hours and their prices are on the inn’s own bath page; 45 pages of the site carry no tattoo statement.

Read on: hakkei-yubara.jp/spa/

Best for: Three different reservable baths under one roof, including a free barrier-free one with a bathing lift.

Kashikiri Spa Sora-no-yu, rebuilt after 25 years, 5,500 yen for 45 minutes, 16:00 to 24:00 and 7:00 to 10:00. Nagomi-no-yu, a stone-lined indoor reservable bath, 2,200 yen for 45 minutes, 16:00 to 24:00. Egao-no-yu, a barrier-free reservable bath on the third floor with a powered bathing lift, a wheelchair-accessible bathroom and its own toilet, free. There is also a reservable sauna, Kaze-no-yu. The inn says it may refuse use on the day to anyone who has been drinking. The large bath, Kawa-no-yu, faces Sunayu across the water and swaps between men and women morning and evening.

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Others in the same group

More places in the Yubara Onsen with private bath only

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