Yubel Hotel Matsumasa
湯田温泉 ユウベルホテル松政
Does Yubel Hotel Matsumasa allow tattoos? Yes, covered
The poet Taneda Santoka drank and bathed on this street, and the inn that carries his bath is the only one here that tells a tattooed guest exactly how to get in.
Matsumasa is the one operator in Yuda that writes down a way in. Tattooed guests are refused the large bath, and then the same sentence says that covering the tattoo with a tattoo cover seal makes it fine. You bring the seals yourself; the hotel does not supply them. If you have none, the hotel names the alternative itself and points you at the two reservable baths, Ichi-no-yu and Ni-no-yu.
Show this at the front desk
タトゥー（入れ墨）のある方のご入浴はお断りしております。ただし、タトゥーカバーシールで隠していただいた場合は、ご利用いただけます。ご利用の際は、各自ご持参の上ご利用ください。タトゥーカバーシールをお持ちでない方は、貸切風呂のご利用をおすすめしています。
The operator’s own wording, to show at the desk if you need to.
Where it is
Hiroshima STN
Sanyo Shinkansen 31 min
Okayama STN
Hotel locationYuda-Onsen STN
JR Hiroshima-Yamaguchi Area Pass Five days for 15,000 yen on JR West trains between Mihara and Hakata, reserved Sanyo Shinkansen seats included. It covers the Shinkansen from Hiroshima to Shin-Yamaguchi and the Yamaguchi line on to Yuda-Onsen. Sold on Klook.
What happens when you arrive
Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, to the size on this page. How the seals work, and where to buy them →
How we know
Confirmed from official site: the same wording appears twice, on the hotel’s own bath page and again in its FAQ, so it is the settled house rule rather than a stray line.
Read on: matsumasa.jp/spa/
Best for: A large free-flowing bath you can enter with a cover seal, and two reservable baths if you have none.
Bring your own cover seals; the hotel says so twice and does not sell them. Reservable baths are for overnight guests only: Ichi-no-yu for two to three people at 2,200 yen and Ni-no-yu for four to six at 2,750 yen, 45 minutes, in four fixed slots at 16:00, 17:30, 19:00 and 20:30. The large bath, Sennin-yu, runs 6:00 to 9:30 and 15:00 to 25:00 and is a free-flowing open-air bath associated with the haiku poet Taneda Santoka. Day bathing is closed to the public except for holders of a day-bathing ticket sold once a year, which is valid 14:00 to 20:00.
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