Hana no Yado Nishikien
花の宿 にしき園
Does Hana no Yado Nishikien allow tattoos? In a private bath
The inn is frank about where its water comes from: a pipeline from the town’s source well, reheated, with two baths you can lock the door on.
Nishikien publishes nothing about tattoos, and its two large baths, Kojo-no-yu for men and Yuzuki-no-yu for women, should be treated as closed. The two reservable open-air baths, Hana-no-yu and Kaze-no-yu, are the answer: 2,500 yen for 45 minutes if you are staying or eating there, 3,000 yen for two if you are not, cash only, booked ahead.
Where it is
Okayama STN
JR Sanyo line 52 min
Hiroshima STN
Hotel locationHayashino STN
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 to Okayama and JR’s Tsuyama and Kishin lines to Hayashino, which is the all-JR way in by way of Tsuyama. The Chizu Express between Kamigori and Sayo is a private railway and is not covered. 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 two reservable open-air baths, their prices and the booking rule are on the inn’s own onsen page; 25 pages of the site carry no tattoo statement.
Read on: nishikien.jp/spa/index.html
Best for: Two reservable open-air baths taking two to four people, cash at the desk.
Reservable baths take two to four people. Guests and diners pay 2,500 yen for 45 minutes; visitors pay 3,000 yen for two, plus 500 yen a head after that, and the inn takes cash only for bathing. Day bathing in the large baths runs 15:00 to 21:30 at 1,000 yen for adults, with no towel included. The inn is candid about its water: the source arrives by pipeline from the Sagi Onsenkan well at 40°C, is chlorinated and filtered, is reheated, and water is added to hold the level.
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