Yunotsu, at the upper end of the preserved street beside Motoyu Ryokan with a free reservable family bath and two old-house lets ★★★☆☆

Kiunso

寛ぎの宿 輝雲荘

Does Kiunso allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

Kiunso put in the only open-air bath on the Yunotsu street in 2003, and it hands its family bath to guests for nothing, first come, key at the desk.

Kiunso publishes no tattoo rule, so its two shared baths stay unanswered. The family bath, Nagomi-no-yu, is free to guests and used by one party at a time, which makes it the practical answer here. It cannot be reserved in advance: the key sits at the front desk until 23:00 and the inn suggests phoning down to check whether it is free. Day visitors who are not staying can rent that same bath, and only that bath.

Where it is

Matsue STN Izumoshi STN change to JR San’in line · 78 min JR Yakumo limited express 28 min Yonago STN Hotel location
Yunotsu STN
Matsue is the door, 2 h 35 from Okayama on the Yakumo limited express. Tamatsukuri is one stop west. Kaike is a bus from Yonago and Misasa a bus from Kurayoshi, both east along the San’in line, and Yunotsu is two hours west by way of Izumoshi.. Kiunso · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

JR Sanyo-San’in Area Pass Seven days on JR West trains across both coasts for 23,000 yen, with reserved seats on the Sanyo Shinkansen between Shin-Osaka and Hakata and on the Yakumo limited express from Okayama to Matsue. Yunotsu is a JR station on the San’in line west of Izumoshi, so the whole ride from Matsue is on the pass. 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 inn’s FAQ on the reservable bath and its day-use page)

Read on: kiunsoh.com/faq

Best for: A traveler who wants a private tub at no extra charge in a town with almost no private bathing

Read the water carefully here. The inn writes that Yunotsu’s supply is not plentiful, that only the indoor part of the large bath is natural spring water on free flow, and that the open-air bath and the family bath are ceramic-mineral water on a recirculating system. So the private tub is warm water, not the spring, and the inn says so itself. Day-use of the family bath costs ¥500 for an adult, ¥300 for a primary schooler, ¥200 below that and nothing under three. Kiunso also lets two old houses on the street, Seisenkan and Hosen Nagaya, whose guests walk to the main building to bathe.

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