OnsenQuest

Prefectures / Shiga

Anegawa Onsen

あねがわ温泉

Tattoos not allowed (day visit)

Can you bathe here with a tattoo?

This is the question we built the site around, so we answer it per situation.

Visiting for the day

No — tattooed guests are turned away

Guests with tattoos are refused entry to the facility, so private baths are not an option either.

Source: official website · checked 2026-09-14

How it scores

Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.

ViewWaterComfortSettingAccess

Not yet rated: View.

Verified by the editor

View—
Water3
Comfort3
Setting3
Access1
○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here
×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

A health-spa style bathhouse run by a local towel-rental company, with a sodium bicarbonate spring, carbonated baths and a ceramic-slab sauna, plus free TV lounges and a dining room. It is adults-and-older-children only - no preschoolers - and effectively car-only, with a taxi from Nagahama the one alternative. Tattoos, paint and stickers are all refused.

Every onsen on this site is scored against the same written rubric, and every score has been reviewed by the editor. The ones marked Visited were also bathed in personally.

The baths

Open-air bath

Open-air area with a natural hot spring bath (about 41C), a carbonated bath (about 38C) and 'Sosei-no-yu', a mineral-stone bath.

Open to day visitors

Indoor bath

Indoor long bath of natural hot spring (about 42.5C), carbonated bath and a jacuzzi, plus a ceramic-slab sauna (extra charge).

Open to day visitors

Practical details

Day visits
Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.
Baths 11:00-21:30 (last entry 21:00). Closed 31 December to 2 January
Day visit price
¥1,075
1,075 yen for adults, 545 yen for elementary-school children; members 980/500 yen (joining fee 300 yen). Ceramic-slab sauna plus bath and loungewear 2,850 yen. Loungewear-and-towel set 525 yen, towel set 345 yen. Children under elementary-school age are not admitted, and the facility currently also declines wheelchair users and anyone who cannot walk or bathe unaided.
Staying overnight
No
Getting there
In farmland at Yashima-cho, south of central Nagahama. The facility lists no bus: about 20 minutes (roughly 3,500 yen) by taxi from JR Nagahama Station, or 15 minutes by car from Nagahama IC.
Official website
www.mau.co.jp/onsen

Visit the official website ↗

Staying nearby

The links below are affiliate links — we may earn a commission if you book through them, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what we list or how we score it.

Where to stay in ShigaBooking.com ↗Day-pass tickets and coupons for ShigaAsoview (Japanese-language site) ↗

About the day-pass link: Asoview is the main place day-use onsen in Japan sell entry tickets and discount coupons in advance. It is a Japanese-only site, so use your browser’s translation — you show the ticket on your phone at the door.

Getting in from the airport

The links below are affiliate links — we may earn a commission if you book through them, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what we list or how we score it.

Fixed-price airport transfer to ShigaAirport Taxi (English) ↗

Why not the train: the last leg to an onsen is usually a local bus with nowhere to put a suitcase. A fixed-price car is booked in English and quoted before you travel, tolls and fuel included.