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 2026-08-28
How it scores
Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.
The baths
Open-air bath
Six open-air baths, including the 'Taiko no Iwaburo' rock bath fed with undiluted kinsen, a gourd-shaped ginsen bath, a Goemon cauldron bath, a herbal bath and a foot bath.
Open to day visitors
Indoor bath
Indoor bathing hall with a blended kinsen/ginsen bath, a radium-enriched ginsen bath, a lava sauna and a cold ginsen plunge.
Open to day visitors
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.10:00-22:00 (last entry 21:00); irregular closing days
- Day visit price
- ¥2,750Weekday full-time adult rate 2,750 yen; weekends, holidays and 28-31 Dec 2,970 yen; New Year, Golden Week and Obon 3,300 yen. A night-time plan from 19:30 is 1,980 yen on weekdays / 2,090 yen on weekends. A 75 yen bathing tax is added on top for most guests. Loungewear and towels are included in the admission fee. Rock-sauna huts ('Taiko no Musera' / 'Hyotan Musera') cost extra.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- A large day-use bathing complex on the hillside above Arima Onsen, walkable from Arima Onsen Station on the Kobe Electric Railway. Free parking for the first 4 hours, extended by 1 hour for every 2,000 yen spent inside.
- Official website
- www.taikounoyu.com