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
Guests with tattoos are refused entry to the facility, so private baths are not an option either.
Source: official website · checked 2026-08-29
How it scores
Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.
The baths
Indoor bath
Two bathing halls, 'Ten-no-yu' (heaven) and 'Chi-no-yu' (earth), named after the old Chinese cosmology of a round heaven over a square earth; men and women swap between them weekly, so the bath you get depends on the week you visit. Rinse-in shampoo and body soap are provided in the bathrooms, and there are free hairdryers in the changing room. Mixed bathing is not allowed for children 120cm tall or aged 7 and over.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.10:00-23:00 (last reception 22:30)
- Day visit price
- ¥600High school age and above 600 yen, elementary and junior high school children 360 yen, children aged 3 and over 240 yen. Closed on the 3rd Tuesday of each month (the following day when that is a public holiday).
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- In the centre of the Awara Onsen resort in Awara City, northern Fukui; the address is 4-305 Onsen, Awara. The nearest station is Awara-Yunomachi on the Echizen Railway, a short walk away, and Awara-Onsen Station on the JR Hokuriku line is a few minutes by bus or taxi. This is the public bathhouse of a resort that is otherwise almost entirely ryokan.
- Official website
- awara-saintpia.jp
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.
Why Agoda for Japan: it lists a lot of ryokan and small inns that the Western booking sites never picked up, and it usually prices Japanese properties in yen, so you are not paying a conversion spread on top of the room rate. Worth comparing before you book — the difference on a ryokan is often larger than you would expect.
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.
More onsen in and around Awara
Checked the same way: tattoo policy, private baths and day visits.