Kamokimi-no-yu

天然温泉かもきみの湯

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 2026-09-05

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Water3

Comfort4

Setting3

Access3

○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here

×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

A large municipal bath complex rather than a hot-spring village: a 28.4C spring drilled 1,605 m down and reheated, with a restaurant, a free rest room, massage rooms, karaoke and meeting rooms, open until 23:00. It is the easiest place in this list to reach by train and bus, and the only one open late - but tattoos are refused, stickers included, and the wording appears to cover the private baths too.

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

Indoor bath

Two bath houses, Tsuru-no-yu and Kame-no-yu, swapped between men and women daily. Between them they have a reclining bath, a bubble bath, a seated bath, a carbonated bath, a rock bath, a cypress open-air bath and saunas.

Open to day visitors

Open-air bath

Open-air baths on both sides, one in cypress and one rock-built.

Open to day visitors

Private (kashikiri) bath

Two private baths bookable in 90-minute slots for 2,500 yen plus admission - one with a tent sauna and a television, one with a far-infrared sauna. Book by phone or at reception. Note that the house tattoo rule is written as a ban on bathing rather than on using the shared baths, so it appears to cover these too.

Open to day visitors

A private bath means nobody else is in the water with you — often the practical answer if the shared baths are closed to tattooed guests.

Practical details

Day visits: Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.
10:00-23:00, last admission 22:00. Open all year.
Day visit price: ¥700
Adults (junior high school and above) 700 yen on weekdays and 800 yen at weekends and on public holidays; children aged 3 and over 350 yen; under 3 free. Re-entry on the same day is allowed Monday to Friday except public holidays. The two private baths are 2,500 yen for a 90-minute slot on top of the admission fee.
Staying overnight: No
Getting there: On the skirts of Mount Kongo and Mount Katsuragi in Gose, southwest of Nara city. Local buses run from Kintetsu Gose Station to the Kamokimi-no-yu stop. 220 free parking spaces.
Official website: kamokiminoyu.net/facility

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Staying nearby

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