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Kahadakyo Onsen Iitakano-yu

香肌峡温泉 いいたかの湯 · Kahadakyo Onsen

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 2026-09-12

How it scores

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

ViewWaterComfortSettingAccess

Verified by the editor

View4
Water2
Comfort4
Setting4
Access3
○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here
△Anything else nearby — Nearby, but off to one side

A roadside-station bathhouse deep in the Kahadakyo gorge, and unusually generous for the money: eleven kinds of bath including a firewood-heated tub and jar baths, with the Kushida river below the windows of both the indoor and open-air baths. The water is the weak point and the operator is honest about it - a 17.7C cold mineral spring, diluted, heated and filtered - so come for the setting and the variety rather than the water. Buses from Matsusaka stop at the door, which is rare this far up the valley. Tattoos are refused at the entrance.

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

Eleven kinds of bath in total across the two halls, including a steam bath, a firewood-heated bath, jar and cauldron baths, a herbal bath, lying-down baths, a sauna and a cold plunge. Men and women swap halls on odd and even days: Akayuwa-no-yu has the firewood bath, Tsubone-no-yu the lying-down baths.

Open to day visitors

Open-air bath

Open-air bath looking down on the Kushida river running through the Kahadakyo gorge.

Open to day visitors

Practical details

Day visits
Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.
Reception 10:00-20:00, closes 20:45. Closed Wednesdays (open if a public holiday, closing the next weekday instead) and 31 Dec - 1 Jan
Day visit price
¥870
870 yen for adults (rate revised April 2025), 630 yen for over-65s and holders of a Japanese disability certificate, 490 yen for children aged 4 to elementary school, free under 4. Ten-visit tickets 7,200 yen. Shampoo, conditioner, body soap, hairdryer and lockers are free; towels are sold at the desk.
Staying overnight
No
Getting there
Inside the Iitaka-eki roadside station on Route 166 in the Kahadakyo gorge, the only michi-no-eki in Mie with its own hot spring. Mie Kotsu buses from Matsusaka Station (JR and Kintetsu) signed for Michi-no-eki Iitaka-eki terminate at the door; by car it is about 40 minutes from Matsusaka IC. The site also has a restaurant, a soba-making room, a massage room and an exhibition hall, plus separately run cottages and an RV park.
Official website
www.iitakaeki.com/facilities/category/spa

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Staying nearby

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Where to stay in Kahadakyo OnsenBooking.com ↗Day-pass tickets and coupons for MieAsoview (Japanese-language site) ↗

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