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 2026-09-14
How it scores
Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.
The baths
Indoor bath
Two bath halls that swap between men and women daily: Shugen-no-yu (natural-stone design, dry sauna and cold plunge) and Momozute-no-yu (a broad main bath with a picture-window view, also with a dry sauna). There is also an assisted-bathing room (500 yen) for elderly or disabled visitors who cannot bathe alone, and for LGBTQ visitors, to bathe with family; it is not a general private bath and is not recorded as one here.
Open-air bath
The open-air bath of Momozute-no-yu looks across the forest to Mt. Nunobiki and the Suzuka range beyond. Men get it on even-numbered dates, women on odd-numbered dates.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.Baths 10:00-22:00 (last entry 21:20). Closed over New Year, plus occasional maintenance days announced on the website
- Day visit price
- ¥800800 yen for adults (15 and over, excluding junior-high students), 400 yen for ages 3 to junior high. Bath plus bedrock sauna 1,500 yen. Bath plus the swimsuit hot-spring pool (open 20 June to 27 September in 2026) 1,200/600 yen. Face towel sold at 300 yen, bath towel rented at 200 yen. Run by the Konan city tourism association.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- On Mt. Iwane (known locally as Junibo) inside the Junibo forest park in Konan. The facility runs a free, unreserved six-seat shuttle from JR Kosei Station on the Kusatsu Line three times a day (10:45, 12:40 and 14:55 from the station) on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, weekends and holidays; no service on Tuesdays or Thursdays. Otherwise a 10-minute taxi, or 10 minutes by car from Ritto-Konan IC. Winter tyres or chains needed on the mountain road in winter.
- Official website
- www.12-yurara.jp
Staying nearby
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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
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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.
