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Higaeri Onsen Ocean

日帰り温泉 オーシャン · Kaike 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 2026-09-15

How it scores

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View3.5
Water4.5
Comfort3.5
Setting3
Access3
○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here
×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

A Bali-themed day spa on the edge of Kaike: a big boulder-and-garden open-air bath downstairs, a horizon-facing sea bath upstairs, two saunas, private spa rooms and a sea-view restaurant, with towels and loungewear included. The water is Kaike's strong salt spring, free-flowing, and it keeps you warm for a long time. It sits in a residential district rather than the inn town. Tattoos and stickers are refused outright.

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

Open-air bath

Billed as one of the largest open-air baths in the Chugoku region: a ground-floor rock bath among boulders and garden with a lie-down bath, and a second-floor 'sea bath' looking out to the horizon. The two floors are men's and women's baths that swap regularly. Free-flowing Kaike Onsen water (sodium-calcium chloride, 74.3C, 10.62 g/kg).

Open to day visitors

Indoor bath

Indoor lukewarm and hot baths, an electric bath, a high-temperature far-infrared sauna, a low-temperature mist sauna and two cold plunge pools of different depths.

Open to day visitors

Private (kashikiri) bath

Paid 'private spa' rooms (Western-style and Japanese-style) with free-flowing spring water, booked at the front desk or by phone. The base price covers two people; each extra adult is 830 yen and each extra child 300 yen. Loungewear is not included. Tattoos are not allowed here either.

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.
10:00-24:00, no regular closing day (two maintenance closures a year)
Day visit price
¥1,580
1,580 yen for adults (junior-high age and over); members 1,150 yen; children aged 4 to primary-school age 750 yen; groups of 10 or more 1,400 yen each. Face towel, bath towel and loungewear are included. Free entry on your birthday with ID. Guests of the adjoining Business Hotel Ocean bathe free (up to twice). No re-entry once you leave.
Staying overnight
No
Getting there
From JR Yonago Station take a Hinomaru bus on the Kaike line bound for Shinkai (about 25 minutes), get off at Sogo Ryoiku Center and walk 3 minutes. About 15 minutes by taxi from Yonago Station, 25 minutes from Yonago Airport.
Official website
www.ocean-g.com

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Staying nearby

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

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