Hotel Urashima
ホテル浦島 · Nanki-Katsuura Onsen
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
The tattoo policy is not stated publicly. Please contact the facility.
Staying overnight
The tattoo policy is not stated publicly. Please contact the facility.
How it scores
Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.
The baths
Open-air bath
BOKIDO - the reason people come. A natural sea cave in the headland, roughly 25 m wide, 50 m deep and 15 m high, carved out of mudstone by the waves of the Kumano Sea, with the hot spring pooled inside it. You bathe under the cave roof looking out through the mouth of the cave at the open Pacific, close enough that spray blows in on rough days. The name means 'the cave that makes you forget to go home', given by the Kishu lord Tokugawa Yorinori. Men's and women's use alternates: 5:00-10:00 / 13:00-23:00.
Open-air bath
GENBUDO - a second natural cave bath, in the Nissho-kan wing, rougher and less finished than Bokido; the hotel calls it a cave bath where you experience nature as it is. 5:00-12:00 / 16:00-23:00.
Indoor bath
Taki-no-Yu, where the water runs down a natural rock face beside the tub, plus Hamayu-no-Yu and Iso-no-Yu.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.Reception 9:00-18:00, bathing until 19:00. Individual baths close for cleaning: Bokido 10:00-13:00, Hamayu/Taki-no-Yu 12:00-15:00, Genbudo 12:00-16:00, Iso-no-Yu 9:00-12:00.
- Day visit price
- ¥2,500Adult 2,500 yen, child (age 3 to elementary school) 1,250 yen, tax included. A towel and bath towel are included in the price.
- Staying overnight
- Yes
- Getting there
- The hotel stands on the Katsuura headland and is reached only by its own boat: walk about 6 minutes from JR Kii-Katsuura Station to the Kanko Sanbashi pier, then about 5 minutes on the Urashima-maru ferry. Day visitors may use the hotel's free car park.
- Official website
- urashimaresortsandspa.jp/wakayama-hotelurashima
Book it
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What we have not confirmed
We would rather show a gap than guess.
- The tattoo policy for day visits is not stated on the official website.
- The tattoo policy for overnight stays is not stated on the official website.
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