Can you visit Hyakkannon Onsen for the day with a tattoo?

No. Guests with tattoos are turned away.

Prefectures / Saitama

Hyakkannon Onsen

百観音温泉

Tattoos not allowed (day visit)

Can you bathe here with a tattoo?

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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 2026-09-11

How it scores

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

Not yet rated: View, Comfort.

Verified by the editor

View—

Water4.5

Comfort—

Setting2

Access5

—Somewhere to sit — not checked

×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

The reason onsen fans take the train out of Tokyo into flat suburban Saitama. The source gushes out at 57 degrees and 490 litres a minute: an iodine-bearing, strongly salty sodium chloride spring (hypertonic, pH 7.5), and the tubs are filled straight from it without recirculation. Expect a heavy, salty soak that some find too strong. The setting is a residential suburb with nothing else to do nearby, but it is 3 minutes from the station.

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

Open-air bath, a second 'fine-weather' open-air bath and a lie-down bath.

Open to day visitors

Indoor bath

Indoor bath, carbonated bath and sauna.

Open to day visitors

Private (kashikiri) bath

Five private bath rooms, 5,400 yen per room for 3 hours (minimum 2 people on weekdays, 3 at weekends). The tattoo ban covers the whole facility, so they are not an option for tattooed guests.

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.
8:00-23:00 on weekdays, 7:00-23:00 at weekends and on public holidays. Closed on the third Tuesday of each month (the following day if that is a public holiday).
Day visit price: ¥850
Adults 850 yen on weekdays and 900 yen at weekends and on public holidays; children aged 3-12 400 yen. Private baths are 5,400 yen per room for 3 hours, for at least 2 people (aged 6 and over) on weekdays and at least 3 at weekends.
Staying overnight: No
Getting there: About 3 minutes on foot from Higashi-Washinomiya Station on the JR Utsunomiya Line (about 50 minutes from Ueno). No car needed.
Official website: 100kannon.com

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Staying nearby

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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.