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Masano Hinokiyu Private Open-Air Bath

湯来温泉湯元貸切露天風呂 誠の桧湯 · Yuki Onsen

Policy not published (day visit)

Can you bathe here with a tattoo?

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Visiting for the day

They have not said

The tattoo policy is not stated publicly. A private (kashikiri) bath is available, which is often an option for tattooed guests.

How it scores

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View3
Water4
Comfort4
Setting4
Access3
×Somewhere to sit — Bathe and leave
×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

An open-air bath brought back to the Yuki Onsen hamlet after a 19-year gap, in a cypress tub cut from local timber, run by a local non-profit. You book the whole thing for an hour - 4,000 yen for up to six people - so it is a private bath in the fullest sense, with free-flowing source water and no shared bath to negotiate. There is nowhere to linger afterwards: you hand the key back at the hour and that is that.

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The baths

Private (kashikiri) bath

The whole facility is a single private open-air bath - there is no shared bath here at all. The tub is made of cypress felled in Yuki, and the spring runs through it undiluted and untreated. Because it is booked as a whole for 60 minutes, this is the most straightforward bath in Hiroshima for anyone who cannot use a communal bath, including travellers with tattoos, families with small children and mixed groups.

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.
Six 60-minute slots a day: 9:00, 10:30, 12:00, 13:30, 15:00 and 16:30. The 16:30 slot opens for booking one month ahead. Reservation required; online booking is card-only, and same-day booking is by phone only.
Day visit price
¥4,000
4,000 yen for the whole bath, not per person - up to six people can bathe together, so a couple pays 2,000 yen each and a group of six pays about 670 yen each. Bring your own towels (a commemorative face towel is 1,000 yen, bath towel rental 250 yen). Only the biodegradable soap provided may be used, to protect the river. Pay and collect the key at the Yuki Exchange and Experience Centre, one minute by car or three on foot from the bath.
Staying overnight
No
Getting there
In the Yuki Onsen hamlet in the mountains of Saeki Ward. From JR or Hiroden Itsukaichi Station south exit, take the bus bound for Yuki Onsen to the last stop, 'Yuki Lodge mae'. Reception is at the Yuki Exchange and Experience Centre next door to Yuki Lodge; the bath itself has parking for two cars. The operator's site has an English version.
Official website
yuki-yumoto.com

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Staying nearby

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What we have not confirmed

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