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Prefectures / Saitama

Mitsumine Shrine Kounkaku

三峯神社 興雲閣 · Chichibu Onsen area

Tattoos not allowed (overnight)

Can you bathe here with a tattoo?

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Staying overnight

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

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Listed here mainly to save you a wasted trip: this was once a well-known day-bathing stop on the Mitsumine Shrine pilgrimage, but day bathing has been suspended and many sites still show it. Staying is now the only way to use the bath, and the lodge does not take guests with tattoos. If you do stay, you wake up inside one of the Kanto region's most atmospheric mountain shrines, before the day-trippers arrive.

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

We have not confirmed the bath layout yet.

Practical details

Day visits
No — overnight guests only.
Day visit price
Not confirmed
Day-trip bathing has been suspended - the bath is for overnight guests only. Many travel and onsen sites still list a day-bathing price; it is out of date.
Staying overnight
Yes
from about ¥13,350 per person
Getting there
The shrine's own pilgrim lodge, inside the grounds of Mitsumine Shrine high on Mt Mitsumine in the far west of Chichibu. Seibu Kanko Bus runs a Mitsumine Shrine line up the mountain via Mitsumineguchi Station. Not accepted: stays from 25 December to 5 January every year; new bookings for July-September are limited while the air conditioning is repaired.
Official website
www.mitsuminejinja.or.jp/kounkaku

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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.

What we have not confirmed

We would rather show a gap than guess.