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
Tattoos are accepted in the main baths.
Source: official website · checked 2026-08-29
How it scores
Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.
The baths
Private (kashikiri) bath
Four private bath huts built in the shape of the Myoban yunohana thatched sheds, named after the local mountains (Yufu, Tsurumi, Takasaki, Ogiyama). Sulphur spring.
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.10:00-19:00 (reception until 18:00)
- Day visit price
- ¥2,000Price is per hut per hour (2,000 or 2,500 yen depending on the hut), not per person. No phone reservations - you put your name down in person and wait your turn, and they stop taking names once the slots fill. Weather can change the hours.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- In the Myoban district on the same site as the yunohana thatched sheds (a national important intangible folk cultural property). Buses 5, 41 (Beppu Station west exit, about 26 min, 360 yen) or 24 (east exit, about 30 min, 440 yen) to Myoban. Free parking.
- Official website
- yuno-hana.jp
Staying nearby
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Why Agoda for Japan: it lists a lot of ryokan and small inns that the Western booking sites never picked up, and it usually prices Japanese properties in yen, so you are not paying a conversion spread on top of the room rate. Worth comparing before you book — the difference on a ryokan is often larger than you would expect.
About the day-pass link: Asoview is the main place day-use onsen in Japan sell entry tickets and discount coupons in advance. It is a Japanese-only site, so use your browser’s translation — you show the ticket on your phone at the door.
More onsen in and around Beppu
Checked the same way: tattoo policy, private baths and day visits.