Nakagawa Seiryu

源泉野天風呂那珂川清滝

Tattoos not allowed (day visit)

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

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 2026-08-30

How it scores

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

Verified by the editor

Water3

Comfort4

Setting4

Access3

○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here

×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

The biggest open-air bath complex within reach of Fukuoka city: a dozen outdoor tubs spread through the woods at the foot of the Sefuri mountains, including one hollowed from a single tree and one facing a rock waterfall, plus a stone sauna, an eating hall and a rest room you can lose an afternoon in. A free shuttle runs from Nishitetsu Ohashi. Two things to know: the water is a simple, weakly radioactive cold spring that has to be heated, so it is pleasant rather than distinctive; and tattoos are refused throughout, family baths included.

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

The open-air section is the point of the place: a large rock bath with a bubble tub, a bath hollowed from a single tree trunk, a waterfall-view bath with a reclining tub, a cypress bath (women) and a binchotan-charcoal bath surrounded by bamboo (men), pottery tubs on both sides and steam baths with an outdoor cooling area.

Open to day visitors

Indoor bath

Indoor bathrooms alongside the open-air ones.

Open to day visitors

Private (kashikiri) bath

Four private family baths - charcoal, cypress, lava stone and a bath built from boulders dug up when the place was constructed. 50 minutes, minimum two people, maximum five. Bookable online or by phone from the 20th of the previous month; weekend slots close the day before. NOTE: the facility's tattoo rule applies here too, so these are not a way around it.

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.
10:00-22:00 (last entry 21:00); 10:00-23:00 from July 18 to August 31. Closed Thursdays.
Day visit price: ¥1,400
1,400 yen on weekdays, 1,600 yen at weekends and on holidays, 1,900 yen in high season, plus a 70 yen bathing tax from age 12. Children 3 to 12 are 600 yen. Members pay 1,100-1,500 yen (500 yen to join). A private family bath is 3,500 yen per room for 50 minutes on weekdays and does not require the entry fee on top; the stone sauna is 1,000 yen extra and cannot be booked on its own.
Staying overnight: No
Getting there: In the hills of Nakagawa City at the foot of the Sefuri range, south of Fukuoka. A free shuttle bus runs from Nishitetsu Ohashi Station; otherwise it is 15 minutes by car from JR Hakata-Minami Station or 25 minutes from Ohashi. Large luggage is not allowed on the shuttle.
Official website: www.nakagawaseiryu.jp

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