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
A family-bath-only facility with 10 private rooms and no shared bath at all. Tubs are variously stone, rock and hinoki cypress; there are open-air, semi-open-air and indoor rooms, with some detached cabin-style rooms lined up like bungalows and others in a terrace row. Two rooms are free-flowing from the source and the other eight are coin-operated, filling with fresh water for you. Chloride spring, surrounded by trees.
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.Weekdays 11:00-23:00, Sat/Sun/holidays 9:00-23:00 (reception until 22:00)
- Day visit price
- ¥1,800Priced per private room for 60 minutes, not per person: 1,800 yen for the smaller rooms (up to 4 people), 2,100 and 2,400 yen for others, and 2,800 yen for the two largest (up to 6 people). Extensions are sold in 30 minute units at half the room rate. No reservations - it is first come, first served, though you can ring 0977-22-4126 to ask whether anything is free. When the wait reaches an hour, reception closes at 21:00. Closed a few unfixed days a year. PayPay only for cashless; towel rental costs extra.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- At Takenouchi in the hills above central Beppu, about 5 minutes by car from the Beppu IC on the Oita Expressway. 20 parking spaces. A car is effectively required.
- Official website
- okatanoyu.com
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.