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
Indoor bath
One of the four baths said to have been opened by the monk Ippen. Chloride spring, very high in metasilicic acid; the tub and floor are lined with bluish Towada stone. A bamboo cooling rig ('yumetake') drops the temperature without diluting the water. Bath, wash area and drains were renewed in 2015.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.6:30-21:00 (last entry 20:30; the door is locked at 21:00)
- Day visit price
- ¥100This is a co-operative bath owned by local residents, so there is no ticket window. Outside visitors must each use one coin locker in the changing room and the 100 yen locker charge IS the bathing fee. Wear the locker key on your wrist in the bath. The offering box at the entrance is a donation, not the entry fee.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- In the Kannawa steam-vent district at 1 Kannawa Furomoto, on foot from the Kannawa bus terminal. No parking of its own - use the nearby municipal car park.
- Official website
- www.owl.ne.jp/shibunoyu/index.html
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.