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
Open-air bath
The whole facility is a single open-air rock bath cut into the shoreline at the tip of Cape Yuzaki, with nothing between you and the Pacific: the town describes it as a bath where 'the sea and the spray press right up to you', and the tub and the ocean read almost as one surface. Waves break on the rocks a few metres away and sea spray reaches the bathers. Men's and women's baths are separated (the town's rule separates the sexes from roughly age 7). There is no roof, so the bath is fully exposed to weather. This is the last surviving tub of the ancient 'Yuzaki Nanayu' seven springs, recorded in the Nihon Shoki and the Man'yoshu.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.8:00-17:00 (Oct 1 - Mar 31) / 8:00-18:00 (Apr 1 - Jun 30 and Sep 1-30) / 7:00-19:00 (Jul 1 - Aug 31). Last entry 30 minutes before closing. Open daily, but closes without notice for maintenance and when the sea is rough.
- Day visit price
- ¥500A flat 500 yen for everyone aged 3 and over. Free for visitors holding a disability certificate, and for one carer accompanying them.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- About 20 minutes by Meiko bus from JR Shirahama Station to the Yuzaki stop, then a short walk to the cape; there is a car park beside the bath. Reachable without a car.
- Official website
- www.town.shirahama.wakayama.jp/soshiki/kanko/koen/shisetsu/pubric_spa/1450338115191.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 Shirahama
Checked the same way: tattoo policy, private baths and day visits.