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
Guests with tattoos are refused entry to the facility, so private baths are not an option either.
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
Several different open-air tubs using Shirahama hot-spring water.
Indoor bath
A large indoor bath and a sauna. A separate paid ganbanyoku (heated stone-bed) complex includes a room lined with rock salt.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.9:00-23:00 (last entry 22:30). Stone-sauna (ganbanyoku) 9:00-22:30, last entry 22:00. Irregular closing days announced on the website.
- Day visit price
- ¥980Adult (junior-high age and over) 980 yen, child (3 years to elementary school) 500 yen, both tax included. The ganbanyoku stone-sauna rooms cost 1,000 yen on top. No towels are provided in the changing room; towels are sold on site.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- Beside the Toretore Ichiba seafood market on the edge of Shirahama, roughly 10 minutes by car or bus from JR Shirahama Station. Free parking.
- Official website
- toretore.com/yu
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.