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
Men's and women's indoor baths in the 1938 wooden bathhouse. Men's side is a sodium-calcium-magnesium chloride/bicarbonate spring, women's side a sodium bicarbonate spring.
Indoor bath
Sand bath (suna-yu): you wear a yukata and an attendant buries you in onsen-heated sand. Separate 1,500 yen ticket.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.6:30-22:30 (sand bath 8:00-22:30, last entry 21:30)
- Day visit price
- ¥300300 yen is the ordinary bath (futsu-yoku). The famous sand bath (suna-yu) is a separate 1,500 yen and is open to ages 6 and over; only 8 people can be buried at a time, so waits are common. Closed the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- In central Beppu at 16-23 Motomachi, a short walk from JR Beppu Station through the Ekimae-dori / Takegawara arcade area. No parking of its own.
- Official website
- www.city.beppu.oita.jp/sisetu/shieionsen/detail4.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.