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
Yes — tattoos are fine here
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.
Open to day visitors
Indoor bath
Sand bath (suna-yu): you wear a yukata and an attendant buries you in onsen-heated sand. Separate 1,500 yen ticket.
Open to day visitors
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