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Chorakuen

湯之助の宿 長楽園 · Tamatsukuri Onsen

Policy not published (overnight)

Can you bathe here with a tattoo?

This is the question we built the site around, so we answer it per situation.

Staying overnight

They have not said

The tattoo policy is not stated publicly. A private or in-room bath is available, which is often an option for tattooed guests.

How it scores

Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.

ViewWaterComfortSettingAccess

Verified by the editor

View3
Water4
Comfort4
Setting3
Access4
△Somewhere to sit — A small rest area
○Anything else nearby — In the middle of things

Tamatsukuri's landmark ryokan, open since 1868, built around a garden bath so large it reads as a pond - and it is free-flowing from its own source, which is also what feeds the group's day-use hotel. Bathing wear in the changing room makes the mixed bath approachable, and there are separated baths, a bookable private bath and two rooms with their own open-air bath. The one thing to know before planning around it: there is no day-use at all, so it has to be a night's stay. It sits on the inn street, so the riverside walk and shops are outside the door.

Every onsen on this site is scored against the same written rubric, and every score has been reviewed by the editor. The ones marked Visited were also bathed in personally.

The baths

Open-air bath

Ryugu-no-yu, a mixed-sex open-air bath of about 120 tsubo (roughly 400 sq m) in the ryokan's garden, said to be the largest in Japan, free-flowing from the source. Bathing wear is laid out in the changing room - paper trunks for men, a wrap cloth for women - so mixed bathing does not mean bathing uncovered. Open 5:30-9:30 and 15:00-23:30. There is a women-only indoor bath for anyone who would rather not.

Overnight guests only

Indoor bath

Keisen and Kasen, indoor and open-air baths swapped between the sexes, open 5:30-9:30 and 15:00-24:00.

Overnight guests only

Private (kashikiri) bath

Seisen, a private bath booked by overnight guests in 45-minute slots starting hourly from 16:00 to 21:00, with 15 minutes of cleaning between them.

Overnight guests only

In-room bath

Two special rooms have their own open-air hot-spring bath; three detached special rooms are among the 58 rooms.

Overnight guests only

A private bath means nobody else is in the water with you — often the practical answer if the shared baths are closed to tattooed guests.

Practical details

Day visits
No — overnight guests only.
Day visit price
Not confirmed
Chorakuen does not take day visitors at all - no bathing, no lunch plan. Travel sites still list its 120-tsubo open-air bath among things to do in Tamatsukuri, but the only way in is to stay. The group's sister hotel, Tamatsukuri Kokusai Hotel, takes day bathers in water piped from the same source.
Staying overnight
Yes
Getting there
In the middle of Tamatsukuri Onsen by the Magatama bridge over the Tamayu river. A scheduled shuttle bus runs from JR Tamatsukuri-Onsen Station via the group's Tamatsukuri Kokusai Hotel. Check-in from 15:00 (18:00 at the latest), check-out 10:00; free parking. A 150 yen bathing tax is added to the room rate.
Official website
www.choraku.co.jp

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What we have not confirmed

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