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
Plain indoor municipal bathhouse, sodium bicarbonate spring. Entrance ramp, no steps and handrails at the tub, so it is one of the more accessible city baths.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.6:30-22:30 (closed 14:00-15:00 for cleaning)
- Day visit price
- ¥200200 yen for adults (junior high school age and up), 100 yen for children, free under school age. Closed the 1st Tuesday of the month. Towel 300 yen, soap 150 yen, shampoo sachet 50 yen.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- At 4-23 Tanoyu-cho, roughly a 10 minute walk south-west of JR Beppu Station. No parking of its own.
- Official website
- www.city.beppu.oita.jp/sisetu/shieionsen/detail6.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.