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Prefectures / Tokushima

Aratae no Yu (Tokushima)

徳島天然温泉 あらたえの湯

Tattoos not allowed (day visit)

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

No — tattooed guests are turned away

Guests with tattoos are refused entry to the facility, so private baths are not an option either.

Source: official website · checked 2026-09-24

How it scores

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

ViewWaterComfortSettingAccess

Verified by the editor

View1.5
Water4
Comfort3.5
Setting1.5
Access2.5
○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here
×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

An urban super-sento, open until 1 or 2 in the morning, with a soba restaurant, massage and a floor of stone saunas. It earns its place on the water: a free-flowing source bath so concentrated the facility calls it hypertonic. There is nothing to look at and nothing natural about the setting, and it refuses entry with a tattoo even if covered.

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

Indoor bath

A large city bathhouse with ten kinds of bath, fed from a source 800 m underground. The standout is the free-flowing source bath: no water added (it is heated), with a very high mineral concentration. Also a high-concentration carbonated bath, one-person Shigaraki pottery tubs, jet and electric baths, dry and salt saunas with loyly, and a stone-sauna floor.

Open to day visitors

Open-air bath

The facility's English page lists open-air baths among its ten.

Open to day visitors

Practical details

Day visits
Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.
8:00-1:00 the next morning (last entry midnight); Fridays, Saturdays and the day before a public holiday until 2:00 (last entry 1:00). Closed on the second Wednesday of each month.
Day visit price
Not confirmed
The official fee table is published only as an image, so we have not recorded a price.
Staying overnight
No
Getting there
In Minami-Tamiya in Tokushima city. The official access page shows a map only; a car or taxi is the practical way to get there.
Official website
aratae.jp

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Staying nearby

Where to stay in TokushimaBooking.com ↗

What we have not confirmed

We would rather show a gap than guess.