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
Private (kashikiri) bath
Two reservation-only private rooms. 'Ao no Yu' is blue-toned and looks out on a small courtyard garden; 'Akane no Yu' is pink and violet. Weakly alkaline simple spring, clear and soft, with over 150 mg/L of metasilicic acid. The hot source is cooled by an in-house hinoki cypress cooling rig called 'Yumehinoki' that drops it to about 50C without adding water, so the water stays free-flowing with a faint cypress scent. This was a members-only co-operative bath until it reopened as a public family bath in 2021.
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
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.11:30-17:30
- Day visit price
- ¥600Reservation-only private bath in 45 minute slots, charged per person: Akane no Yu 600 yen adult / 300 yen child, Midori no Yu (Ao no Yu) 800 yen adult / 400 yen child. Book online by the day before; same-day bookings by phone until 15:30. Closing days are irregular. PayPay is the only cashless option; towels are sold on site.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- At 4-6 Tenman-cho, about a 10 minute walk from JR Beppu Station - one of the few private baths in Beppu you can reach on foot from the station. Has parking. Reservations on 070-1941-1126 or online.
- Official website
- select-type.com/p/yumehinoki
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.