Yunosaka Kurume Onsen

湯の坂久留米温泉

Tattoos not allowed (day visit)Tattoos not allowed (overnight)

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 2026-08-30

Staying overnight

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 2026-08-30

How it scores

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

Verified by the editor

Water4.5

Comfort3.5

Setting2

Access4

○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here

×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

A self-flowing sulphur spring struck in 1988 in the middle of the Chikugo plain, which is unusual in itself - 48C, 400 litres a minute, pH 9.5, and run through the baths without recirculation. Open until 1:00 every night, with recliner rooms, a cafe, eight private baths and a small hotel attached, so it works as a late stop rather than a destination: the setting is suburban Kurume, not countryside. Tattooed visitors are refused entry to the building outright.

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

An open-air bath looking onto a garden, with two Shigaraki-ware pottery tubs on each side and an outdoor cooling area.

Open to day visitors

Indoor bath

The large indoor bath includes Yakushi-yu, a reclining shallow tub, a 110 cm deep standing tub, a cold plunge fed by well water from 130 m down, and an automatic-loyly sauna rebuilt in April 2024.

Open to day visitors

Private (kashikiri) bath

Eight private family baths with generous changing rooms; the source runs hot, so you cool it to taste yourself. Bara-no-yu has a loyly sauna. Book through the official LINE account between a week and a day ahead - phone bookings are not taken and same-day is walk-in only at the desk. NOTE: the facility bars tattooed guests from entering at all, so these are not a way around the rule.

Open to day visitors

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.
Mon-Sat 10:00-1:00, Sun 7:00-1:00 (last entry midnight)
Day visit price: ¥880
880 yen on weekdays and 930 yen at weekends and on holidays buys a three-hour stay; an all-day ticket until closing at 1:00 is 1,600/1,800 yen and includes the 30 yen bathing tax. Children of primary-school age are 450 yen and ages 3 to 6 are 200 yen. Private family baths are 2,300-2,700 yen per room for 50 minutes, or 4,000-6,000 yen for the one with a loyly sauna. Towels are sold, not lent.
Staying overnight: Yes
Getting there: In Nonaka-machi on the eastern edge of Kurume. Nishitetsu buses run from JR Kurume Station in about 15 minutes and from Nishitetsu Kurume Station in about 5; on the Horikawa bus, get off at the Yunosaka stop and walk 400 m. About 10 minutes from the Kurume IC by car.
Official website: kurume-onsen.com

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