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
A 1991 municipal health spa modelled on a European Kurhaus. The 'Bade zone' has a pour-over bath, bubble bath, full-body bath, jet bath, cascade bath (utase-yu), exercise bath and reclining bath, plus a walking pool and a tatami rest room outside the bathing area. Swimwear is used in the exercise zone.
Indoor bath
Sauna, included in the 700 yen entry.
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.10:00-22:00 (last entry 21:00)
- Day visit price
- ¥700700 yen for adults (junior high school age and up), 350 yen for children, free under school age. The training room is a separate 310 yen and can be used without bathing. Closed every Tuesday (the following day if that is a public holiday).
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- At 1-8-20 Hamawaki, next to Hamawaki Onsen and a few minutes' walk from JR Higashi-Beppu Station. 32 parking spaces; bathers get 3 hours free in the underground car park.
- Official website
- www.city.beppu.oita.jp/sisetu/shieionsen/detail2.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.