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Kyoto Arashiyama Onsen Kadensho

京都 嵐山温泉 花伝抄 · Arashiyama Onsen

OK in a private bath (overnight)

Can you bathe here with a tattoo?

This is the question we built the site around, so we answer it per situation.

Staying overnight

Yes, if you take a private bath

Tattoos are not allowed in the shared baths, but you can bathe in a private or in-room bath.

Source: official website · checked 2026-08-29

How it scores

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

ViewWaterComfortSettingAccess

Rated from research

View2.5
Water2.5
Comfort4.5
Setting3
Access5
○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here
○Anything else nearby — In the middle of things

Five private bath houses along an interior lane, all free, unreserved and open around the clock - you check the lamp and walk in - which answers most privacy and tattoo problems in Arashiyama. Read the small print, though: those five and the open-air bath are heated tap water, and only the indoor stone bath uses the Arashiyama spring.

Scored from official photos, maps and transport information — not from a visit.

The baths

Private (kashikiri) bath

The reason to know this inn: five private bath houses along the 'yumeguri koji' lane, all FREE and with no reservation system - you just check the 'in use' lamp and walk in - available 24 hours. Three of them are open-air: 'Akane no Yu' (modern brick), 'Chikutei no Yu' (surrounded by bamboo) and 'Kinu no Yu' (white Western style); the other two are indoor, 'Kiri no Yu' (steam bath plus a barrel tub for one) and 'Muso no Yu' (hinoki cypress). Note these five are heated tap-water baths, not hot spring water.

Overnight guests only

Indoor bath

The main bath house 'Heian no Yu', whose indoor stone bath uses the natural Arashiyama hot spring (simple spring, hypotonic and weakly alkaline, 35.2 degrees at source). Open 15:00 to 11:00 the next morning; the sauna closes 1:00-5:00.

Overnight guests only

Open-air bath

Open-air rock bath with a medicinal bath. The inn states the open-air bath is not hot spring water.

Overnight guests only

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
Not confirmed.
Day visit price
Not confirmed
Staying overnight
Yes
Getting there
5-4 Arashiyama Nishi-ichikawa-cho, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto (postal code 616-0003). About 1 minute on foot from Hankyu Arashiyama Station, 10 minutes from Randen Arashiyama, 20 minutes from JR Saga-Arashiyama (16 minutes from Kyoto Station on the Sagano Line). 101 rooms; 27 on-site parking spaces at 1,500 yen per night, first come first served. Do not confuse it with the same company's Umekoji Kadensho and Omuro Kadensho elsewhere in Kyoto - the inn says this happens often.
Official website
dormy-hotels.com/resort/hotels/kadensho

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