Hotel Sakurai

草津温泉ホテル櫻井 · Kusatsu Onsen

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.

Staying overnight

No — tattooed guests are turned away

Tattoos are not permitted.

Source: official website · checked 2026-08-29

How it scores

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

Rated from research

Water4.5

Comfort4

Setting2.5

Access4.5

○Somewhere to sit — You can spend the day here

○Anything else nearby — In the middle of things

Three sources including Wata-no-yu, which you cannot get in any of the free village baths, plus the largest bath hall in Kusatsu and a recently rebuilt changing room. It is a big group hotel rather than a quiet inn, and it takes no day visitors, so it only counts if you are staying. Anyone with a tattoo should look elsewhere: the ban is absolute and there is no private bath.

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

The baths

Indoor bath

At roughly 30 metres end to end this is the longest bath hall in Kusatsu. Water is a blend of the Bandaiko and Nishi-no-Kawara sources, undiluted and unheated. Open 14:00 to 10:00 the next morning with no men/women swap; closed 10:00-14:00 for cleaning. A separate pair of baths, 'Rindo' and 'Shakunage', is limited to 20 groups a day and needs a 3,000 yen card bought at the front desk; they run 15:00 to 10:00 the next morning.

Overnight guests only

Open-air bath

Rock-built open-air bath fed by a blend that includes the Wata-no-yu source, the milkiest of Kusatsu's springs and one no communal bathhouse in the village pipes in. NOTE ON ROOM BATHS: twelve rooms on the 6th floor of the Hon-kyakuden have their own open-air tub, but the hotel states plainly that these are NOT hot spring - they are filled with heated ordinary water. They are deliberately not recorded here as a bath, because they are no substitute for the onsen and must not be read as a way around the tattoo ban.

Overnight guests only

Practical details

Day visits: No — overnight guests only.
Day visit price: Not confirmed
The hotel does not sell bathing-only day tickets.
Staying overnight: Yes
Getting there: From Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi Station on the JR Agatsuma Line take the JR bus about 25 minutes to Kusatsu Onsen Bus Terminal; the hotel is about five minutes' walk from there and also runs a free shuttle. About 300 free parking spaces.
Official website: www.hotel-sakurai.co.jp

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