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 2026-08-29
How it scores
Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.
The baths
Open-air bath
Several different open-air tubs using Shirahama hot-spring water.
Open to day visitors
Indoor bath
A large indoor bath and a sauna. A separate paid ganbanyoku (heated stone-bed) complex includes a room lined with rock salt.
Open to day visitors
Practical details
- Day visits
- Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.9:00-23:00 (last entry 22:30). Stone-sauna (ganbanyoku) 9:00-22:30, last entry 22:00. Irregular closing days announced on the website.
- Day visit price
- ¥980Adult (junior-high age and over) 980 yen, child (3 years to elementary school) 500 yen, both tax included. The ganbanyoku stone-sauna rooms cost 1,000 yen on top. No towels are provided in the changing room; towels are sold on site.
- Staying overnight
- No
- Getting there
- Beside the Toretore Ichiba seafood market on the edge of Shirahama, roughly 10 minutes by car or bus from JR Shirahama Station. Free parking.
- Official website
- toretore.com/yu