Guides
Start here if you have tattoos and want to try a Japanese bath. Every guide is built from the same 296 checked listings.
- Can you go to an onsen with tattoos?
What the rules mean, the national guidance, private baths and what to say at reception.
- Baths that use cover stickers
The sticker size and number allowed at 117 baths, and other conditions.
- Tattoo-friendly ryokan and hotels
109 inns and hotels by region.
- Near Tokyo
113 baths within 150 km, sorted by distance.
- Near Osaka and Kyoto
49 baths within 150 km, sorted by distance.
Onsen towns
- Hakone Kanagawa · 8 baths
- Kusatsu Gunma · 8 baths
- Beppu Oita · 12 baths
- Kinosaki Onsen Hyogo · 6 baths
- Nikko and Kinugawa Tochigi · 6 baths
- Kaga Onsen and Awazu Ishikawa · 9 baths
- Ito Shizuoka · 5 baths
- Shirahama Wakayama · 5 baths