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Tattoo-friendly onsen guides

English guides from the makers of Tattoo OK Map · Updated 2026-09-12

Every facility named in these guides is there because the facility itself, or its municipality, published its tattoo policy. Each entry links to that page and shows the date we read it. Facilities whose pages say nothing are called "unconfirmed", not tattoo-friendly. That makes these lists shorter than a directory's and more useful at the counter.

Guides

Private onsen with tattoos in HakoneHakone Yuryo lifted its ban on 2025-04-01; 19 private rooms from ¥10,400 per 120 minutes; booking cut-offs and cover rules elsewhere Tattoo-friendly onsen and saunas in KyotoTwo fully private saunas in Nakagyo, one super sento with a 13×19 cm sticker rule, and how Kyoto sento treat tattoos Nagano onsen and tattoosZero verified tattoo-OK baths; what Nozawa, Shibu and Hakuba official pages say; public bath vs ryokan Tattoo onsen in Okinawa22 spring sources against Oita's 5,094; a private sauna, a hotel pool, and one famous refusal Sento tattoo rules in JapanThe Public Bath Act never mentions tattoos; sento vs onsen; the JNTO position; what "unconfirmed" means Tattoo cover sticker sizes at Japanese onsen14 facilities' written rules: 8×12 to 13×19 cm, 1 or 2 stickers, ¥200 to ¥310; when covering is pointless

The verified list

The data behind these guides is published in Japanese at /tattoo-onsen/list.html: 112 facilities in 17 prefectures, 91 tattoo-OK and 21 cover-required, each with the source page and check date. Beppu (33), Tokyo (24) and the Kusatsu and Kinosaki town baths account for most of it.

Tattoo OK Map

Tattoo OK Map puts 10,470 onsen, sento and saunas across Japan on one map and marks each as tattoo-OK, cover-required or unconfirmed. The OK and cover labels come only from published policies, with the source URL and last check date on the entry. Five interface languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

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Find onsen, sento and saunas in Japan that admit tattoos. Every verified entry has a source URL and a check date

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