Ryusenji no Yu
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Official policy: OK if covered
店指定のカバーシール（9.5×14.0cm、1枚200円）2枚以内で覆えるタトゥーなら、貼ったうえで利用できます。覆えない場合は入館不可です（公式サイトより）。
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Got inNobody said anything to me.
Hmm…Every location in the chain refuses bathing to people with tattoos... Even if you play dumb and go in, if some customer with a strong sense of justice rats you out, you'll get kicked out.
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I've been several times, but young guys will snitch on you quite a lot. A couple of times I was told, "Once you've finished washing, please leave."
- Got in
There are always a few people with them, so isn't it fine?
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Facility information
- Address
- Moriyama Ward, Nagoya, Aichi愛知県名古屋市守山区竜泉寺1丁目1501Map
- Phone
- 052-793-2601
- Hours
- 6:00〜翌2:30（最終受付 1:45）
- Nearest stations
- 小幡緑地、白沢渓谷、春日井
- Website
- www.ryusenjinoyu.com/moriyama/
Added by Tattoo GO 事務局
Spots you can't hide can't be helped, but walking around covering up with a towel, I could go. But the looks from people around and comments like "Is that ink!?" are annoying.
If your tattoo is small enough to be covered by just 2 of our designated cover stickers (9.5 x 14.0 cm, sold for 200 yen each), you may use the facility with them on.
There's a Ryusenji no Yu near me, but I have tattoos so I don't go. Lately I often see other bath facilities trying out one tattoo-OK day per week, and I wish Ryusenji no Yu would do that too. If their policy is an absolute ban, then that can't be helped, and of course I won't go, but from what I've seen online it looks like a really nice facility, so I'd like to try it.
My American niece is coming, so I was planning to take her to the lovely Hotaru no Yu. I called several Ryusenji locations, including Hachioji and Kanagawa, and the answer was, "Even foreigners, even with a small tattoo, we refuse entry across the board." They said they also refuse entry if you cover it with a cover sticker. My niece has one about 5 cm on her wrist, so I thought maybe I could hide it with a bandage, but I didn't want to break the rules, get caught and have a bad experience, so I gave up on taking her. It's a real shame.
I asked by phone, and they said it's a no even with a sticker, and it's a no across the whole group.
I have tattoos on my thigh, ankle and chest. Basically you can't get in. Even with stickers on, it's a no. Places you can get into for around 1,000 yen are probably tough... I was able to get into private baths or Kasugai Onsen. If you just slip in and leave quickly...
I think people going into these facilities should also be careful and put on stickers that hide tattoos, wounds or bruises. If you got tattooed, you presumably understood and accepted that you'd run into situations like this. Shouldn't you follow the manners of the place? I say this as someone who's thinking of getting a tattoo myself. It's for life, and I understand there's a bad image: beaches, pools, onsen, sento, "I don't get it," "people with tattoos are crazy." Even so, if it's a no and I get found out and kicked out, in the end it's my own fault, so I think it can't be helped. By the way, as a test I got a tattoo that fades in a few weeks and went in, and nobody noticed.
You, the one who yelled at the end and left with a towel held over yourself: do you get now why you're banned? Irezumi = people who tend to cause trouble. People who know the rules and ignore them to come in are no longer customers, so of course they get treated like that.
A few years ago, my wife (who's not Japanese) had a small tattoo (about 5 cm across), and with the careless thought that something that small would be fine, the four of us (my 3-year-old son, 1-year-old daughter, and us) went to Ryusenji no Yu. We split up into the men's and women's baths and agreed to come out after about an hour. My son and I took our time and came out an hour later, but my wife and daughter weren't there yet. I thought, "Maybe they're still taking their time," and when I looked off into the distance, my daughter and wife were waiting with worried looks in the cold spot just inside the outer entrance of the bathhouse. It was February. When I asked, "What happened?", she said that when she took her clothes off in the changing room, a staff member kept staring at her, and she thought it was creepy, and then they pointed out the tattoo, and since my wife's Japanese isn't perfect, she was made to go outside before she really understood what was going on. Then when I asked the staff, "What's going on?", they told me with a really cold look, "Tattoos aren't allowed, so we had her leave." I totally lost it! "Look! I get that it's not allowed, but there's a problem with how you handled it!" "Isn't it inhumane to insult a foreigner who doesn't understand the language well and a 1-year-old baby, and throw them out like criminals?" Then the manager came out and said, "Raising your voice is a nuisance to our customers. Please leave." I lost it even more: "Fine, I'm leaving!" I threw the towel I was holding at his face and left, but even now when I remember it, I can't stand how frustrating it is. I get that it's not allowed, but I think there are ways to handle it, like saying "Please don't next time," or letting them wait somewhere warm, or saying "Sorry, it's the rules" and offering a cup of tea or something. Instead they treated them like criminals, threw them out, and were insulting about it, and that's no way to treat a woman and a baby, right?! Did we commit some crime? If anything, this place taught me how scary people can be.
While I was washing, I think they were cleaning and checking at the same time. As soon as they spotted me, they glared at me and said, "Please leave the facility immediately." They followed me all the way out to the changing room, and it made me feel sick. Even though I had a towel wrapped around me...