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Originally Posted by GoNative
I have a tattoo and have been to many onsens throughout Hokkaido and have never had a problem. Never heard of anyone up here with tatts ever having a problem. In fact been to quite a few onsens where there were yakuza who were covered in tatts from the neck down. Not sure if it's just in Hokkaido but the whole tatt thing in onsens just doesn't seem to be much of an issue up here.
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I went to a sento a few years ago in eastern Osaka and there were like a half dozen yakuza with full jackets there. I asked my girlfriend about it and she said that some neighborhoods are very yakuza-friendly, or yakuza-owned, depending on how you look at it, and in those places it's whatev'. She said a lot of buraku areas tend to be that way. Perhaps that was your experience, or maybe Hokkaido is different from mainland in that respect...