Tatsunokuchi Onsen Tagawa Ryusenkaku

The room was large and comfortable. The bathroom was also large for a Japanese style ryokan. The outdoor onsen was beautiful, but it was closed the next morning so we only enjoyed it the first night we were there.

The outdoor onsen caretaker was very rude and yelled at us incessantly in Japanese because we had removed the wrap towel inside the bath. Apparently, since it's co-ed, you were supposed to leave the heavy towel wrap on. At most onsens, even some co-ed ones, you do not wear anything inside the water, so they need to explain in English that at this onsen you keep it on at all times. The English sign just said to put it on in the changing area, and the used towels in the bucket there were dry, so I assumed you didn't wear the towel inside the water. It would have been fine if he explained it to us kindly. Even after we complied and I apologized for being an unknowing foreigner, he kept watching us and I felt uncomfortable.