Tattoo shops in Bergen

A tattoo is a permanent decision made in a room you'll spend hours in, so the studio matters as much as the artist. Bergen, Vestland has 8 tattoo shops mapped right now. All 8 are mapped as tattoo studios proper, and each one is worth a portfolio browse before you commit — style varies more between shops than towns.

This guide covers every tattoo shop we could verify in and around Bergen (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Leading Light and Bergen Ink Center, plus Lets Buzz. If a studio's missing from Bergen's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Bergen tattoo lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Bergen

4 of the 8 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — tattoo studios often work by appointment, so posted hours can be more of a guideline than a promise.

3 have websites listed. Studios with websites usually show portfolios there — the fastest way to tell if a shop's style matches yours.

The Bergen tattoo shop tour

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Leading Light, Bergen Ink Center, Lets Buzz, Star Ink Tattoo Bergen, Witchy Bitchy Beauty Spot & Original Import, Open Mind Tattoo, North Star Tattoo Bergen, and Båskjell Tattoo Studio. That's 8 stops on the Bergen tattoo shop tour.

Tattoo tips for Bergen

Picking a studio in Bergen? A little homework pays off:

• Trust the artist's placement advice at Leading Light. They've seen thousands of bodies. If they say the design won't age well there, listen.
• Don't haggle on price at Bergen Ink Center. You're paying for hours of someone's skilled labour on your skin forever. Bargain hunting has no place in a tattoo shop.
• No swimming while it heals. Pools, lakes, hot tubs — all off limits for two to three weeks. Fresh tattoos and bacteria don't mix.
• Think about placement long-term. Hands, neck and face limit job options in some fields. Your artist will be honest about this if you ask.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Bergen — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new tattoo shop in Bergen can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 8 that's closed, or a great tattoo shop we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't rate studios or artists, and we never list prices — those are between you and the shop. What we list is the where and the how-to-find, from places real mappers have verified.

If you run one of the 8 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.