Tattoo shops in Chennai

Thinking about ink in Chennai, Tamil Nadu? Start with the studios: 2 are mapped here. All 2 are mapped as tattoo studios proper, and each one is worth a portfolio browse before you commit — style varies more between shops than towns. A consultation costs nothing and tells you everything about how a shop runs.

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

The Chennai tattoo lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Chennai

None of the 2 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Most tattoo studios work by appointment anyway, so call or message before dropping in.

The Chennai tattoo shop tour

The efficient Chennai tattoo shop tour strings these together: R Cube Tattoos and Tantra Tattoo — 2 stops, one logical order.

Tattoo tips for Chennai

First tattoo or fiftieth — the rules don't change in Chennai:

• Avoid the cheapest shop in town at R Cube Tattoos. There's a reason it's the cheapest. With tattoos you get exactly what you pay for, permanently.
• Ask about touch-ups at Tantra Tattoo. Most reputable shops offer free or cheap touch-ups within the first year. Ask about the policy up front.
• No swimming while it heals. Pools, lakes, hot tubs — all off limits for two to three weeks. Fresh tattoos and bacteria don't mix.
• Bring reference images. Artists work better from references than from descriptions. Collect images of the style, not just the subject.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Chennai — 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 Chennai can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 2 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 2 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.