Tattoo shops in Mumbai

A tattoo is a permanent decision made in a room you'll spend hours in, so the studio matters as much as the artist. Mumbai, Maharashtra 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 Mumbai (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Hakim Alims Tattoo and Alva's Al's Tattoo Studio, plus RJ Tattoo. If a studio's missing from Mumbai's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Mumbai tattoo lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Mumbai

None of the 8 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.

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

The Mumbai tattoo shop tour

Making a day of it in Mumbai? Work this order: Hakim Alims Tattoo, Alva's Al's Tattoo Studio, RJ Tattoo, Ironbuzz Tattoos and Art Cafe, Pulsatink Tattoo Studio, Dots & Lines, Inksane Tattoo Studio, and Shayona. That's the tattoo shop tour in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Tattoo tips for Mumbai

A few things worth knowing before you work through Mumbai's tattoo shops:

• Document the healing at Hakim Alims Tattoo. Photos of the healing process help your artist advise you, and help you judge their work honestly.
• Tip your artist at Alva's Al's Tattoo Studio. Standard practice, like any skilled service. Twenty percent is the usual benchmark for good work.
• Trust the artist's placement advice. They've seen thousands of bodies. If they say the design won't age well there, listen.
• Don't drink the night before. Alcohol thins the blood and makes you bleed more, which pushes ink out. Arrive sober and hydrated.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Mumbai — 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 Mumbai can take a while to appear. The 8 above are only as current as the community map. A tattoo shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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.