Tattoo shops in Provincetown

Thinking about ink in Provincetown, Massachusetts? 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 Provincetown (within about 8 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Mooncusser Tattoo and Coastline Tattoo. If a studio's missing from Provincetown's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Provincetown tattoo lineup

2 in Provincetown:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Provincetown

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.

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

The two mapped tattoo shops sit on 3 Standish Street and 290a Commercial Street — close enough to make a single outing of it.

The Provincetown tattoo shop tour

The efficient Provincetown tattoo shop tour strings these together: Mooncusser Tattoo on 3 Standish Street and Coastline Tattoo on 290a Commercial Street — 2 stops, one logical order.

Tattoo tips for Provincetown

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

• Plan around your calendar at Mooncusser Tattoo. Don't get tattooed right before a beach holiday or a marathon. Give it two quiet weeks.
• Bring reference images at Coastline Tattoo. Artists work better from references than from descriptions. Collect images of the style, not just the subject.
• 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.
• Avoid the cheapest shop in town. There's a reason it's the cheapest. With tattoos you get exactly what you pay for, permanently.

Good to know

We searched about 8 km around Provincetown — 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 Provincetown can take a while to appear. The 2 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 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.