Tattoo shops in Riga
A tattoo is a permanent decision made in a room you'll spend hours in, so the studio matters as much as the artist. Riga, Riga has 20 tattoo shops mapped right now. All 20 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 Riga (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Viptattoo and Vean, plus Vadim Tattoo. If a studio's missing from Riga's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.
The Riga tattoo lineup
20 mapped within about 40 km:
Viptattoo
Tattoo studio
Viptattoo — Tattoo studio, found on 17 Lāčplēša iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about Viptattoo: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 11:00-19:00; Sa 11:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
17 Lāčplēša iela, Rīga, LV-1011
Hours: Mo-Fr 11:00-19:00; Sa 11:00-17:00
Phone: +371-26101323
Vean
Tattoo studio
Vean is Tattoo studio on 2 Mazā Monētu iela, Rīga. Vean also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 11:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2 Mazā Monētu iela, Rīga, LV-1050
Hours: 11:00-20:00
Phone: +371 25 579 089
Vadim Tattoo
Tattoo studio
Vadim Tattoo — Tattoo studio, found on 60 Krišjāņa Barona iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about Vadim Tattoo: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
60 Krišjāņa Barona iela, Rīga, LV-1011
Phone: +371 67 844 144
Skalle
Tattoo studio
Skalle — Tattoo studio, found on 121 Aleksandra Čaka iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about Skalle: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-16:00; Sa 10:00-14:00.
121 Aleksandra Čaka iela, Rīga, LV-1011
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-16:00; Sa 10:00-14:00
Black Cat Tattoo
Tattoo studio
Black Cat Tattoo — Tattoo studio, found on 66 Aleksandra Čaka iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about Black Cat Tattoo: the map lists its hours as "by appointment".
66 Aleksandra Čaka iela, Rīga, LV-1011
Hours: "by appointment"
Mosquito tattoo
Tattoo studio
Mosquito tattoo — Tattoo studio, found on 17 Jauniela in Rīga.
17 Jauniela, Rīga, LV-1050
Collective art & tattoo studio
Tattoo studio
Collective art & tattoo studio — Tattoo studio, found on 11 Kuģu iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about Collective art & tattoo studio: the map lists its hours as Mo 13:00-19:00; Tu-Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-15:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
11 Kuģu iela, Rīga, LV-1048
Hours: Mo 13:00-19:00; Tu-Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-15:00
Phone: +371 67401854
Rebel Tattoo
Tattoo studio
Rebel Tattoo is Tattoo studio on 10 k-4 Stabu iela, Rīga. Rebel Tattoo also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
10 k-4 Stabu iela, Rīga, LV-1010
Phone: +371 26248986
NAI_S cosmetics
Tattoo studioRun by SIA "GB Tops"
Run by SIA "GB Tops", NAI_S cosmetics is Tattoo studio, found on 22 Brīvības iela in Ogre. Also worth knowing about NAI_S cosmetics: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
22 Brīvības iela, Ogre, LV-5001
Phone: +371 264 991 10
KIKI Fam
Tattoo studio
KIKI Fam — Tattoo studio, found on 12 Miera iela in Rīga.
12 Miera iela, Rīga, LV-1001
Tattoo Riga
Tattoo studio
Tattoo Riga — Tattoo studio, found on 10 Ēveles iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about Tattoo Riga: the map lists its hours as 24/7; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
10 Ēveles iela, Rīga, LV-1013
Hours: 24/7
Phone: +37124922686
VeAn Tattoo
Tattoo & piercing studio
VeAn Tattoo is Tattoo & piercing studio on 37 Vaļņu iela, Rīga. VeAn Tattoo also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 11:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
37 Vaļņu iela, Rīga, LV-1050
Hours: Mo-Su 11:00-20:00
Phone: +371 22 035 682
Raven's Nest
Tattoo studio
Raven's Nest is Tattoo studio on 4 Maiznīcas iela, Rīga. Raven's Nest also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
4 Maiznīcas iela, Rīga, LV-1001
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00
Phone: +371 28 325 184
Velvet Cherry Tattoo
Tattoo studio
Velvet Cherry Tattoo — Tattoo studio, found on 22 Brīvības iela in Ogre.
22 Brīvības iela, Ogre, LV-5001
tattoo.lv
Tattoo studio
tattoo.lv — Tattoo studio, found on 170 Brīvības iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about tattoo.lv: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 11:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; it has a website with more detail.
170 Brīvības iela, Rīga, LV-1012
Hours: Mo-Fr 11:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-16:00
Atelier 23
Tattoo studio
Atelier 23 — Tattoo studio, found on 8 Riharda Vāgnera iela in Rīga.
8 Riharda Vāgnera iela, Rīga, LV-1050
Rigas Tinte
Tattoo studio
Rigas Tinte — Tattoo studio, found on 45/47 Krišjāņa Barona iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about Rigas Tinte: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00.
45/47 Krišjāņa Barona iela, Rīga, LV-1011
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00
Envy Tattoo Studio
Tattoo studioRun by Nikita Vavra
Envy Tattoo Studio is Tattoo studio run by Nikita Vavra on 33 Stabu iela, Rīga. Envy Tattoo Studio also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 11:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
33 Stabu iela, Rīga, LV-1011
Hours: Mo-Su 11:00-19:00
Phone: +37129808334
Tattoo Art Gallery
Tattoo studio
Tattoo Art Gallery is Tattoo studio on 44 Stabu iela, Rīga. Tattoo Art Gallery also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 12:00-20:00; Sa 12:00-18:00; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
44 Stabu iela, Rīga, LV-1011
Hours: Mo-Fr 12:00-20:00; Sa 12:00-18:00; Su off
Phone: +371 25 500 533
Ink&Chill
Tattoo studio
Ink&Chill — Tattoo studio, found on 5 Audēju iela in Rīga. Also worth knowing about Ink&Chill: it has a website with more detail.
5 Audēju iela, Rīga, LV-1050
What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Riga
12 of the 20 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.
11 have websites listed. Studios with websites usually show portfolios there — the fastest way to tell if a shop's style matches yours.
There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on 22 Brīvības iela, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
Most of the tattoo shops in Riga list a phone number. Use it — a quick call tells you more about a studio's vibe than any review.
1 of the studios are also tagged for piercings, handy if you're after both in one visit.
The Riga tattoo shop tour
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Viptattoo on 17 Lāčplēša iela, Vean on 2 Mazā Monētu iela, Vadim Tattoo on 60 Krišjāņa Barona iela, Skalle on 121 Aleksandra Čaka iela, Black Cat Tattoo on 66 Aleksandra Čaka iela, Mosquito tattoo on 17 Jauniela, Collective art & tattoo studio on 11 Kuģu iela, and Rebel Tattoo on 10 k-4 Stabu iela. That's 20 stops on the Riga tattoo shop tour. 12 more are listed below.
Tattoo tips for Riga
Picking a studio in Riga? A little homework pays off:
- Trust the artist's placement advice at Viptattoo. They've seen thousands of bodies. If they say the design won't age well there, listen.
- Don't haggle on price at Vean. You're paying for hours of someone's skilled labour on your skin forever. Bargain hunting has no place in a tattoo shop.
- Check the sterilisation setup. Single-use needles, sealed ink caps, gloves changed constantly. A good studio is happy to show you; a bad one gets defensive.
- Moisturise, don't drown it. Thin layers of the recommended ointment. Too much suffocates the skin and slows healing.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Riga — 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 Riga can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 20 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 20 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.
Tattoo shop listings for Riga: 20 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.