JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNAS65 saunas
Saunas with natural hot springs in Japan
65 saunas in Japan with natural hot spring baths, as stated on their official websites. Areas include Yokohama, Misawa, Chigasaki, Nishi-Kamata, Takeo, Sannomiya. Each page has photos, hours and how to get there, with the address in Japanese.
A “travel-mood sento” that keeps its Showa-era tile pictures
Hot spring and sauna surrounded by mountain nature
A kelo-wood hut and a marble hammam
A meditation sauna with a single shaft of light, and Kumamoto groundwater
A 24-hour hot spring and sauna in Kabukicho
A hot-spring hotel sauna with a cold bath of Jozankei groundwater
A moor hot spring, and a sauna walled with birch rounds
The first auto-löyly sauna in Yunokawa Onsen
A 100 °C “sky sauna” and open-air rest on the 12th floor
A golden hot spring and a dry sauna with löyly
Two cold baths: river underflow and hot spring water
A public hot spring bath built around a wooden engawa
A hot spring sento with nothing added — no water, no heating
A natural hot spring, a carbonated bath and a silk bath
An outdoor rock bath of natural hot spring, and an auto-löyly sauna
Natural hot spring × carbonated spring: the “golden carbonated spring”
Black natural hot spring in five tubs
A natural hot spring carbonated bath and a bench bath
A hollowed-out natural hot spring tub and a carbonated hinoki bath
Three saunas: Tarujobo, Enjobo and Kōonbo
Free-flowing natural hot spring and a far-infrared tower sauna
A junmai sake bath and a far-infrared tower sauna
A loess sauna and a natural hot spring rock bath
A 14-barrel bazooka sauna and a Fuji-view rock bath
A meditation sauna and a kampo herbal salt sauna
A tall-tiered sauna and free-flowing source water
A scorching sauna and a black hot spring carbonated bath
A dim sauna and a hot spring cold bath
A löyly sauna and a sauna with three air vents
An 85 °C high-temperature sauna and a 68 °C salt sauna
An aroma löyly sauna and a wooden outdoor bath
A löyly sauna and free-flowing spring water
A sauna with auto-löyly and a far-infrared high-temperature sauna
A tower sauna and a free-flowing rock bath
A sauna garden for 30+ that men and women enjoy together
A dry sauna with healing music and a cold bath about 100 cm deep
A steam room of wooden tiers and two kinds of hot spring
Three saunas and an outdoor deck in the wind from the Suzuka mountains
A far-infrared sauna and a free-flowing outdoor rock bath
A sauna that frames the mountains, and a tiled steam sauna
Auto-löyly and a totonoi area where you feel the breeze
A far-infrared high-temperature sauna and a salt sauna that sprays mist
A wooden sauna with a window and an outdoor bath facing Tokyo Bay
A brick-and-wood sauna and outdoor baths at the foot of Mt Takao
A cave-like sauna and a well-water cold bath
A high-temperature sauna and a Japanese-style self-löyly sauna
Bathe in hot spring water that changes with the season, in a cave-like private room
A Misawa hot spring sento with a wooden ceiling and hot spring tubs
“Kasumi no Yu” with water from Ikeda Sakura Onsen, and a forest sauna
“Sea” and “Sky” saunas facing the Sea of Japan, in a Taisho-era annexe
A hot spring sento running since the Taisho era, renovated to open onto the street
Designed by Shigeru Ban: a hot spring with a 100 m walking bath and a sauna
A city-centre ryokan's baths and saunas, with Karurusu Onsen water
Natural hot spring rock and hinoki baths, and a tower sauna with hot and cooler zones
An 8th-floor outdoor bath and an auto-löyly tower sauna
A double-stove sauna (iki and Bona) and a mugwort steam sauna
A theatre-style far-infrared sauna and Shigaraki-ware jar baths
A low-temperature löyly sauna and a cave salt sauna
A steam kiln you lie down in, and a far-infrared sauna
A far-infrared sauna and free-flowing black spring water
Auto-löyly twice an hour and black spring water outdoors
An outdoor stone bath, a loess sauna and a salt sauna
Yugawara hot spring water outdoors, and auto löyly every hour on the hour
A 95 °C dry sauna, and a cold bath of natural hot spring water at 17 °C
Hot spring water trucked in from Yugawara, and a hot sauna with löyly every day
