JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNAS46 saunas
Saunas with outdoor rest areas in Japan
46 saunas in Japan with a place to rest in the open air, as stated on their official websites. Areas include Shibuya, Takeo, Ginza, Ikejiri-Ohashi, Nishi-Ogikubo, Nishiarai. Each page has photos, hours and how to get there, with the address in Japanese.
Nine sauna rooms, and a place to work
A bathhouse on the 4th floor of a Ginza building, made for looking inward
A sento's leftover space, turned into an open-air rest area
A car park turned into a half-outdoor rest area
A wide rooftop rest area and the shortest possible circuit
An 80-year-old sento updated for today
The “warm snow” baths of a Sapporo hotel
Hot spring and sauna surrounded by mountain nature
A hot-spring hotel sauna with a cold bath of Jozankei groundwater
A big three-tier sauna that holds 40
Three saunas and three cold baths
Three cold baths: 7 °C, 16 °C and 30 °C
A 100 °C “sky sauna” and open-air rest on the 12th floor
A löyly sauna that holds over 30
A löyly sauna at 80–90 °C
Two cold baths: river underflow and hot spring water
A public hot spring bath built around a wooden engawa
Outdoor baths with a “totonoi area”
A high-temperature sauna and a men's auto-löyly sauna
A junmai sake bath and a far-infrared tower sauna
Bazooka löyly and an ultra-cold bath under 10 °C
A bazooka sauna and a forest cold bath
A Medi Sauna and an aroma salt sauna
A meditation sauna and a kampo herbal salt sauna
A self-löyly meditation sauna and a kampo sauna
An auto-löyly sauna and a meditation sauna
Saunas of five moods and a totonoi deck
A sauna, two cold baths and a totonoi space
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 barrel sauna with a view of Ashibetsu and a sulphur-scented spring-water cold bath
Auto-löyly every hour and open-air rest facing Lake Biwa
Three saunas and an outdoor deck in the wind from the Suzuka mountains
Auto-löyly and a totonoi area where you feel the breeze
A Kumamoto private sauna themed on the phases of the moon
Five saunas, a 10 °C cold bath and a 5 m pool
Private saunas on three floors, wrapped in herbal steam
A private wood-fired sauna in the heart of Asakusa
Wood, metal and fire saunas in a forest, named after the five elements
A lava sauna and a meditation sauna of sound, on a hotel's 9th floor
An 8th-floor outdoor bath and an auto-löyly tower sauna
Auto-löyly twice an hour and black spring water outdoors
An auto-löyly sauna walled with bakuhan stone and a 13 °C big cold bath
A cave sauna of lava tile and a round, cocoon-like sauna
A foot bath 105 m above ground, and a five-tier hot sauna
A 95 °C dry sauna, and a cold bath of natural hot spring water at 17 °C
