JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNAS35 saunas
Saunas with self-löyly in Japan
35 saunas in Japan where you can pour water on the stones yourself. Areas include Akasaka, Maebashi, Sakae, Sannomiya, Ikebukuro, Yokohama. Each page has photos, hours and how to get there, with the address in Japanese.
Six styles of sauna gathered under the idea of a “Japanese-style sauna”
Three private saunas in an art hotel
A tiny sauna with a kelo-wood sauna room
A kelo-wood hut and a marble hammam
Four sauna rooms: rock, kelo, steam and wood-fired
A 14th-floor sauna linked directly to Yokohama Station
“Bazooka löyly” every 30 minutes
A hot-spring hotel sauna with a cold bath of Jozankei groundwater
A hot spring with a meditation sauna and a barrel sauna
Three saunas and three cold baths
A “beauty light sauna” whose light changes colour
A Kagawa bathhouse with new saunas for men and women
A 100 °C “sky sauna” and open-air rest on the 12th floor
Yuragi, Homura, Mushin, Kagero — named sauna rooms
A five-sided barrel sauna
Two cold baths: river underflow and hot spring water
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
A cave-like sauna and a well-water cold bath
A high-temperature sauna and a Japanese-style self-löyly sauna
Six rooms, six moods — KUDOCHI's first branch
Bathe in hot spring water that changes with the season, in a cave-like private room
The sauna as a tea room — SAUNA OOO's first branch
A Kumamoto private sauna themed on the phases of the moon
A grown-up hideaway private sauna on the 8th floor of an Odori building
Five saunas, a 10 °C cold bath and a 5 m pool
A Japanese sauna like a mountain-village inn, with AI-controlled löyly
A dim private sauna where you make löyly with aroma or tea
A sauna and inn in Yokohama Chinatown, inspired by the port's red brick
A sauna under a roof inspired by cap clouds, looking at Mt Fuji and the lake
A stepped sauna and a loft sauna of Mie hinoki
A lava sauna and a meditation sauna of sound, on a hotel's 9th floor
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
