JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNAS24 saunas
Sauna hotels and inns in Japan
24 saunas in Japan at hotels and inns where you can stay the night. Areas include Sapporo, Takeo, Maebashi, Ikebukuro, Jozankei, Obihiro. Each page has photos, hours and how to get there, with the address in Japanese.
The “warm snow” baths of a Sapporo hotel
Hot spring and sauna surrounded by mountain nature
Three private saunas in an art hotel
Four sauna rooms: rock, kelo, steam and wood-fired
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
Hot spring and sauna on an island by the sea
A hotel with a sauna and cold bath in every room
Two cold baths: river underflow and hot spring water
A barrel sauna with a view of Ashibetsu and a sulphur-scented spring-water cold bath
Three saunas and an outdoor deck in the wind from the Suzuka mountains
Yuzu, plum and herbs — three saunas using local specialities
A bath like a public bathhouse, joined to the guest room's living room
A sauna and shower rooms in a cave-like basement
Beige capsules and a Finnish-style sauna
“Sauna Theater Nagoya” for about 70, and the women-only Forest House
“Kasumi no Yu” with water from Ikeda Sakura Onsen, and a forest sauna
A Finnish sauna with a HARVIA stove, and an ice sauna
A 150-year-old farmhouse and an earthbag sauna built of soil
A sauna and inn in Yokohama Chinatown, inspired by the port's red brick
A lava sauna and a meditation sauna of sound, on a hotel's 9th floor
“Sea” and “Sky” saunas facing the Sea of Japan, in a Taisho-era annexe
A city-centre ryokan's baths and saunas, with Karurusu Onsen water
