JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNAS53 saunas
Beautifully designed saunas in Tokyo
53 saunas in Tokyo, chosen for their design. Areas include Akasaka, Ryogoku, Kanda, Shibuya, Ginza, Ikejiri-Ohashi. 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”
Forest, pond and tub — sauna as a place to experiment
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
From changing to resting, all in one private room
A “totonou” spa inside a park
A wide rooftop rest area and the shortest possible circuit
A private sauna of sound and scent
A “travel-mood sento” that keeps its Showa-era tile pictures
An 80-year-old sento updated for today
A noren-like facade, and baths floating among clouds
Four sauna rooms: rock, kelo, steam and wood-fired
A 24-hour hot spring and sauna in Kabukicho
A 100 °C “sky sauna” and open-air rest on the 12th floor
Yuragi, Homura, Mushin, Kagero — named sauna rooms
A “terrarium sento” with a big aquarium and greenery
Modern Japanese, with just a touch of the exotic
Natural hot spring × carbonated spring: the “golden carbonated spring”
A bazooka sauna and a forest cold bath
Saunas of four moods, open until morning
A red-walled sauna and an outdoor carbonated spring
King's Sauna, a coral steam bath and four hot-stone rooms
A tower sauna and a men's meditation bath
A hot sauna, a salt sauna and an outdoor bath with a view of Mt Fuji
A brick-and-wood sauna and outdoor baths at the foot of Mt Takao
A private sauna in Ryogoku, wrapped in mist
A sauna for “rest and recovery in the city”, in a complex linked to the station
Six rooms, six moods — KUDOCHI's first branch
Dive through the cold bath to step outside the room
Six private rooms inspired by a Persian mosque
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 bath like a public bathhouse, joined to the guest room's living room
A Mt Fuji mural and a bathroom of pale blue tile
A bath you walk through, and tubs you enter without stepping over
“Miyabi” and “Akatsuki” — two Japanese-themed VIP rooms
A sauna and shower rooms in a cave-like basement
Beige capsules and a Finnish-style sauna
A men-only sauna with views, on the 10th and 11th floors
Private saunas on three floors, wrapped in herbal steam
A Japanese sauna like a mountain-village inn, with AI-controlled löyly
A 150-year-old farmhouse and an earthbag sauna built of soil
A dim private sauna where you make löyly with aroma or tea
A private wood-fired sauna in the heart of Asakusa
A 24-hour urban spa with a cold bath 163 cm deep
A double-stove sauna (iki and Bona) and a mugwort steam sauna
A city sento with a far-infrared sauna and a carbonated bath
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 mugwort steam salt sauna and a big outdoor bath with a view of Skytree
Hot spring water trucked in from Yugawara, and a hot sauna with löyly every day
