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What is “kelo” wood in a sauna?
It is a wood favoured in Finland as a sauna material. Some facilities have finished sauna rooms and huts with kelo imported as whole logs or with old kelo wood.
Kelo imported as whole logs
The “Kelo Sauna” at Sauna Tokyo uses kelo, favoured in Finland as a sauna material, imported as whole logs.
It is a room where you can do löyly — pouring water on the stones — with your own hands.
The “kelo patch” of old kelo wood
The second sauna room at SAUNA., the “Kelo Patch”, uses old kelo, a top-grade sauna wood.
It is a room with self-löyly.
A sauna hut recreated in kelo
Kobe Sauna & Spa brought kelo wood from Finland to recreate an authentic sauna hut.
You can do self-löyly in this hut too.
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A kelo sauna at about 90 °C
The kelo sauna at Karumaru Ikebukuro is about 90 °C and holds about nine people.
You can do self-löyly, pouring water on the sauna stones yourself.
What is kelo?
A wood favoured in Finland as a sauna material.
Facilities in Japan import whole logs or old kelo wood and use it for the walls and benches of sauna rooms.
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