JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNASSaunas
All 194 saunas
Every sauna here was chosen for its design. Filter by area, or by what matters on a short trip: open all night, a place to rest outdoors, a natural hot spring, a private room you can book, or a place men and women can go in together.
An outdoor stone bath, a loess sauna and a salt sauna
Yugawara hot spring water outdoors, and auto löyly every hour on the hour
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
Hot spring water trucked in from Yugawara, and a hot sauna with löyly every day
A theatre-style far-infrared sauna and Shigaraki-ware jar baths
A low-temperature löyly sauna and a cave salt sauna
A steam kiln you lie down in, and a far-infrared sauna
A far-infrared sauna and free-flowing black spring water
Auto-löyly twice an hour and black spring water outdoors
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
An Aomori hiba tub and a far-infrared tower sauna
A 45–47 °C kamaburo and a far-infrared tower sauna
An outdoor rock bath and an infrared sauna
A 900 mm-deep super jet bath and a far-infrared tower sauna
A storehouse sauna with a TV, and a steam sauna
Natural hot spring rock and hinoki baths, and a tower sauna with hot and cooler zones
Auto-löyly every 30 minutes and a high-concentration carbonated spring
An 8th-floor outdoor bath and an auto-löyly tower sauna
A double-stove sauna (iki and Bona) and a mugwort steam sauna
A men-only sauna with views, on the 10th and 11th floors
Five saunas, a 10 °C cold bath and a 5 m pool
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 sauna and inn in Yokohama Chinatown, inspired by the port's red brick
A private wood-fired sauna in the heart of Asakusa
A 24-hour urban spa with a cold bath 163 cm deep
A sauna under a roof inspired by cap clouds, looking at Mt Fuji and the lake
A private sauna that keeps the family farmhouse just as it was
A stepped sauna and a loft sauna of Mie hinoki
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
A private sauna in a small alley townhouse, finished like a burrow
“Sea” and “Sky” saunas facing the Sea of Japan, in a Taisho-era annexe
A hot spring sento running since the Taisho era, renovated to open onto the street
Designed by Shigeru Ban: a hot spring with a 100 m walking bath and a sauna
A city-centre ryokan's baths and saunas, with Karurusu Onsen water
“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 Bonasauna, löyly and the raised “Takami no Yu”
A Mt Fuji mural and a bathroom of pale blue tile
A Misawa hot spring sento with a wooden ceiling and hot spring tubs
A bath you walk through, and tubs you enter without stepping over
An enzyme bath in black and white, wrapped in hinoki sawdust
A winery spa with a lounge of books and wine
“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
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
Moon, ice, El Dorado, sky — seven private rooms of nature
Sauna as art, themed on “imaginary dwellings”
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
A bath like a public bathhouse, joined to the guest room's living room
A sauna that frames the mountains, and a tiled steam sauna
Auto-löyly and a totonoi area where you feel the breeze
A far-infrared high-temperature sauna and a salt sauna that sprays mist
A wooden sauna with a window and an outdoor bath facing Tokyo Bay
A brick-and-wood sauna and outdoor baths at the foot of Mt Takao
Yuzu, plum and herbs — three saunas using local specialities
A cave-like sauna and a well-water cold bath
A high-temperature sauna and a Japanese-style self-löyly sauna
A private sauna in Ryogoku, wrapped in mist
A sauna for “rest and recovery in the city”, in a complex linked to the station
A löyly heat-wave sauna for women and Chiba city's only hydrogen bath
A tower sauna and a free-flowing rock bath
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 steam room of wooden tiers and two kinds of hot spring
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
Four wood-fired outdoor saunas by a clear stream
A far-infrared sauna and a free-flowing outdoor rock bath
An automatic-löyly sauna and salt saunas for men and women
A far-infrared tower sauna and a women's salt sauna
A hot sauna, a salt sauna and an outdoor bath with a view of Mt Fuji
Auto-löyly for men and women, and a salt sauna
An outdoor bath with a sea view, and auto-löyly
An aroma löyly sauna and an outdoor bath facing the woods
An 85 °C high-temperature sauna and a 68 °C salt sauna
An aroma löyly sauna and a wooden outdoor bath
A löyly sauna and free-flowing spring water
A sauna with auto-löyly and a far-infrared high-temperature sauna
A public hot spring bath built around a wooden engawa
A hot spring sento with nothing added — no water, no heating
A “terrarium sento” with a big aquarium and greenery
Modern Japanese, with just a touch of the exotic
A weakly acidic sulphur bath and a boat-shaped “silk tub”
A natural hot spring, a carbonated bath and a silk bath
An outdoor rock bath of natural hot spring, and an auto-löyly sauna
Natural hot spring × carbonated spring: the “golden carbonated spring”
Black natural hot spring in five tubs
“Fujimi no Yu”, a natural hot spring looking towards Mt Fuji
An outdoor cold bath and a kiln steam sauna
A natural hot spring carbonated bath and a bench bath
Outdoor baths with a “totonoi area”
A weakly acidic sulphur bath and a silk tub
A hollowed-out natural hot spring tub and a carbonated hinoki bath
An Aomori hiba tub and a far-infrared tower sauna
A cave bath, a far-infrared sauna and a steam sauna
Three saunas: Tarujobo, Enjobo and Kōonbo
Free-flowing natural hot spring and a far-infrared tower sauna
A high-temperature sauna and a men's auto-löyly sauna
A sauna, and a salt sauna for women
A storehouse bath, a far-infrared sauna and a steam sauna
A junmai sake bath and a far-infrared tower sauna
A far-infrared tower sauna and a binchotan cold bath
The “Akazonae” löyly sauna and a herbal steam sauna
Bazooka löyly and an ultra-cold bath under 10 °C
A loess sauna and a natural hot spring rock bath
A 14-barrel bazooka sauna and a Fuji-view rock bath
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
A tall-tiered sauna and an outdoor rock 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 tall-tiered sauna and free-flowing source water
A sauna on the 5th floor of a station building, and an outdoor bath under the sky
A scorching sauna and a black hot spring carbonated bath
A sauna of wooden tiers and a binchotan cold bath
Saunas of five moods and a totonoi deck
A dim sauna and a hot spring cold bath
A löyly sauna and a sauna with three air vents
A tower sauna and a men's meditation bath
A sauna with automatic löyly
A tower sauna and different steam baths for men and women
An auto-löyly sauna and steam baths for men and women
A sauna, two cold baths and a totonoi space
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
The “warm snow” baths of a Sapporo hotel
Hot spring and sauna surrounded by mountain nature
Five sauna huts by a lake
Three private saunas in an art hotel
Private modern-Japanese saunas themed on the moon
A Morioka bathhouse that combines spa and sento
A tiny sauna with a kelo-wood sauna room
A tea-room sauna in a Kyoto townhouse
A Finnish hut standing inside the bathroom
A kelo-wood hut and a marble hammam
Seven private saunas, seven different worlds
A meditation sauna with a single shaft of light, and Kumamoto groundwater
Four sauna rooms: rock, kelo, steam and wood-fired
A 14th-floor sauna linked directly to Yokohama Station
“Bazooka löyly” every 30 minutes
A 24-hour hot spring and sauna in Kabukicho
A hot-spring hotel sauna with a cold bath of Jozankei groundwater
A moor hot spring, and a sauna walled with birch rounds
A one-person private sauna linked directly to the station
A big three-tier sauna that holds 40
A hot spring with a meditation sauna and a barrel sauna
Three saunas and three cold baths
Three cold baths: 7 °C, 16 °C and 30 °C
A “beauty light sauna” whose light changes colour
A meditation sauna where you press a button for steam
The first auto-löyly sauna in Yunokawa Onsen
Hot spring and sauna on an island by the sea
A Kagawa bathhouse with new saunas for men and women
A 100 °C “sky sauna” and open-air rest on the 12th floor
A golden hot spring and a dry sauna with löyly
Yuragi, Homura, Mushin, Kagero — named sauna rooms
A sauna with auto-löyly every 20 minutes
A löyly sauna that holds over 30
A five-sided barrel sauna
Engan, Nen'en, Kirameki — löyly saunas with names
A hotel with a sauna and cold bath in every room
A löyly sauna at 80–90 °C
Two cold baths: river underflow and hot spring water
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
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