Dansetsu Sapporo (baths and sauna) — cool yet warm, a hotel's large bath and sauna

Introduction

Cool, yet warm

The hotel's name, “warm snow”, is also the design idea of the baths: the anticipation, vitality and beauty of the season when Hokkaido's winter turns to spring.

Two more themes were added — “feeling like Hokkaido” and “a hotel you want to come back to” — and the space was built on all three.

01 · Large bath

A bath that feels like Hokkaido's nature

The large bath, designed by Kentaro Imai, lets you feel Hokkaido's nature.

02 · Sauna

A stove enclosed in stone

The sauna room is about 80 °C, a Finnish sauna with auto-löyly.

The stove is enclosed in peridotite from Hidaka, Hokkaido.

03 · Cold bath

Charcoal walls and a 60 cm-deep cold bath

The cold bath is about 18 °C and 60 cm deep.

Charcoal in the walls raises the water's purity, and water flows quietly down the wall into the bath.

04 · Outdoor rest

Outside air through gaps in the boarded wall

The outdoor rest area draws in outside air through gaps in a boarded wall.

The chairs were devised by Dai Matsuo, with the headrest at 115 degrees.