JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNAS
Introduction
A true outdoor sauna, in Japan
The Sauna grew from the wish to spread in Japan the kind of outdoor sauna experienced in Finland, the home of sauna.
With help from the LAMP Nojiriko team and people around them, the first hut was built by hand, and huts have been added little by little since.
01 · Yksi
The sauna hut where it began
Hut No. 1, “Yksi”, is the first sauna hut, built with imagination and passion.
A commanding wood stove is the heart of this sauna.
02 · Kaksi
A two-storey sauna
Hut No. 2, “Kaksi”, was built by the staff in 2020.
It is an unusual two-storey sauna.
03 · Kolme and Neljä
Twin saunas booked for three hours
Hut No. 3, “Kolme”, and Hut No. 4, “Neljä”, are twin saunas booked privately for three hours.
Kolme has its own cold bath of pumped groundwater clean enough to drink; Neljä's bench is a single large slab of reclaimed timber.
04 · Viisi
The fifth hut, full of know-how
Hut No. 5, “Viisi”, is packed with everything learned from building the saunas before it.
It comes even closer to a Finnish sauna.
What is an outdoor sauna?
A sauna in a hut or tent set up in nature rather than inside a building.
At The Sauna, five sauna huts stand near Lake Nojiri.
