JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED SAUNAS
© Kentaro Imai Architects (Sauna Tokyo)Japan's best-designed saunas
194 saunas chosen for their design, from neighbourhood sentō rebuilt for the sauna to hot spring resorts and private rooms in Kyoto machiya. Every fact comes from the official website.
In Japan for a few days?
Find a sauna that fits your trip — open all night after a late flight, a place to rest outdoors, a natural hot spring, a private room for your group. These labels come only from what each official website says. New to Japanese baths? Read how to use a sauna in Japan first.
Featured saunas
Places whose design is the reason to go
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
Collections
Saunas grouped by trip and by theme
9 saunas
Saunas near Asakusa, Skytree and Ryogoku
Asakusa, Kuramae, Oshiage, Ryogoku and Kinshicho lie along the Sumida River in east Tokyo. Saunas to fit…
10 saunas
Saunas near Shibuya, Harajuku and Shinjuku
West Tokyo's busiest districts, and the quieter neighbourhoods a few stops away. From a 24-hour hot spring in…
6 saunas
Saunas near Ginza, Nihonbashi and Kanda
Central Tokyo, around Ginza and the business districts near Tokyo Station. Saunas for the evening after…
6 saunas
Saunas in Roppongi and Akasaka
Akasaka, Roppongi and Nishi-Azabu, home to hotels, embassies and museums. Design-led saunas, private rooms…
9 saunas
Saunas for a trip to Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe
Kyoto townhouses, Osaka's Shinsaibashi and Tenma, Kobe's Sannomiya and Harborland. Saunas to fit into a…
13 saunas
Sentō: Japan's neighbourhood bathhouses, with a sauna
A sentō is a public bathhouse for the neighbourhood. These sentō have saunas, and many keep their old…
New on SAUNAMILL
The latest saunas we have added
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
How to read this site
Three things we do on every page
Each page follows the sauna in the order you would go round it: the entrance, the sauna rooms, the cold bath, the place to rest outdoors.
Each page shows the address in Japanese — e.g. 東京都港区赤坂3-13-4 — with directions by train, a copy button and a large view to show a taxi driver.
Hours, temperatures and designers come from official websites and architects' pages. If something is not published — tattoo rules, for example — we say so instead of guessing.
