Swimming pool saunas in Osaka, Japan
うめきた温泉 蓮 Wellbeing Park
Umekita Onsen Ren is a 24-hour wellness park in Grand Green Osaka, north of Osaka station, certified by the health ministry as a health-promotion facility. Men have a large sauna with auto and self löyly and auto Aufguss; women have a Finnish dry sauna and an aroma moisture sauna. Cold baths are kept near 28°C under medical advice. There are indoor and outdoor pools with a tent sauna, bedrock baths, a gym and private bath-and-sauna rooms. Entry from ¥3,190 on weekdays; age 12 and up.
ニュージャパン梅田店
New Japan Umeda is a men-only sauna, spa and capsule hotel in Doyama-cho, open around the clock except Monday mornings from 8:00 to 12:00. Its saunas are a low-temperature room with a starry ceiling, a high-temperature room with auto-löyly every 30 minutes, a mist sauna, a second-floor post-bath sauna and a Finnish sauna on the open-air third floor. There is also a heated swimming pool, a cypress bath and a barrel cold bath. One hour costs ¥1,900; the full spa ¥2,700, ¥3,000 at weekends.
SPAWORLD HOTEL&RESORT
SPAWORLD is a large hot-spring complex beside Tsutenkaku, with a European zone and an Asian zone that swap between men and women each month. Saunas include a sauna theatre for 140 with Aufguss shows, a tea sauna with hojicha löyly, a dry laconicum, a Finnish sauna house, a hinoki sauna, a salt sauna and a herbal steam room; cooling includes a golden cold bath. A pool with slides, a private family bath with its own sauna and a hotel are on site. Entry from ¥1,500; baths open 10:00 to 8:45.
うめきた温泉 蓮 Wellbeing Park
Umekita Onsen Ren is a 24-hour wellness park in Grand Green Osaka, north of Osaka station, certified by the health ministry as a health-promotion facility. Men have a large sauna with auto and self löyly and auto Aufguss; women have a Finnish dry sauna and an aroma moisture sauna. Cold baths are kept near 28°C under medical advice. There are indoor and outdoor pools with a tent sauna, bedrock baths, a gym and private bath-and-sauna rooms. Entry from ¥3,190 on weekdays; age 12 and up.
ニュージャパン梅田店
New Japan Umeda is a men-only sauna, spa and capsule hotel in Doyama-cho, open around the clock except Monday mornings from 8:00 to 12:00. Its saunas are a low-temperature room with a starry ceiling, a high-temperature room with auto-löyly every 30 minutes, a mist sauna, a second-floor post-bath sauna and a Finnish sauna on the open-air third floor. There is also a heated swimming pool, a cypress bath and a barrel cold bath. One hour costs ¥1,900; the full spa ¥2,700, ¥3,000 at weekends.
SPAWORLD HOTEL&RESORT
SPAWORLD is a large hot-spring complex beside Tsutenkaku, with a European zone and an Asian zone that swap between men and women each month. Saunas include a sauna theatre for 140 with Aufguss shows, a tea sauna with hojicha löyly, a dry laconicum, a Finnish sauna house, a hinoki sauna, a salt sauna and a herbal steam room; cooling includes a golden cold bath. A pool with slides, a private family bath with its own sauna and a hotel are on site. Entry from ¥1,500; baths open 10:00 to 8:45.