Wellbe Imaike

Wellbe Imaike is a men-only sauna and capsule hotel a short walk from Imaike Station in Nagoya's Chikusa Ward. The open-air bath, Kasumi-no-yu (霞の湯), is piped straight from the Ikeda Sakura Onsen source, a real hot spring, and spreads across a rock bath, a one-person tsubo-yu (つぼ湯) jar tub, and a lie-down bath. Indoors there is a separate seasonal bath, Shiki-no-yu (四季の湯), whose water changes through the year. Saunas come in several forms: a Finnish sauna, a forest sauna with its own cold plunge built into the room, and karafuro (からふろ), a tiny tatami-floored single-person steam room for pouring your own loyly in near-total quiet. Scheduled aufguss sessions and sauna yoga classes run through the week. There is a restaurant serving Nagoya specialties, plus a manga corner and lounge to wind down in. The building has grown through decades of additions and feels a bit like a maze inside, but people keep coming back for the range of baths and saunas packed under one roof.