Sessions and rituals
The soaks
Three ways to take the water. Towels, a robe and tea room time come with every one.
Bathhouse sessions
The communal room and the private tubs.
The Sento Circuit
$5890 minutes, per person
The communal main room. Move between the hot cedar tub, the cool plunge and the rest bench, as many rounds as you like.
Private Cedar Room
$14575 minutes, for one or two
A small room with its own tub, drawn fresh for every booking. The quiet kept to yourselves.
Twilight Soak
$6490 minutes, from 8pm
The last session of the night. Lamps low, the plunge coldest, the house at its stillest.
Foot rituals
For legs that have done the day's work.
Foot Soak + Press
$7245 minutes, per person
A hot mineral bath for tired legs, warm towels, then a firm pressure point press from ankle to toe.
The Long Walk
$9660 minutes, per person
For runners and trampers. A cold to warm foot cycle, then deep calf and sole work.
Paired Foot Ritual
$13045 minutes, for two
Two chairs side by side in the foot room. The soak and the press, shared.
Add to any soak
Small extras that stretch the calm.
An extra tea room hour
$1860 minutes
Stay on after your soak with a second pot of genmaicha and no reason to leave.
Warm stone back rest
$2815 minutes
Heated river stones laid along the back while you rest between rounds.
Mineral salt scrub
$3420 minutes
A coarse salt polish at the wash stools before you step into the tub.
All prices in New Zealand dollars.
The ritual
How a soak unfolds
No schedule to keep. This is only the shape most sessions take, from the wash stools to the last cup of tea.
Four quiet steps.
Rinse first
Seated at the wash stools, warm water and soap before any tub. It is how the water stays clean for everyone.
Soak, then cool
Into the cedar tub at forty degrees. Sit until the heat reaches your shoulders, then cool at the plunge. Repeat as you like.
Rest
On the bench, or under a blanket in the quiet room. The heat keeps working long after you leave the water.
Stay for tea
Genmaicha in the tea room, for as long as the afternoon allows. Most people leave slower than they arrived.
Before you soak
Four small customs, borrowed from the sento. They keep the water clean and the rooms calm.
Rinse first
Wash at the shower stools before entering any tub, the sento way. The water stays clean for everyone after you.
Phones stay in lockers
Leave yours in the changing room. An hour out of reach is part of the treatment.
Voices stay low
Soft conversation belongs in the tea room. The soak rooms sit close to silence, even outside silent hours.
Arrive ten minutes early
It leaves time to rinse, change and settle in, so your soak starts calm instead of hurried.
