This time I’m introducing GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Stay, a dedicated premium sauna with cabin-stay rooms in Yonago, Tottori, about an 8-minute walk from Fujimi-cho Station.
With a spacious high-heat sauna, a dedicated low-temperature, low-airflow cool-down room, and cabins with a workspace, it’s a one-of-a-kind urban oasis for the San’in region.
Joe, a hot-spring and sauna enthusiast, visited during a trip to Tottori — so in this post I’ll share what GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Stay is like, along with how crowded it gets!
GOOD BLESS GARDEN: The Basics
GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Spa opened in November 2019 on the former site of the Takashimakan East building — an urban oasis in the middle of Yonago.
The building has 7 floors total: the 1st floor is dining, the 2nd a training gym, the 3rd and 4th a manga museum, and the 5th through 7th floors are the stay cabins, sauna, and large communal bath — GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Spa refers to that entire 5th–7th floor section.
The 5th floor houses the main front desk and the men’s stay rooms, the 6th floor has dining, a rest area, and the women’s stay rooms, and the 7th floor has the sauna and large communal bath.
Even though it’s a stay facility, the men’s and women’s floors are physically separated, and a guest-only key is required to enter — tight security that makes it comfortable even for women traveling solo.
Location
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Stay |
| Address | 5F GOOD BLESS GARDEN, 1-27-2 Kakuban-cho, Yonago, Tottori 683-0812 |
| Phone | 0859-22-7111 |
| Hours | 10:00–25:00 (last entry 24:00), open year-round |
Facility Info
Here’s a quick rundown of what each area at GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Stay offers:
Men’s Area
- Sauna: large dry sauna at roughly 100°C, with auto-löyly at 20 and 50 minutes past the hour, two iki stoves.
- A solo sauna space at roughly 90°C, self-löyly, vihta (birch whisks) available, for a focused experience.
- Cold bath: 15.5–17°C.
- A dedicated cool-down room, plus an outdoor air-bathing area.
Baths & Facilities (shared)
- A large hot bath that fits around 40 people, jet bath, and waterfall shower.
- Cool-down room with air conditioning and fans.
- Outdoor air-bathing terrace.
Women’s Area
- Women’s sauna at roughly 80°C with auto-löyly, kept impeccably clean.
- Jjimjilbang-style rock-bed sauna at 45–50°C, medicinal-stone rock bed, löyly room, and a dedicated cool-down room.
- High-concentration carbonated bath for skin health and circulation, plus nano-bubble shower.
- A full-fledged automated-löyly sauna, a dedicated women’s rock-bed sauna area, and a high-quality powder room.
The building is a total-care complex — with 10,000 manga volumes and a café, plus a manga area on the 3rd floor, a library on the 4th, and a restaurant on the 7th, it’s the kind of place you could spend the whole day. The open, airy space (built in the former Yonago Takashimaya building) is part of the appeal. Amenities and a water cooler are provided, there’s affiliated parking, and stay cabins are available on-site.
Touring the Facility
Let’s head straight into GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Spa.
First, walk into the GOOD BLESS GARDEN building and look for the elevator toward the back of the entrance. Houseplants placed throughout the space give it that oasis feel.
The posters scattered around are hard to miss, but the brown-and-black color scheme keeps things feeling calm and sophisticated. Take the elevator up to the 5th-floor main front desk.
Front Desk
Walk in through the 5th-floor entrance, leave your shoes in the shoe locker facing you, and check in at the desk right beside it.
Unfortunately the stay cabins were already fully booked, so this visit was sauna and bath only. I got a wristband locker key and headed up to the 7th floor. Razors are provided, but toothbrushes are reserved for overnight guests only and aren’t given out for free otherwise.
Next to the front desk is a shampoo bar along with a small shop selling snacks and instant noodles — prices aren’t too steep.
As directed, I headed to the sauna and large bath on the 7th floor, reachable by elevator or stairs.
There’s a bath curtain labeled “large bath and sauna” right by the 7th-floor elevator — time to get steamed in the sauna.
The lockers are a standard design, opened and closed with a key turn rather than a touch mechanism. Small, cheerful yellow stools are scattered here and there.
The lockers run fairly narrow — a suitcase definitely won’t fit, and even a travel backpack might be a squeeze. No in-house slippers are provided.
Large Communal Bath
The large bath has one cold bath next to the sauna and one larger hot tub. The hot tub runs warm — probably close to 42°C.
The washing-area shower heads are Mirable and ReFa models that produce a fine, gentle mist — a nice plus for women too. The only downside is the stools are a bit small, so you can’t sit fully comfortably.
Sauna
Walk in and two iki sauna stoves greet you straight ahead, with auto-löyly units visible above. Both auto-löyly units trigger roughly every 20 minutes.
There’s a self-löyly bucket and a large ladle next to the stoves, but hardly anyone reaches for it — most people seem perfectly satisfied with the room’s temperature as it is.
The sauna room has an L-shaped, three-tier layout, with each tier wide enough to comfortably sit cross-legged. It could easily fit 20 people.
There’s a large TV over 50 inches with sound playing at the front, a 12-minute timer below it, and a thermometer at the back reading around 110°C. With the humidity factored in, it runs quite hot — hot enough that, unusually, people tend to cluster on the lower tier.
Sauna mats are kept by the bath curtain — just grab whichever color you like. There’s no wall-mounted sauna-hat rack, but a wooden pole hanger sits in front of the sauna where you can hang your hat.
This is one of the hottest saunas in the country, so if you love an intense, humid heat, this one might be right up your alley!
Cold Bath
There’s no thermometer for the cold bath, but it feels like around 17°C. There’s a single step down, and while that’s usually plenty cold, given how hot the sauna runs it can feel a bit underwhelming — and a wait for the cold bath does happen. It’s a non-jetted cold bath, 80cm deep, right next to the sauna.
Cool-Down Room
After the sauna comes rest. The cold bath alone gives a satisfying chill, but I’d recommend the separate cool-down room instead. (Men only.)
Slide the door open and step inside.
A single air conditioner and an oscillating fan create a low-temperature, low-humidity, gentle breeze — exactly what you’d want. The lighting is dim, with looping healing music of crickets on an autumn night. Absolutely perfect.
Even though it’s an artificial version of outdoor air bathing, I was genuinely impressed they could create a room this good.
Rock-Bed Sauna
There’s a rock-bed sauna corner in the middle of the 2nd floor. It costs extra — 450 yen for adults, robe included.
It uses medicinal jade stone, germanium ore, and tourmaline rock beds, set at around 60°C.
Dining Area
Once you’ve thoroughly sauna’d and cold-plunged, head up to the dining area on the 6th floor.
The dining area splits into tatami seating, which has a shelf of about 2,000 manga volumes, and regular table seating.
Later in the evening, you’ll see a fair number of people lying around without ordering any food.
The tables toward the back range from 2-person to 4-person sizes. There’s also a vending machine for instant noodles.
If you’re hungry after the sauna and want something cheap, instant noodles aren’t a bad call — hot water is available right next door.
Order drinks and food yourself at the self-service counter with the Kirin Ichiban poster. After ordering, you’ll get a number tag and go pick up your order when called.
This is one area where the service could be a bit better.
The food menu leans hearty, true to sauna food, and is clearly aimed at men. The hormone (offal) rice bowl and katsu curry napolitan are unusual dishes you won’t find many other places.
After going back and forth, I ordered a hamburger steak set meal for the first time in a while — it came with salad, fries, corn, hijiki seaweed, pickles, rice, and miso soup.
It tasted like a thawed frozen patty, nothing special, but for 1,000 yen it felt like a fair deal.
Rice refills, by the way, are free.
Lounge
At the very back is a space with reclining chairs and a work area. Outlets and blankets are provided.
Each reclining chair has one USB port, handy for charging your phone in a pinch.
Plenty of people were also reading manga they’d grabbed from the manga corner.
Massage Salon
On the same floor as the dining area and lounge, there’s a small massage salon.
The menu includes relaxation massage, aroma lymphatic treatment, foot reflexology, head reflexology, and facials, available in sessions as short as 20 minutes.
My feet were tired from all the walking during the trip, so I had a 40-minute foot reflexology session for 4,400 yen.
The therapist was a woman who kept a friendly, light conversation going and applied firm, satisfying pressure. Very happy with it.
How Crowded Does It Get?
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Stay the best in Tottori, with its spacious, blazing-hot sauna, dedicated cool-down space, and private stay cabins.
Naturally, you’ll want to know how crowded it gets.
Hearing “best in Tottori” might make you want to travel in from out of prefecture, but nobody wants to show up only to find it too crowded to properly enjoy.
So what days and times does GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Stay tend to get busy?
It tends to get busiest on weekends and holidays, in the evening through nighttime, but the crowding is mostly limited to the sauna itself — every other facility and service stays comfortable and stress-free.
I actually visited in the early evening right in the middle of Golden Week, and moving to the large bath and sauna was smooth and easy.
Thanks to the buzz around the iki sauna with auto-löyly and its high heat, the sauna did draw a crowd — but even then it was only around 60% full, leaving plenty of room.
Past 11 PM, I expected it to thin out, but with overnight guests and locals still coming in, it stayed at about the same usage level.
Since it’s such a high-heat sauna, sessions naturally run shorter, so turnover is relatively quick!
Pricing
With a hot, spacious sauna and a dedicated cool-down space, GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Stay is pretty much guaranteed to get you to that “totonou” state.
Naturally you’ll want to know the pricing.
At a Tokyo super sento with a loungewear set included, entry typically runs about 1,500–2,000 yen.
At a full-service spa facility with a comfortable lounge and workspace, it climbs even higher, to around 2,500–3,500 yen.
Here’s GOOD BLESS GARDEN’s pricing structure:
| Type | Adult (jr. high+) | Child (elementary & under) |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly membership | 13,000 yen | — |
| Bathing fee | 990 yen | 550 yen |
| 12-visit bathing ticket | 9,500 yen | — |
| Including rock-bed sauna | 2,000 yen (1,000 yen for overnight guests, 500 yen for GBA members) | — |
Getting into a facility this good for under 1,000 yen is a steal, even accounting for regional pricing. There’s also no 3-hour or 5-hour time limit.
The monthly membership runs 13,000 yen but includes a bath towel and loungewear — if you live near Yonago, you could basically skip your home bath entirely. Honestly a little jealous.
Towels cost extra, so plenty of people bring their own, and I also noticed some guests relaxing in their own sweats instead of the loungewear.
| Rental Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Bath towel | 200 yen |
| Loungewear | 200 yen |
| Set (towel + loungewear) | 300 yen |
Are There Any Coupons?
I looked into coupons for GOOD BLESS GARDEN Sauna & Stay, but as of May 2022, unfortunately there weren’t any.
That said, they occasionally run surprise discounts, mostly on weekdays, through their website — worth checking in on regularly.
I’ll update this post if a new coupon becomes available.
It’s not a coupon exactly, but if you’re able to make a furusato nozei (hometown tax) donation, you can get two stay tickets — a great deal!
My Honest Impressions
I came here on a sauna pilgrimage, and while the Yonago, Tottori location is a bit out of the way, it’s cheap and absolutely fantastic!!
I was a little cautious going in, but after the sauna → cold bath → indoor air-bathing cycle with the healing music playing, my mind and body felt more relaxed than usual — it’s honestly addictive.
I don’t think there’s another facility in the San’in region built this specifically for sauna lovers, so I’d expect it to keep growing in popularity through word of mouth.
If you’re ever in Tottori for work or travel, give it a try at least once. You’ll be blown away by how powerful the sauna is.
GOOD BLESS GARDEN is one of the most dedicated sauna facilities I’ve found in the San’in region — well worth the trip if you’re ever in Tottori!
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About the author
Joe
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