Top 6 Korean Spas In Palo Alto, California

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In today’s challenging and demanding world, the need to de-stress, detoxify, and rejuvenate your mind and body has never been as essential. Palo Alto, a busy city with many giant high-tech companies also houses some of the finest Korean spas where you can relax and recover. Also known as jjimjilbang, a Korean spa has a large, multi-level bathhouse complete with therapeutic rooms such as the Himalayan salt sauna, steam room, herbal sauna, ice room, among others. You can choose to use any, or you can try them all. The holy grail of Korean spas is a powerful body scrub where you go totally naked, so prepare yourself for it. It may be shocking at first, but no worries, it is actually a worthwhile experience. So, pamper yourself now and check out our listings of the top Korean spas in Palo Alto, California.

1. Immersion Spa

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Have a glorious me-time at Immersion Spa. Located in Palo Alto, this Korean Spa boasts top-of-the-line amenities and world-class facilities that provide customers a luxuriously therapeutic experience. It perfectly fuses this time-honored ritual derived from ancient bathhouses and the elegance of a modern American spa called Aveda concept. Its services range from Korean body scrubbing, massages, and facials. Immersion Spa’s quiet yet sophisticated amenities include the Himalayan Salt Room for women, the Jade Block Room for men, Steam Sauna, Dry Sauna, Hot hot tub Pool, and Ice Plunge Pool. Since total nakedness is required to complete the experience, the spa is completely gender separated. It’s truly a great place where you, your family, and friends can relax.

Immersion Spa

Address: 3990 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States

Website: Immersion Spa

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1. Water Lounge Spa - San Mateo

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Established in 2011, Water Lounge Spa is a plush, spotless and cozy health and wellbeing center in San Mateo that provides all kinds of professional massage, facial, and several health treatments, including private hypnotherapy. It also offers unique services such as cupping (involves heated glass cups applied to the skin), hydrotherapy, and specialized massage therapies such as Hot Stone Massage, Pregnancy Massage, Pre & Postpartum/ Back Walking Massage/ and Thai Massage/Couple Massage. A visit to its facilities and the use of its services and treatments are sure to reduce stress, soothe muscle sores, improve sleep quality and blood circulation, and relieve tension to name a few.

Water Lounge Spa - San Mateo

Address: 2500 S El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94403, United States

Website: Water Lounge Spa

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2. Psy Spa

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An upscale health and fitness place, Psy Spa prides itself on being the Bay Area’s only co-ed Korean spa. With rooms made of granite, stonewalls, and old wood, the place breathes both elegance and warmth. Its spacious Jimjilbang – steamed quality room – and old wood sauna, is a knockout with its exquisite aesthetic and comforting atmosphere. Psy Spa adopted the concept of blending the look and feel of an ancient bathhouse and a modern spa and took it a notch higher by blending the best practices of a Korean spa with the finest modern treatments available under a single roof. It is one of the industry leaders, consciously transforming professional Korean spas from a luxury to a necessity. Its massage and spa services are performed by experts.

Psy Spa

Address: 14075 E 14th St, San Leandro, CA 94578, United States

Website: Psy Spa

Opening hours: Sat - Wed: 9am - 9pm (closed on Thu)

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3. Pearl Spa / Sauna

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Pearl Spa/Sauna is a Korean-style, women-only spa club with a classy interior and chic amenities. This elegant spa with marble and granite walls has well-lit rooms, a calm atmosphere, and pristine facilities. Its facilities include a hot jet hot tub, an elegant Himalayan salt room, and a charming dry sauna to name a few. Enhanced scrub treatments such as honey and milk (Pear Special) and seaweed body massage (Pearl Aveda Special) are some of the scrub treatments available. Massages such as acupressure, Shiatsu, or a combination of Swedish and Shiatsu massages are also some of the services clients can take advantage of at Pearl Spa/ Sauna.

Pearl Spa / Sauna

Address:1656 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94115, United States

Website: Pearl Spa / Sauna

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4. Imperial Day Spa

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Enticingly beautiful, Imperial Day Spa is a Korean-style communal bathhouse that offers massages and exfoliation scrubs for the whole body. This palace-like structure of marbles, granite, and wood is a relaxing haven where friends and family can get together to chat, relax, and revitalize. Bath and saunas are gender-separated, and co-ed spaces are not offered in this spa. Relax in its many facilities such as the hot tub, cold plunge, and dry and steam saunas. A stand out is the red and yellow clay room - a sauna where the walls and ceilings are lined with clay that helps with detoxifying the body when the clay is heated with infrared lights. Along with the standard hygiene stuff (towels, toothbrushes, razors, sandals, and a bathrobe for women), a light snack and water or tea are provided, too.

Imperial Day Spa

Address: 1875 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94115, United States

Website: Imperial Day Spa

Opening hours: Sat - Wed: 8am - 10pm (closed on Thu)

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5. Family Health Center

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Have a relaxing time with family and friends at the Family Health Center, a Korean spa that offers therapeutic services like saunas, scrubbing, massages, and other treatments to relax your mind and body. The spa also has a homey and communal atmosphere, making first-time customers want to make a return visit. Regulars of the place are mostly families or groups of friends, exchanging friendly chit-chat while being relaxed and revitalized in the spa. A unique and interesting service that the Family Health Center offers is the Car Accident Injury Treatment. Recognizing the pain people in a car accident suffer from, the service offers Chiropractic care to accident injury patients to help their recovery and make them feel better, even better than before they had an accident.

Family Health Center

Address: 70 Saratoga Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95051, United States

Website: Family Health Center

Opening hours: Mon - Sat: 9am - 10pm; Sun: 11am - 9pm (closed on Thu)

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Pamper yourself

Reward yourself with a visit to the best Korean spa in Palo Alto. Not only will it make you feel relaxed and rejuvenated, but it will also give you stunningly smooth and beautiful skin. The experience is unforgettably good for your well-being.

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