WARM YOUR BODY — HEAT & RESET
SAUNA & CURRY URI
Even with the heater on, are your hands and feet still cold? In Japan we even have a casual word for that everyday coldness: hiesho—a cold sensation in the hands and feet.
Body temperature is the hand of an inner clock. When you stay cold while running on information and schedules, thinking tightens and taste goes flat. So I built the environment first: a place where you put the phone down, meet no one, and focus on nothing but sweat and breath. SAUNA & CURRY URI is a set of rebuilt private houses—each with its own sauna and cold bath—designed as a "Heat & Reset" field test. It's intentionally contactless and unmanned, so your time becomes yours the moment you arrive.
If you come to Japan, start with heat—and get your sense of time back.
LOCATIONS
KYOTANGO
SAKAE (Kura Sauna)
A near-100-year-old earthen storehouse rebuilt as a sauna—the room with the highest "time density." Stretch out on a flat 170cm surface, take in the stored warmth of soil and timber, then raise the heat with self-löyly and drop into a cold bath that can be chilled to around 8°C. Outside, spring-water sounds and valley wind turn resting into an editing room for your senses.
This isn't just "sauna bliss." It's jet-lag relief for the nervous system—heat re-syncing your inner clock.
TAKE (Meditation Sauna)
A small, black-walled sauna—cave-like—designed to pull your senses inward. It's a "meditation sauna," powered by a HARVIA tower stove with soft heat and deep löyly. Sauna, cold bath, indoor resting lounge, and the bedroom connect on a single floor—so rest can end straight in sleep.
Warm → cool → rest becomes a daily pathway, not a ceremony. This is reset by design.
YAE (Terrace Barrel Sauna)
A large terrace with an open-air resting space built from an old barn structure—and a serious barrel sauna. One section of the barn still holds a vertical "pit-like" pocket where rice husks were stored, collecting naturally cool air year-round—a built-in cold spot.
After heat, you step into the land's own temperature. That contrast redraws the edges of the body.
HIGASHI OSAKA
A "sauna-in-life" prototype: residential scale, professional-grade heat. Built around a HARVIA stove with an emphasis on airflow and humidity circulation, plus self-löyly (with optional aroma oils). The cold bath can be set down to a minimum of around 8°C.
Most importantly: it's designed to be contactless—removing the tiny frictions of typical hospitality so only warming remains.
A short-distance retreat in the city to re-sync your inner clock.