Spa & Massage · Gwangjin
Riverside Spa Land
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3.4 (17) · Bulhanjeungmak bathhouse
The main heat source is a pine-log fire rather than an element — the older bulhanjeungmak method — and the rooms around it are graded by material as much as by temperature: charcoal, salt, ochre, silver.
About: Riverside Spa Land occupies two basement levels at 45 Guui-gangbyeon-ro in Gwangjin-gu, about 9,900 square metres in all.
The centrepiece is a traditional bulhanjeungmak, a kiln heated by burning pine logs rather than by an element. Around it are rooms graded by material: charcoal, salt, a silver pyramid room, ochre rooms, an igloo room, and an ochre kiln reserved for women. The wet side has hot and cold pools, a massage pool, an aqua-walking pool and both wet and dry saunas, drawn on sulphur groundwater.
It is open around the clock, year round, with admission split into a daytime and a night rate. Game rooms, a children's play area and food service sit alongside the bathing floors.