The Best Korean Spas in Los Angeles: Koreatown and Beyond

Wi Spa charges $40 and never closes. Crystal Spa charges $30 and closes at 10 PM. Century Day & Night Spa charges $35 and gives you exactly four hours, despite the name. Time Out puts it plainly: Koreatown has no shortage of Korean spas to choose from, and the admission prices sit close enough together that the thing actually deciding your visit is the house rules: who gets in, what you wear, and how long you’re allowed to stay.

Every price below is the venue’s own, taken from its official site and checked in September 2026. Spa pricing in LA moves, time limits get added, and one of these places has an uncertain future, so treat these as the figure to expect and confirm on the booking page before you drive over.

The short version: which one to pick

• Open all night: Wi Spa, the only genuine 24/7 option among the spas I could verify hours for.
• Women only: Olympic Spa, 18 and over, booked online.
• Cheapest day: Crystal Spa at $30, or $20 if you show up before 9 AM on a weekday.
• Mineral water soak: Beverly Hot Springs, built over what the spa calls the city’s only natural hot springs.
• Pool, gym and extras: Century Day & Night Spa, where the $35 pass also covers an indoor pool and a fitness center.
• Out of town and big: The Spa Hyu in City of Industry, $40 for up to six hours with free parking.

Prices and rules at a glance

What the names don’t tell you

Century Day & Night Spa closes at midnight. Spa Palace is not in Koreatown. Wi Spa only borders it. Accuracy was not the main goal when these names were chosen.

The practical version: ignore the branding and read three things before you book. First, the address, because “Koreatown spa” covers everything from 6th Street to City of Industry. Second, the age policy, which ranges from 5 and up at Spa Palace to strict 18-plus at Century and Olympic. Third, the time limit, which is where the real price lives.

How a Korean spa visit works in LA

You pay at the front desk and get a wristband that doubles as your locker key. Then you shower, properly, before you get into anything: every spa I checked spells this out on its own policy page. In the gender-separated wet areas at Wi Spa, Century, Olympic and The Spa Hyu, bathing is nude and swimsuits are specifically not allowed. Most guests carry the small towel the spa hands out. Spa Palace is the outlier and asks you to bring your own swimwear for the pool and bath areas.

The co-ed floor is the other half of the building, and there you wear the shirt and shorts the spa gives you. That’s the jjimjilbang: a set of themed heated rooms plus sleeping and lounging space, where mixed groups, couples and families actually spend their time. Those rooms are dry radiant heat, clay and salt and charcoal and jade, so there’s no löyly (the burst of steam a Finnish sauna throws off when water hits the hot stones) to speak of. The steam and the hot water are back on the gender-separated floors.

Phones stay in the locker. Olympic Spa, Beverly Hot Springs, The Spa Hyu and Spa Palace all ban them in the bathing areas outright, and Century bans photography in the spa and locker areas. The bans are written for the bathing areas; the co-ed floor rules are quieter on the subject, so check the house policy at the desk.

The Koreatown spas, one by one

Wi Spa

At the corner of Wilshire and Rampart, on the Koreatown and Westlake border, Wi Spa is the default answer for visitors and the one to pick if your schedule is strange. It is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and admission is $40, waived entirely if you book a treatment of $160 or more. Parking is valet only, $4, cash.

The layout is a women’s floor and a men’s floor with hot and cold baths, steam room and dry sauna, where bathing is nude, plus a family-friendly co-ed floor in uniform with five named sauna rooms (bulgama, salt, clay, jade and ice), a kids zone, computer and book areas, sleeping areas, a rooftop terrace and a full-service restaurant. All ages are welcome, but anyone under 18 has to be accompanied by an adult of the same gender in the spa and sauna areas. Overnight stays cost extra depending on when you checked in; the timing rules are laid out in Wi Spa’s own FAQ and worth reading if you plan to sleep there.

Olympic Spa

Women only, 18 and over, photo ID required. Olympic Spa on West Olympic Boulevard is the one to book if you want the Korean spa experience without any co-ed floor at all. A non-member Spa Day is $60 and covers the pools, saunas and lounges, but you book it online with a non-refundable $20 deposit and the slots are limited, so this is not a walk-in. Hours are 9 AM to 9 PM daily, and the spa closes on the last Wednesday of each month plus a handful of holidays.

Inside there’s a jacuzzi, a soaking bath, a cold plunge, a steam room, red clay saunas, a Himalayan salt room and jade-floor rest areas. House rules are stricter than most: shower first, sit on a towel in the saunas, no swimsuits or underwear in the wet area, no phones, and the spa recommends capping each heat session at 15 minutes.

Century Day & Night Spa

Century is the best-value pass in Koreatown if you’re efficient about it. $35 gets you the men’s or women’s spa, the co-ed floor, the fitness center and the indoor pool, with a four-hour limit. It is 18 and over, no children, and open 9 AM to midnight with treatments from 10 AM to 8 PM. Multi-visit books bring the per-visit price down ($150 for five, $260 for ten).

What you get beyond the usual jacuzzis and saunas is genuinely unusual: an indoor swimming pool with swim caps required, a two-level golf driving range at $5 a basket, and the Century Home Bap restaurant, which you can eat at without paying spa admission. House rules include no hair dye or oil products, no photos in the spa or locker areas, and, since August 2026, no metal water bottles.

Crystal Spa

$30 for a day pass with no time limit, or $20 before 9 AM on weekdays, makes Crystal Spa on West 6th Street the cheapest walk-in of the group, with six hours of validated parking on top. It’s open 7 AM to 10 PM daily and the heated rooms are walk-in, no booking needed.

Understand what you’re paying for, though: Crystal is a heated-room spa. The site describes eight heated rooms, including a Himalayan salt room, a charcoal room, a red mud room using clay from Korea’s Jincheon region, a cool-down room, a cedar dry sauna and a co-ed lounge, plus a skincare lab, a workout studio and an Aveda shop. If a long soak in hot water is the point of your visit, Beverly Hot Springs or Wi Spa is the better use of your afternoon.

Beverly Hot Springs

This is the one nobody else in LA can copy. Beverly Hot Springs on North Oxford Avenue sits on a spring that oil drillers hit in 1910 and has run as a Korean-style spa since 1984, fed by what the venue calls a 105-degree artesian well. Admission is $50 Monday to Friday and $55 on weekends and holidays, and covers the hot mineral pool, cold plunge, steam room and dry sauna, with a two-hour limit. Hours are 10 AM to 8 PM, and Tuesdays are held for private bookings.

Everything here is gender separated, pools, saunas and showers, with no co-ed area (the site lists one as coming soon). The minimum age is 14 for women and 16 for men, and phones and any recording device are banned inside the spa area, no exceptions. One caveat worth knowing: in 2023 there were reported plans to redevelop the site and the property was reported for sale, and a local alliance pushed for historic designation. The spa is still open and taking bookings as of this writing, but I’d call ahead rather than assume.

Spa Palace

On South Union Avenue, east of Koreatown proper, Spa Palace markets itself as a 24-hour spa and allows overnight stays for guests 18 and over. Its co-ed floor has five themed rooms (Elvan stone, Himalayan salt, gold, loess soil and an ice room), and the pool runs 10 AM to 10 PM.

The dress code is the thing that sets it apart: you bring your own swimwear for the pool and bath areas, with robes or covers over it elsewhere, and the separate spa section is described as nudity optional. The policy wording is loose enough that I’d ask at the desk on arrival. Children are admitted from age 5, but under-18s can’t stay overnight, and there’s no re-entry once you leave. Admission isn’t published on the official site, so call for the current figure rather than trusting a number from a review site.

Aroma Spa & Sports

Aroma on Wilshire is treatment-led rather than a day-pass spa: it doesn’t publish a standalone admission price, and instead applies a $20 entrance fee to any service under $120, waived at $120 or with two treatments. The facilities pair a Korean spa (steam, dry, clay, jade, healing-stone and thermo-infrared rooms, plus hot, temperate and cold pools) with a junior Olympic-size indoor pool and a four-level golf driving range. Book a scrub, treat the entry fee as part of the total.

The Spa Hyu, City of Industry

If you’re staying in the San Gabriel Valley or you just want more room, The Spa Hyu is worth the drive east. $40 buys up to six hours, with free on-site parking: gender-separated nude bathing areas with hot, warm and cold pools plus dry and steam saunas, and a co-ed hall with five themed heated rooms where you wear the provided uniform. Minimum age is 12, phones are banned in the nude areas, and no reservation is needed for general admission. Hours run 9 AM to 10 PM most days, 11 PM Friday and Saturday, and it closes Wednesdays for deep cleaning.

The body scrub, and what it costs

The Korean body scrub (seshin, also sold as akasuri) is a soak followed by a full-body exfoliation: an attendant works you over on a table with a coarse mitt while rinsing you down, and grey rolls of dead skin come off in visible quantity. It’s brisk rather than relaxing, and it’s the reason most regulars come. Wi Spa frames the whole Korean spa format as growing out of a centuries-old tradition of families making weekly trips to public bathhouses to scrub and be scrubbed.

The headline price is not the total. A $60 scrub at Crystal plus entry lands near the cost of an $85 scrub at Century that already includes the pass, and Wi Spa’s $65 Buff sits on top of a $40 door charge unless you spend $160 or more. Compare the all-in figure, not the menu line.

Beyond the Korean spas

Los Angeles has a small non-Korean bathing scene too, and it’s priced very differently. Voda Spa in West Hollywood runs on the Russian banya model: wet and dry banyas, a Finnish sauna, a steam room, cold plunge, jacuzzi and pool, with facility use at $110 for non-members and $85 for members, no reservation required. It’s open afternoons and evenings most days and closed Tuesdays. It’s roughly double the cost of a Koreatown pass, so go for the banya treatment rather than the square footage.

Teddy’s Hot House in Venice is the contrast-therapy version: a 90-minute drop-in is $48, the Finnish dry sauna is magnolia wood with two Harvia heaters running around 195 to 200°F (roughly 90 to 93°C), and three plunge tubs sit at about 31 to 50°F (0 to 10°C). Swimsuits are required, and the FAQ specifically asks that you not substitute underwear, which suggests the question has come up. If you’re weighing LA against public saunas in other US cities, this sauna-and-plunge studio format is the one you’ll also find in other US cities.

One to watch rather than book: Bathhouse, the brand behind several of New York’s best-known bathhouses, has leased the former Amoeba Music building at 6400 Sunset Boulevard and plans to move in during 2028. It is not open, and no firmer date than the year is public.

Planning a trip east? Atlanta’s three Korean spas sit in its northeast suburbs, two of them open all night: see the best Korean spas in Atlanta.

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