Yu, The Spa

Yu is at 2 Chome, 10, 8 Sekiguchi in Bunkyo City. The spa sits a twenty-minute walk from the Koishikawa Korakuen Garden and is a short distance from the University of Tokyo.

Most spas in the city cluster around the high-traffic hubs of Ginza or Shinjuku, turning a treatment into an extension of the urban crush. Yu avoids this by sitting in the residential pockets of Bunkyo, providing a reprieve from the tourist density found near the garden. You choose this place when you want the city’s standard of service without the constant bustle of the central districts. It is for those who prefer their stillness to be literal rather than merely decorative.