Where are Saunas?

Looking for a sauna, anyone? Where are Saunas in Finland? Here are two maps with directions to several sauna locations which I loooooved! The second map shows several smoke and other saunas worth trying. Click on the icons to get driving directions.

Map One -- Saunas I have tried

Get a great sauna experience at the Rauhaniemi Sauna located in Tampere. Try an exotic variety of Finnish saunas at Herrasmanni's in Tarvasjoki near Turku along the Ox Road. Map icons contain more information.

How to use the map

• arrows navigate you up or down, left or right.
• pull the screen in any direction you want
• if you need a closer look, use the + plus key, zoom out with the - minus key.

In this map, you can click on the Man sitting in the Sauna. Information on that sauna will pop up, including a link to a sauna review and the phone number.

Click and hold down as your cursor turns into a hand on the map area to move the map back into position.

To make the pop up window on the map disappear, select and click on the map area, pull the map back into position to close the pop up window.

Map Two -- Where are Saunas?

Soft Steam of Recommended Smoke Saunas in Finland

The traditional Finnish sauna is a derivative of the smoke sauna. The hot room of the smoke sauna is filled with smoke and held inside the chamber. Hence, the insides of smoke saunas are charcoal black. After the smoke is released through the door or other ventilation, the sauna is ready for use.

Pentti Tuohimaa, the current chairman of the Kansainvälinen Savusaunaklubi Ry International Smoke Sauna Club in Finland, is a medical doctor and sauna expert who tests smoke saunas across Finland, Russia and the Baltics. Not all smoke saunas are approved by the club.

Searching for 'High Quality Soft Steam Experience in Finland.'? Where are saunas approved by the Smoke Sauna Club? I have included five on the map.

Note: The pin icons shown in the maps represent those saunas approved by the International Smoke Sauna Club. Balloon pins represent other saunas.

View Where are saunas recommended Smoke Saunas in Finland Map in a larger map

Southern Finland -the Helsinki area (navy blue pin)

This smoke sauna located in Vantaa offers a genuine smoke sauna experience in the summer or winter. Swim in a pond to cool off, then eat a full barbeque meal in the summer or indulge in a 'pit oven' prepared meal in the winter. Up to 15 people.

180 km's north of Helsinki near the town of Vammala (red pin)

Enjoy the steam of an award-winning smoke sauna while relaxing in an outdoor heated whirlpool. Roast fish over the fire under an open shelter or order Finnish cuisine prepared by the host. Up to 15 people.

Where are saunas?

Near Turku (turquoise pin)

This large smoke sauna seats up to 30 people. A large deck extends around the sauna, and accesses a pond for swimming/ice-swimming depending on the season. Other services include a traditional Finnish Lapland Kota, paintball, and bed-and-breakfast.

Parainen, South of Turku (yellow pin)

A 'must-visit' smoke sauna experience. The family owned business has burned down five smoke saunas - a good sign really! Dip in the salty archipelago water inside an outdoor barrel spa. Order a special catered meal with your sauna.

Located at a former fishing village of Turku (green pin)

If you have a group of up to 200 people and want an authentic 'Finnish sauna bathing and activity experience,' Herrankukkaro offers above/underground smoke saunas with a host of activities like ice-fishing, sledding, hiking. The SS Ukkospekka steam ship lands on the Herrankukkaro dock.

Video of Herrankukkaro

Layout Map of the Old Fishermans Village in Naantali

Where are saunas in Lapland?

Visit the Largest Smoke Sauna in the World (blue balloon)

In the early 1900's the number of smoke saunas produced in Finland reached its peak. In the 1950's Finnish loggers in Rauhalahti lodged in this area and enjoying the steam of a smoke sauna daily.

If you want to tell your friends: "I have been there" during your stay in Finland, then give the Jätkänkämppä Smoke Sauna a go. Known as the 'largest smoke sauna in the world.' It too, has burned down several times.

The wooden single story sauna room is without an enclosed stove so that stove rocks are piled in layers restriced only by shallow mortared walls. Directly underneath the pile of rocks is a blazing fire. Wood is fed from the outside of the hot room whereas most other smoke sauna designs are heated within the hot room.

Pay 12 Euros for entry into the sauna with two towels. With 20 extra Euros, you can enjoy a traditional Finnish dish with your sauna experience.

On Tuesdays the sauna is open to the public. Despite  its early opening 4 pm. Nearby hotel guests may swarm to get seats. Go after 6pm and to get a good seat.

Drive 5km southwest on road E65 9 from the town of Kuopio and you'll get to Rauhalahti.

The Largest Sauna in Finland, Sweden and the World -Cape East (green balloon)

This is a 'must do' for any holiday goer/sauna enthusiast craving a taste of Finnish and Swedish foods.

Relax in the largest modern style sauna in the world which is inside a massive rectangular building with seven saunas and hot/cold pools.

The mammoth hot room of the largest sauna holds over 130 folks on ten levels of benches. The regulated steam temperatures are anywhere from 50, 70, and 90 Celsius depending on which bench level you sit on. Outside there is a large heated pool.

15 minutes drive from the Largest Sauna in World (red balloon)

14 kilometers from Tornio Finland, on the Swedish side of the Torne river is the Kukkollaforsen Conference Center containing over a dozen types and styles of saunas, including smoke saunas.

Order special fresh fish menus. Go whitewater rafting, and visit a fishing museum. Overnight in log cabins near the river.

More information at the Kukkollaforsen website