Kotiharjun Sauna
Built in 1928, Kotiharju is the last public wood-heated sauna in Helsinki, according to the family who have run it since 1991. Its men's stove holds about 1,500 kg of stones and takes up to five hours to heat, and a washer gives full-body scrubs on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Getting in
- Public transport
- Metro to Sörnäinen, or trams 1, 6, 7 and 8 to Sörnäinen (M)
- Address
- Harjutorinkatu 1, 00500 Helsinki
Entry, hours and rules
- Entry
- Sauna€16
- Price group 1: students, pensioners, unemployed€13
- Children 12 to 16€9
- Complete body wash (Thursdays and Saturdays)€15
- Hours
- Monclosed
- Tue14:00-20:00
- Wed14:00-20:00
- Thu14:00-20:00
- Fri14:00-20:00
- Sat14:00-20:00
- Sun14:00-20:00
- Swimwear and rules
- Separate men's and women's saunas.
- Minimum age
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- Tickets
- Day ticket, no time slot
- Official site
- kotiharjunsauna.fi
- Facilities
- SaunaChanging roomsLockersShowersTowel hire
About Kotiharjun Sauna
The men's sauna is on the ground floor and a women's sauna of the same size is upstairs, and the upper benches hold 20 to 30 bathers. A pipe shelf was later built above the other benches in the men's sauna for the hardiest bathers, and whoever sits there decides how much löyly gets thrown. Between rounds, bathers cool off outdoors in front of the building. The stoves are the heat-storage kind and adding wood to them is forbidden; a sauna day burns about a cubic metre of wood. The sauna was renovated in 1999 with support from the Cultural City Foundation of Helsinki.