Sojo Spa Club

Edgewater, NJ

26 June 2025

We started our summer adventures with a relaxing trip to Sojo Spa Club in Edgewater, NJ. We often passed by this spa on our visits to Mitsuwa Marketplace, but never actually tried to spend a day there. It was a fun and new experience!

Upon arriving, there are two parking options, a free parking lot that is a few minutes walk from the spa entrance, or a valet option that then parks your car in a garage on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the spa building. The entire spa is 8 floors and has something to explore on every floor.

The daily admission entrance fee offers access to all of the outdoor amenities (weather permitting) and the indoor saunas. Other activities such as massages, facials, body scrubs, halotherapy, volcanic sand baths, and more are offered at an upcharge.

The first floor -

This is where you check in at the front desk. After checking in, you are given a wristband with a number on it. This number correlates to your two lockers during your stay and functions like a card when you pay for up charges. The first small locker on the first floor is for your shoes. From here on out, you can go barefoot or wear socks. Flip flops are allowed in the outdoor areas.

The fourth floor -

The next stop after checking in and removing your shoes is the fourth floor. On the fourth floor there are locker rooms, bath houses, a hydrotherapy pool, outdoor bath and sauna, and ganbanyoku (a type of hot stone sauna).

Once you enter the locker room, you are given a large towel and robe. The locker rooms are very accommodating and have everything that one would need to feel comfortable and relaxed. The lockers are spacious, there are large showers, counters with hairdryers, changing rooms, bathrooms, as well as a small section to buy items. You can buy swimsuits, flip-flops, socks, and care items. In the shower and counter area, there are plenty of amenities available (towels, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body lotion).

The outdoor amenities consisted of: the hydrotherapy pool, two silk baths, the hinoki bath, the carbon-rich bath, the waterfall, the foot massage path, the ganbanyoku sauna, the outdoor dry sauna, and the men's and women's bath houses.

A personal favorite of ours was the carbon-rich bath. When you sat in the bath, small bubbles would form on your skin and the temperature felt just right. Instead of typical benches, there were large stones to sit on in this bath. I also liked the foot massage path, but the small or loose stones were sometimes painful to walk on. The section of the path with large flatter stones was very comfortable to walk on, it felt like the stones were massaging the arch of your foot. The hinoki bath felt warmer than the others, but since it was almost always crowded, we did not spend a lot of time there. The silk bath was another visitor favorite, and since there were two of these, even though many people flocked to them, it did not feel as crowded as the hinoki bath. The hydrotherapy pool had stations with different types of jet massages. There was also a small jacuzzi in that area, but it only fit about eight people at a time. Since we are not used to saunas, we felt that the two saunas found on this floor were a more comfortable temperature than the ones on the fifth floor.

The fifth floor -

The therapy rooms, acupressure therapy, and saunas are on this floor. If you choose to stay the night, the hotel rooms are on this floor and on the sixth floor. We found the saunas to be too hot for us so we did not use these rooms, but we were still curious to check them out so we entered each one. Surprisingly, we found the ice room (average temperature about 34 degrees) to be more comfortable. We also found a relaxation area with recliners, mat beds, and hot stone beds in this area. We did try the hot stone beds and found them to be very comfortable and cozy. There are only a few of these hot stone beds, but you can experience a similar feeling with the ganbanyoku sauna on the fourth floor.

The sixth floor -

This floor houses the food hall, volcanic sand bath, and more hotel rooms.

We took a small snack break after exploring the fourth and fifth floors and stopped for fried vegetable dumplings in the food hall. From the food hall, you can see gorgeous views of the skyline with a nice atmosphere setting.

Later on for dinner, we went back to the food hall for a margherita pizza and ginger chicken. When we went back for dinner, the area we first stopped to eat at was closed, so we ate in the other half of the food hall. There was a nice view of the volcanic sand baths from this area of the hall.

The seventh floor -

This floor is where the iconic infinity pool is. While relaxing in the pool, you get to see a beautiful skyline of New York, a hotspot for photos. There is also a fitness center, a cowork space, an outdoor grill, and cabanas here. The outdoor grill is open dependent on weather conditions, and unfortunately it was also closed on the day of our visit. There was a small cafe with drinks and ice cream open near the pool.

The eighth floor -

This floor is where the rooftop garden is located. Unfortunately, due to the weather, we were unable to go up to the rooftop garden as it was closed. From what we could see, it looked like a nice place to relax and unwind.

Overall, we enjoyed our visit to Sojo Spa Club. For our first time ever, we found it to be fun and relaxing. Maybe we'll have to make a habit of visiting every year to kickstart our summer and get ourselves into the vacation mood.

Sojo Spa Club

660 River Road

Edgemwater, NJ 07020