Wellness Technology · Procurement & Installation Advice
The Iyashi Dôme is a Japanese far-infrared dome. The guest lies down, the dome closes over the body below the neck, and the session runs as a timed protocol rather than a single treatment — which is what makes it sell as a course rather than a one-off booking.
I Feel Spa International advises on, specifies and helps you source Iyashi Dôme installations for hotel and day spas, medical wellness clinics and private residences across the GCC, East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands.
This page covers what the device is, what decides its cost, whether it earns its place in a commercial spa, and what the room has to provide. For the other eight technologies we specify, see wellness technologies.
It is a dome-shaped far-infrared unit mounted over a treatment bed. Unlike a sauna, which heats the air around the body, the dome applies infrared directly to the skin while the head stays outside in room air — so the guest is warm rather than struggling to breathe hot air, and most people tolerate a full session comfortably.
A session is simple to run and needs a therapist only to set up, monitor and finish:
That last point is the commercially useful one. A device that is used as a programme produces repeat visits from the same guest, which is a different revenue pattern from a single massage booking.
We do not publish a price, and we would treat any single figure quoted before someone understands your project with caution. What we can give you is everything that moves the number:
Send us the room — a plan, or a photograph and rough dimensions — and the market it is going into, and we will come back with a specification and a real figure. That is a short conversation, not a sales process.
The honest caution: a quoted equipment price that excludes freight, room preparation and commissioning is not the number you will actually spend. Ask for all five lines above before comparing suppliers.
Sometimes, and the question is worth taking seriously rather than assuming yes.
It makes sense when the spa sells programmes rather than single treatments — a detox, recovery or longevity course over several visits. The dome suits that model because it is protocol-based, the result is cumulative, and one therapist can supervise it without being occupied hands-on for the whole session, which is not true of a massage.
The honest case against: if your spa sells single treatments to hotel guests who stay two nights and never return, a programme-based device will sit idle. In that situation we would tell you to spend the money on treatment-room capacity instead. The question is not whether the technology is good — it is whether your guest mix will use it more than twice a week.
None of this is difficult. All of it is expensive to discover after the room is finished, which is the usual sequence.
A dedicated room is better than a corner of one. The unit needs access along both sides for the therapist, and room for the guest to get on and off the bed comfortably.
A dedicated supply, confirmed against the actual board rather than assumed. On a generator-backed property, sized against the generator too.
The unit sheds heat into the room it stands in. Without cooling and an air change, the room becomes uncomfortable for the therapist and unpleasant for the next guest.
Guests shower immediately after a session. If the nearest shower is down a corridor, the experience falls apart and the room will be under-used.
Measure the doors, the lift and the stairs before ordering. The unit arrives in one piece and cannot be taken apart to get it in.
Space to reach the service panels, and an agreed engineer in your country before purchase, not after the first fault.
Our judgement, from installations we were called in to correct: the two that catch people out are cooling and the access route. Both are settled on a drawing in minutes and cost real money to fix afterwards.
At Satoriwell Beauty Clinic, a 135 m² medical spa, we designed a dedicated modular room built around an Iyashi Dôme detox capsule, with a separate room for the adjoining treatments. The room was planned around the device from the first layout rather than fitted around it afterwards.
That is the difference the page above is describing. On a project where the dome is decided early, the services, the shower and the access route are simply part of the drawing. Where it is added late, each of them becomes a variation.
We hold relationships with more than 50 international manufacturers, Iyashi Dôme among them. Those relationships are used to source, compare and get equipment serviced locally — never to steer a specification. If the dome is wrong for your project, we will say so.
Send us the room and the market. We will come back with a specification and a real figure.
Start Your ProjectIt is a Japanese far-infrared dome mounted over a treatment bed. The guest lies down and the dome closes over the body with the head outside, so infrared is applied to the skin while the guest breathes room air rather than hot air. Sessions run as a timed protocol and are normally sold as a course over several weeks rather than as a single treatment.
We do not publish a figure, because the honest answer depends on five things: the model and configuration, delivery and customs into your market, room preparation (power, cooling, ventilation, finishes), commissioning and training, and the annual servicing programme. An equipment price quoted without the other four is not what you will actually spend. Send us the room and the market and we will specify it properly.
It does when the spa sells programmes rather than single treatments, because the device is protocol-based, the result is cumulative and one therapist can supervise without being hands-on throughout. It does not when the spa serves short-stay guests buying one massage and never returning — in that case treatment-room capacity is the better investment. The test is whether your guest mix will use it more than twice a week.
A dedicated room with clearance on both sides, a dedicated power supply confirmed against the actual board, cooling and ventilation because the unit sheds heat into the room, a shower within easy reach for use straight after a session, and an access route — doors, lift, stairs — wide enough to bring the unit in whole. The two that most often catch people out are cooling and the access route.
No. I Feel Spa International specifies Iyashi Dôme units and advises on their sourcing, installation and servicing for spas, clinics and private residences — we do not operate treatment rooms, so there is no session to book with us. If you are looking for a treatment, ask a spa or clinic near you whether they have one installed. If you are looking to install one, we specify it and advise you through the installation.
Irina Filippova
Chief Architect, I Feel Spa International
Leads interior design and architectural consultancy across I Feel Spa International’s global portfolio. Creator of award-winning spa interior concepts across Russia, the CIS and the Middle East.