There are many head spa shops in Tokyo, and the menus look alike. Before you book, check six things: wet or dry, the room, what the time includes, tax, how to book, and where it is.

This guide from LUJU, a hair salon in Ginza, helps you compare shops, including ours, in a few minutes.

A head spa uses water: cleansing, shampoo, treatment and a blow-dry. A dry head spa is a head massage with no washing. Both are popular in Tokyo, and the names are easy to mix up. Decide first whether you want your hair washed.

Some shops have private rooms. Others have several shampoo chairs in one room. If you want quiet, look for the words "private room" on the menu. LUJU has semi-private seats, not fully closed rooms, and it is one-on-one: one stylist looks after one guest at a time.

A "90-minute course" can mean 90 minutes of treatment, or 90 minutes from the door to the door. When we checked the English menus of three central Tokyo shops on 3 October 2026, one listed a 75-minute course with 40 minutes of treatment. Look for the treatment time, and whether the talk before and the blow-dry after are inside the time.

At the three shops we checked, courses of 60 to 120 minutes cost about ¥12,000 to ¥43,000. Some menus show prices before tax and some after. Japan's consumption tax is 10%, so check which one you are looking at. There is no tipping.

Menu and prices at LUJU Ginza (before tax)

First-visit prices apply to online bookings (LINE or the booking form). We do not offer a head-spa-only menu.

Check two things: how you book, and how the shop talks with you. Some shops take bookings only through Japanese apps. Others have an English form, email or a booking button on Google.

In the shop, many places use a translation app or device, and a few have an interpreter on some days. At LUJU we mainly speak Japanese and use a translation app. You can book with LINE or with our English booking form.

A head spa is easy to add to a day of walking. Pick a shop near where you will already be, and check the last booking time. LUJU is 2 minutes on foot from Ginza Station and open from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm, closed on Tuesdays.

To be clear about what we are: LUJU is a hair salon, not a shop that does only head spas. We do not have a head-spa-only menu. Our head spa comes with LALA PEEL, a Korean face treatment, in one visit of about 2 hours.

• Choose LUJU if you want your scalp and your face cared for in the same seat, by one stylist.
• Choose a head spa specialist if you want a head spa only, or a shorter visit.