Koreatown's Wi Spa ups its game with a head spa, AI robot masseuse and more - BERITAJA

Wi Spa, pinch its basking and acold tubs, specialty saunas and napping nooks, has agelong been a beloved L.A. destination for remainder and rejuvenation. Now Koreatown’s about celebrated spa is kicking up its wellness offerings, getting up of the self-care trend. Or a head of it.

Wi Spa is opening a head spa. It’s much than halfway done building of Root Head Spa, slated to debut wrong the adjacent 2 months. It will beryllium located connected the lobby level, successful the abstraction that formerly housed a gym, pinch 7 individual curen rooms.

The thought for this caller version began earlier the caput spa inclination became truthful celebrated successful Los Angeles, says Min Jung, a Wi Spa manager. After researching the various types of caput spas, Wi Spa decided to create theirs “in the Japanese Yume Head Spa-style,” she says. Treatments will clean, exfoliate and moisturize the scalp, and they will see a gentle caput massage. (“Yume” intends “dream” successful Japanese, a motion to the sleepy authorities the curen leaves guests in.)

“But this is not a massage, this is not a caput wash, it is really a scalp treatment,” Jung says.

Videos of Chinese and Japanese-inspired caput spa treatments started popping up connected societal media successful 2022 — the arc-shaped “waterfall bath” is particularly visually intriguing. We chronicled the emergence of the trend, which first began proliferating successful Asian communities specified arsenic Arcadia, San Gabriel, Temple City and Rosemead, successful 2024 and 2025 — now location are caput spas across the city.

Scrubbing the scalp immunodeficiency circulation, strengthens hairsbreadth follicles and helps to forestall dandruff, itchiness and inflammation, among different benefits, practitioners and dermatologists say. In our coverage, we said it “might beryllium the about relaxing spa work successful L.A.”

Wi Spa’s Himalayan Salt Sauna, a visitant favorite.

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An hourlong Wi Spa caput spa curen will costs about $150 to $200, Jung says, adding that prices are not yet set. That’s the precocious extremity of mean successful L.A. for the treatment. Wi Spa’s $40 introduction interest (which includes entree to spa amenities) will not beryllium waived pinch acquisition of the caput spa treatment, arsenic it is pinch different Wi Spa services, specified arsenic a assemblage scrub aliases massage, which typically exceeds $160.

Also successful the works: Wi Spa is readying to build a wellness halfway connected its 3rd floor, successful what’s now a skincare area. The caller offering will apt see an infrared sauna and a reddish ray therapy bed, among different things. This past summertime Wi Spa besides opened a salon for blowouts, called Root Style Bar, adjacent to its women’s dressing room. So (cue the violins) guests nary longer person to trek retired to their car pinch bedewed hairsbreadth aliases be post-spa events pinch a DIY blowout.

Next up: a spa-wide renewal to freshen up existing areas.

In the meantime, visitors whitethorn not know: Wi Spa has an “Aescape” AI-powered massage robot connected its premises.

Reporter Deborah Vankin tries retired the Aescape massage robot astatine Pause Wellness Studio successful 2024.

(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

We wrote about Aescape erstwhile it debuted astatine Pause, a wellness halfway successful Studio City — it performs a 3D scan of your assemblage to present civilization robot massages. (Cyborg butt massages are not to beryllium underestimated.) There are now respective Aescapes about L.A., including astatine Equinox gyms. Wi Spa leased theirs this past summer. Guests could book robot massages for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes aliases an hr for $1 a minute, making it much affordable than Wi Spa’s manual massage offerings.

We’re partial to the about affordable massage action astatine Wi Spa, however: the plush, blue-lighted massage chairs scattered passim the spa. Bring cash. It’s conscionable $10 for a 30-minute “luxury” afloat assemblage massage — and it’s amazingly effective.