JinPoint Beauty Salon

If I am not mistaken, this is the one and only Jjimjilbang (Korean spa) in Hong Kong.
The place is located in a commercial building without much signage. Entrance is a closed door with metal gate, feeling kind of like you’re entering someone’s home. The lady who answered the door gave me a tour around: the lockers, the shower room, the sauna room, and so forth. There are also a nails corner, massage room, scrub room, etc. It was a weekday afternoon and seems like of the few patrons I am the only non-​Korean. (The others were chatting on the phone in Korean or reading Korean magazine or watching Korean tv…) Staff are Chinese who speaks some Korean and Cantonese.
I changed into my bathrobe, took a shower, then sweat a bit in the sauna room — made of jade and yellow clay, which supposedly help with detox. Afterwards I chilled out a bit in the living room, where I was told to «make myself at home.» I opened one fridge, found some soda as well as little bottles of yakult. I opened the other fridge, wondering if there would be snacks (which some jjimjilbangs do provide), and found what looked like employee lunchboxes. Certain that I am not to «make myself at home» to such extend, I settled down with some tea and yakult and used the free wifi to catch up with life. Finally I told the lady that I’m ready for my body scrub.
The body scrub is my favorite part of visiting a jjimjilbang. An ajumma will scrub literally every inch — okay, maybe minus a few square inches — of your body with a mitten, leaving you with baby soft skin. Afterwards, a bit more hanging around the sauna area till you decide it’s time to go.
For the adventurous, this place also provides chai yok (see
), a vaginal steam bath using Japanese mugwort to regulate your menstrual cycle, cure your «female complains», lose weight, increase libido, and bring (literally) inner peace… Don’t ask me… I guess I’m not *that* adventurous…
True to jjimjilbang tradition, this place is open 24 hours — yes, you can stay overnight. It’s for female only. Unlike most jjimjilbangs I visited, you can’t just go in with a low entrance fee; you have to book some service — massage, scrub, whatever, I guess in some way to make the place more exclusive.