Ten Thousand Waves

Ten Thousand Waves is a celebrated Japanese mountain spa in the pinon-forested hills above Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the Japanese onsen tradition has been transplanted into the extraordinary high-desert landscape of the American Southwest with remarkable cultural coherence, creating one of the United States' most distinctive and consistently beloved spa destinations over four decades of operation. The facility offers communal and private outdoor soaking tubs fed with mineral-enriched water, a comprehensive Japanese body treatment menu, and a restaurant serving Japanese-influenced cuisine, all within a carefully designed environment of pine, cedar, and adobe stone that evokes a Japanese mountain retreat while remaining authentically rooted in New Mexico's own architectural and cultural landscape. Private tubs reserved for evening sessions beneath New Mexico's legendarily star-dense skies — the state ranks among America's finest for dark-sky astronomical observation — offer one of the country's most romantically complete and culturally layered spa experiences.