Jämsän Saunakylä Sauna Village

Saunakylä at Juokslahti in Jämsä is a living village of more than twenty historic smoke saunas on Lake Päijänne, heated by volunteers every week in summer.

Saunakylä is a smoke sauna village in the literal sense: more than twenty smoke saunas built between the 1700s and the 1940s in different regions of Finland, taken apart, moved and rebuilt on a wooded shore of Päijänne at Juokslahti, and used rather than displayed. The idea belongs to architect Risto Vuolle-Apiala, who documented vanishing smoke saunas from the 1970s and founded the original village at Muurame in the early 1980s. When Muurame's village closed in 2010 and the saunas began to rot, a group of Jämsä sauna enthusiasts founded the Finnish Sauna Culture Association to rescue them; Muurame donated the saunas in 2015 and they were moved here.

Historic smoke saunas: smoke sauna heat. More than twenty smoke saunas from the 1700s to the 1940s. Listed amenities: Lake plunge, Changing rooms, Showers, Towel rental, Parking, Fire pit, Hosts events, Social sauna sessions.

Listing type: Public bathhouse. Access: Walk-in. Cold plunge: Swim in Lake Päijänne between saunas. Hours: Volunteers heat at least a dozen smoke saunas on each summer public sauna day. Dates for each season are published on the site. No booking is needed for the summer public saunas: tickets are sold at the Saunakylä café on the day. Women's sauna evenings, singles' sauna events, private sauna rentals and guided tours are listed on the site. SaunaShare records this listing as editorially reviewed by SaunaShare. A listing label describes where the information came from, not the quality of the sauna. Listing details were last reviewed on September 15, 2026.

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