The best head spa in Redmond, WA, with the massage room down the same hall

Your hair is dry and warm, your scalp feels like it belongs to a calmer person, and your shoulders are exactly as tight as they were an hour ago. That is how a very good standalone session at the basin ends, because basin work stops at the neckline. The fix is on the same menu here: one-guest packages hold a full scalp session and a second full service — a massage, or a facial — inside a single reservation of 90 to 150 minutes, $130 to $260.

Ten dollars separates the entry tier from the one first-timers usually book — $70 for 45 minutes, $80 for 60 — and both numbers are printed, along with every add-on on the list. Doors are open 10 AM to 10 PM seven days a week, so the appointment does not have to come out of your working day. No star average appears on this site. The prices, the hours, the address and the phone number are what you can check before you arrive.

The mechanism is the floor plan. Basin work happens at the hydrotherapy stations and massage happens in the private rooms elsewhere in the suite, so a package is not one therapist improvising a longer session — it is two rooms held under one name across one block of the evening. You take your shoes off once. Nobody has to re-hear about your shoulder on a second day.

A package costs what its two halves cost separately, and the Redmond price guide works that through line by line. What the single booking buys is one drive, one arrival and one bill. The stacked lines themselves sit in the packages section of the menu.

Ask which half runs first when you book. The menu fixes the order for one pairing only — the 150-minute facial stack, basin first — and leaves the rest open. It matters more than people expect. One half of the visit ends with your hair washed, treated and blown dry; the other has you face down on a table with oil on your back, and the two do not swap around comfortably.

Thirty dollars buys ten minutes with a micro-camera on the skin under your hair, and Scalp Analysis is its own line on the menu rather than something folded into a tier. What it is really for is the decision that comes immediately after it.

The ladder asks you to choose between 45, 60, 70 and 90 minutes, and most people choose by budget because budget is the only visible variable. Ten minutes with a camera adds another. Dry patches, oil, product sitting at the roots, whether the itch you have been blaming on shampoo is anywhere on the surface at all — none of that is guessable through hair, and all of it points at a tier. A scalp with buildup on it argues for the scalp cleanse step that the 60-minute Signature at $80 includes and the 45-minute Mini Classic at $70 does not. A scalp that simply looks tired argues for length instead.

It is a look and not a diagnosis — nobody in the room is reading it as a medical result, and a scalp that is flaking, sore, itching or visibly changing belongs with a dermatologist rather than with a camera in a spa. It also describes today rather than predicting anything. Scalp work belongs to the same broad family as the other complementary mind and body practices NCCIH catalogues — it may help with relaxation and everyday muscle tension, and it is not a substitute for medical care.

Book it before the treatment, not after. Ten minutes ahead of an $80 hour can change which hour you buy. On the treatment itself: the basins here recline, and the water arrives from a fixture mounted overhead rather than a handheld sprayer, so both of the therapist's hands stay on your scalp for the whole session. The Japanese head spa page takes that hardware apart properly.

Call (425) 497-9700 and ask for the package by its menu name rather than for two separate services — that is what holds the basin and the massage room as one block. Walk-ins are welcome. An unannounced 150-minute request in the evening is optimistic, though, because the basins are limited and the evening slots go first. The phone is answered seven days a week, 10 AM to 10 PM.

Add-ons are separate lines with their own prices and their own clocks — a $10 eye steam mask, $20 essential oils, $30 ear candling, the $30 scalp analysis above. Decide on them while you are still on the phone. An add-on named at booking becomes part of the appointment; one named at the door is a favour you are asking of somebody else's schedule. Every add-on price is listed on the Redmond head spa price page.

NCCIH's plain-language summary of massage therapy is honest about how much of the research is small and preliminary, and its page on stress and complementary approaches reads the same way. Come for a long, quiet, warm two hours. Tell your therapist about a scalp condition, a recent injury, or a pregnancy before the session starts, and take anything past that to a clinician.