Why we love them
Haruka Japanese Massage in Melbourne
The Japanese room on Little Collins I send people to when they are already in the CBD and do not want a tourist spa. Close enough after a meeting that you walk, sit, and walk home.
- Japanese massage
- Relaxation
- Beauty & spa
- 413/365 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
- From 11:00
Written from sitting in the room — hours and phone as they gave them to me.
Reviews from visits
Written after going, and after sending people I actually know. Not copied from another site.
★★★★★
The neck work is why I keep going back
I went up from Little Collins with a laptop bag and a stiff right shoulder from too many calls. Shoes off, short hello, onto the table. It is Japanese massage — compact, exact, no perfume theatre. The first twenty minutes on the neck and upper back did more than an hour of the usual CBD oil rooms. I walked back toward Elizabeth Street feeling taller, not oily. That is the visit I describe when someone in the city asks where to go.
★★★★★
Close enough to walk. Strong enough to matter.
I told a friend in an office off Spring Street to skip the hotel spa and walk to Haruka. They texted after: small room, proper pressure, no hard sell, out in time for a 3pm. That is the whole point of a CBD Japanese room — you can use it on a working day. I would send them again.
★★★★★
Still the room I trust on Little Collins
Went back when the first visit held up. Same stairs, same quiet, same work on the shoulders. It is not a laneway gimmick and it is not trying to be Thai. If you want traditional Thai stretching, pick another listing on this map. If you want Japanese hands in the middle of Melbourne, this is the one I know.