Stroll slowly through a quiet garden past tiny ponds, miniature waterfalls, lush flowers, shrubs and distinctive stone lanterns - all within the shadow of Los Angeles City Hall.

Relax in a quiet and peaceful Sanwa health Spa on the 4th floor of the New Otani Hotel, enjoy a Japanese Shiatsu fingertip massage. It makes you feel to be in the Heaven. Sanwa has some of the most skilled, Japanese-trained practitioners in the centuries-old art of Shiatsu, fingertip-pressure massage.

Shiatsu has its foundation in a traditional oriental massage style called "Anma" which based on principles of "Yin" and Yang" and the 5 elements. Anma follows a structure of meridians and vital points. Anma includes techniques of soothing, kneading, pressing, vibrating, exercising, tapping and rotating to the whole body in order to heighten one's own natural healing power by balancing the energy flow. Shiatsu mainly applies to stimulate the body's energy flow and the touch is deep, slow and ranges throughout whole body. Shiatsu works to release stiffness, aches, discomfort, psychosomatic troubles, disabilities and various internal organ troubles by improving circulation, but is highly recommended as a means of preventing disease and correcting imbalance in the vital energy.

As you know, our prices for this expert are quite reasonable. Also, parking in the hotel's secured garage is nominal and for those who work downtown, the DASH bus (for $.25) goes right by the hotel making a break-time massage a real possibility.