6969-1 Murotomisaki-cho, Muroto City, Kochi; 81-8/8722-1811; www.utocods.co.jp; doubles from $260; treatments from $100.
JAL has four daily nonstop flights to Kochi from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Utoco can arrange car service for the approximately two-hour drive to Cape Muroto.
At the InterContinental Bora Bora in Tahiti, the environmentally sensitive hotel has discovered another health-conscious application at the newly opened Deep Ocean Spa by Algotherm. In overwater bungalows, thalassotherapy treatments pair pure water from the South Pacific seabed with Algotherm’s marine-based ingredients (algae extracts, salt, fango mud) from Brittany. 689/604-900; www.boraboraspa.intercontinental.com; doubles from $873; treatments from $102.
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