The place

The room on Sunshine Road

A calm, warm, unpretentious massage studio in the inner west — the place you come to when your back has had enough and you want a skilled hour, not a ceremony.

The real single treatment room — made-up table, shelving with plants and Buddha figures, warm red lamp, timber floor

Inside

Cream walls, warm lamp, made-up table

Walk through the door and the room does its job before the session starts. Cream walls, timber floors, a shelf of small Buddha figures and plants, orchids, a warm red lamp against the corner — the kind of space that tells your shoulders to drop before your therapist has laid a hand on you.

The couples room has twin tables, grey robes hung on the wall, and that same calm. Same orchids. Same warm light. It isn't designed for occasion — it's designed for the body to let go.

Framed professional certificates hang at reception — a visible signal of association standing. The exact accrediting body will be confirmed before the site goes live.

The neighbourhood

West Footscray, Sunshine Road

Behind the gold-lotus awning on Sunshine Road — the one that says NEAR BY MASSAGE / Footscray in serif caps with the phone number painted underneath — is a strip-shop premises with customer parking on the apron out front. No fuss. Next door is a kitchen-cabinet place. The inner west has better things to do than pretend it's Toorak.

Footscray and Yarraville, Seddon, Maidstone — working people, trades, hospitality shifts, desk-bound necks, new parents. The name says it all: near by. Open late so you can come after work. Open on the weekend so you don't have to plan around it.

The real Footscray shopfront — green awning reading NEAR BY MASSAGE Footscray with the gold lotus mark and phone number painted on

Part of something larger

One room in a small Melbourne family of studios

Near By Massage Footscray is one branch of a small Melbourne brand — the same lotus mark, the same calm aesthetic, and the same commitment to fair, skilled, consistent work running across multiple studios including Brunswick, Richmond, Melton, Bacchus Marsh and Ardeer. Footscray is part of that family: the same standards, the same training, and the Fresha booking system used across all locations. The parent brand site is at nearbymassageofficial.com.au.

5.0 stars · 140+ reviews on Fresha

Clients come back and name their therapists

Katrina is a great masseuse.

Naveed A · Fresha

Amazing massage Ani is a boss

Pai P · Fresha

The therapist was truly care and friendly. And the massage is incredible solid 10/10

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The room is ready. Usually today.

Open every day, 10am to 8:30pm. 187A Sunshine Rd, West Footscray VIC 3012.

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