Welcome to Sanpodo Acupuncture Shibuya's Home for Gentle, Traditional Japanese Acupuncture
Shibuya based acupuncture studio, Sanpodo focuses on various ailments caused by fatigue and stress in daily life. My goal is to help you live your fast-paced daily life without feeling too much pain, to help you lead a healthy life without relying solely on hospital visits or medication, and to help you feel healthy and energetic so that you can recover quickly from any problems you may have.
My treatment is based on Oriental medicine and encourages the healthy functioning of our natural autonomic nervous system. I use traditional Japanese thin needles and moxibustion to provide delicate and gentle acupuncture treatment.
How We Can Help
Relaxation & Recovery for the Nervous System
Modern life keeps the body in a constant state of alert. Personalised acupuncture to help restore autonomic balance, relieving insomnia, digestive issues, headaches, dizziness, and the kind of fatigue that doesn't shift with rest.
Athletes, Entertainment & Music Professionals
Specialist care for people who perform, compete, and create at a high level. Recovery, maintenance, and targeted treatment for the physical and invisible demands of professional life.
Women's Health, Fertility, Birth & Beyond
Gentle, informed support for every stage of women's health, from PMS and menstrual irregularities, to fertility care, prenatal comfort, and beyond.
Natural Support for Hair & Skin Health
Treating the root causes of hair loss, alopecia, eczema, acne, and skin irregularities, from the inside out.
Gentle Care for Children & Teens
Age-appropriate acupuncture for younger bodies, from newborns through to teenagers. Addressing growth-related concerns, digestive issues, sleep difficulties, stress, and more.
Elevate Your Natural Beauty from Within
Facial acupuncture that works with the whole body, restoring the internal balance that makes skin, expression, and natural radiance genuinely shine.
Meet The Therapist, Miho Abe
Hi I’m Miho Abe, the owner/ acupuncturist of Sanpodo.
I studied and worked abroad when I was younger, always in places where I would be the only Japanese person. I felt so lonely and scared especially when I was ill. I didn’t know how to explain my conditions in English, doctors and nurses didn’t understood me… Now back to Tokyo, I totally understand how you feel when you are in Japan, nobody understand what you want to say. I’m also married to an English man who is still struggling to communicate with doctors. If you are ill, you need a specialist who can communicate with you, so here I am.
Our Approach
At Sanpodo, I don't treat symptoms in isolation. I work with the whole person, your constitution, your lifestyle, your current condition, because the same symptoms can have very different causes in different people.
My treatments are rooted in traditional Eastern medicine and guided by pulse diagnosis: a careful assessment before every session that determines the precise placement, depth, and intensity of treatment for that day. Bodies change. So does every session.
Using Japan's exceptionally fine needles and carefully applied moxibustion, I offer treatments that are gentle enough to surprise most first-timers and effective enough to keep patients returning for decades. My goal is never dependency. It's a body that recovers well, resists stress, and needs less intervention over time.
Relax and Experience Gentle Japanese Acupuncture During Your Tokyo Stay
A calming, English-friendly introduction to traditional healing.
A Space That Feels Like Coming to a Friend's, Our Approach to Personalized Care
Please feel free to talk to me about your daily complaints and worries, as if you were visiting a friend. While many acupuncture studios have several acupuncturists treating several patients at the same time, I value the style of acupuncture where I concentrate on one patient at a time.
If you don’t want to talk, you can just listen to the sound of the trains or doze off. Please spend your healing time as you wish. Through treatment, your body will feel refreshed and relaxed, and you will recover your energy for tomorrow.
Sanpodo is one practitioner, one treatment room, one patient at a time. There are no overlapping appointments, no waiting room noise, no sense of being moved through a system.
You can talk through everything on your mind, or say nothing at all, take the session entirely at your own pace. Treatment here feels less like a clinic visit and more like time that's genuinely yours.
ISanpodo is proud to be an inclusive, LGBT-friendly space, welcoming patients of all genders and cultural backgrounds. Everyone is treated with the same care, discretion, and respect.