Welcome to Sanpodo Acupuncture Shibuya's Home for Gentle, Traditional Japanese Acupuncture
There's a particular kind of tired that rest alone doesn't fix. The kind that builds slowly, through stress, irregular sleep, a body that never quite gets to switch off.
At Sanpodo Acupuncture in Shibuya, this is exactly what we work with. For over 30 years, we've been offering gentle, personalised acupuncture and moxibustion from our quiet clinic in the heart of Shibuya helping people feel more balanced, more resilient, and more at ease in their daily lives.
Whether you're a Tokyo resident seeking regular care, or a visitor curious to experience authentic Japanese acupuncture for the first time, you're welcome here. Consultations are fully available in English.
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.
Our Approach
At Sanpodo, we don't treat symptoms in isolation. We work with the whole person, your constitution, your lifestyle, your current condition, because the same symptom can have very different causes in different people.
Our 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, we offer treatments that are gentle enough to surprise most first-timers — and effective enough to keep patients returning for decades. Our 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
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 — doze off to the sound of the trains, take the session entirely at your own pace. Treatment here feels less like a clinic visit and more like time that's genuinely yours.
We are 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.