Tsukuba University of Technology East-West Integrative Medicine Center
About
Located in Kasuga, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, the Integrated East-West Medicine Center, affiliated with the School of Health Sciences at the National University Corporation Tsukuba University of Technology, is a distinctive medical facility practicing integrated medicine by combining Eastern and Western medicine within the academic environment of Tsukuba Science City. As a facility attached to the School of Health Sciences at Tsukuba University of Technology, the center's core consists of medical care that combines Western medicine methods based on scientific evidence with traditional Eastern medicine knowledge, providing a professional medical environment unique to a university-affiliated institution. The medical department is internal medicine, and general reception operates on weekdays from 8:30 AM to 5:15 PM (excluding lunch breaks), with the facility closed on weekends, holidays, and year-end/New Year holidays. The center's ability to provide medical services in English is one of its features, creating an environment where patients whose native language is not Japanese can relatively smoothly receive medical care. The facility has a parking lot, making it accessible by car. Additionally, barrier-free design has been adopted, making the facility easy to use for various patients, including wheelchair users and the elderly. The unique medical policy of integrating Eastern and Western medicine brings both breadth and depth to the center's healthcare.
