IBD centres in Japan
14 hospitals with a dedicated service for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Listed alphabetically by city — not ranked.
Fukuoka
Fukuoka University Hospital (福岡大学病院)
The centre was set up inside the university hospital as a specialist unit for inflammatory bowel disease and treats about 1,000 people with ulcerative colitis and about 500 with Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery lead a team with nurses, pharmacists, registered dietitians and social workers; IBD specialists hold clinics every weekday, and a multidisciplinary conference meets monthly. It offers small-bowel investigation, biologics, JAK inhibitors and S1P modulators, endoscopic balloon dilation, laparoscopic IBD surgery, and a consultation service with obstetrics for pregnancy.
1 named clinician
Kawagoe
Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University (埼玉医科大学総合医療センター)
The IBD Center opened in April 2023, bringing together gastroenterology, gastrointestinal surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology and the mental-health clinic, supported by nursing, pharmacy, nutrition, chemotherapy and endoscopy. It treats outpatients wherever possible so patients can avoid admission, works closely with the surgeons when an operation is needed, sees women planning pregnancy jointly with obstetrics, and sees children jointly with paediatrics. Treatment runs from mesalazine, thiopurines and steroids to antibody drugs by injection or infusion and oral small-molecule drugs.
2 named clinicians
Nagoya
Nagoya University Hospital
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center offers consultation with doctors specialising in IBD, combining medicine, surgery and post-operative care in a multidisciplinary approach. Its stated investigations and treatments include endoscopy, small-bowel endoscopy by capsule and double-balloon, laparoscopic surgery and pelvic and anal surgery, and the team includes nurses, pharmacists and nutritionists. The centre states it also supports patients returning to life events such as school, pregnancy and childbirth, and that it runs clinical trials and clinical research. Clinics are held on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons.
Nishinomiya
Hyogo Medical University Hospital (兵庫医科大学病院)
The IBD Center brings the hospital's IBD physicians and IBD surgeons together, working closely with other medical staff, for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. It runs two medical and one surgical outpatient clinic every day, and a certified nurse runs a stoma clinic every day. It also treats short bowel syndrome, complex anal fistula and colitis-associated cancer, can move straight to emergency surgery when medical treatment fails, and accepts referrals and emergency transfers from other hospitals. Biologics can be started and continued at the hospital or, in coordination, at the patient's local clinic.
2 named clinicians
Okayama
Okayama University Hospital
The Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center brings together gastroenterology, GI surgery, paediatrics and paediatric surgery, working with nurses, pharmacists and dietitians. It describes itself as a core hospital for IBD, taking not only mild and moderate disease but also patients with severe or refractory disease referred from other general hospitals. Specialised IBD clinics run Monday to Friday, and the centre also admits patients for multidisciplinary treatment and detailed assessment.
Osaka
Osaka Police Hospital (大阪けいさつ病院), Osaka International Medical & Science Center
The IBD Center treats ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and other refractory inflammatory bowel conditions such as intestinal Behçet's disease, from mild to severe. Gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons work with nurses, pharmacists and dietitians as one team, and the centre also gives dietary guidance and help with daily life. Treatment runs from 5-ASA drugs, steroids and immunomodulators (with NUDT15 testing first) to biologics, JAK inhibitors and other targeted drugs, endoscopic balloon dilation for strictures, and surgery including seton drainage for Crohn's fistulas.
2 named clinicians
Osaka
National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital (大阪医療センター)
The IBD Center was set up in April 2024 so that the hospital's gastrointestinal surgeons and gastroenterologists treat IBD patients together; about 350 patients attend (280 with ulcerative colitis, 80 with Crohn's disease). The surgeons handle emergency surgery for severe ulcerative colitis and bowel resection for Crohn's strictures and penetrating disease, and the gastroenterologists treat to current guidelines and take part in international trials of new IBD drugs. Referrals, transfers and urgent surgical consultations go through the hospital's regional liaison office.
Sakai
Kindai University Hospital (近畿大学病院)
The IBD Center was set up in April 2025 to give specialist care for ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel disease. Gastroenterology, surgery, paediatrics, the blood purification and endoscopy centres, nursing, pharmacy and nutrition work together from diagnosis through treatment, lifestyle guidance and support for returning to social life. It uses biologics and immunomodulators according to disease activity, refers promptly for surgery when needed, and offers capsule and balloon enteroscopy for small-bowel Crohn's disease; stable patients can move to follow-up with their local doctor.
2 named clinicians
Sapporo
Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital (札幌厚生病院)
The IBD Center opened in April 2009 as a unit set up specifically to treat inflammatory bowel disease, chiefly ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, and is listed as its own department in the hospital's directory. The hospital describes its approach as IBD treatment that does not rely excessively on steroids, using anti-TNF-α antibodies (infliximab, adalimumab), newer 5-ASA drugs, ustekinumab, vedolizumab and JAK inhibitors for refractory cases. It has taken part in clinical trials of these drugs from early in their development.
1 named clinician
Sapporo
Sapporo Higashi Tokushukai Hospital (札幌東徳洲会病院)
The IBD Center is a specialist department for diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease, opened in 2008 and staffed by three full-time and two part-time specialists. It puts particular weight on small-bowel investigation (small-bowel contrast studies, MRI, capsule endoscopy and balloon-assisted enteroscopy) and uses abdominal ultrasound to reduce the burden of monitoring ulcerative colitis. Treatment runs from 5-ASA drugs and enteral nutrition to biologics and JAK inhibitors, endoscopic balloon dilation for Crohn's strictures, and surgery with the hospital's surgeons; nurses, registered dietitians, pharmacists and technicians work as a team, and there are Saturday-morning and weekly evening clinics.
2 named clinicians
Sapporo
Sapporo Medical University Hospital (札幌医科大学附属病院)
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center was set up by Sapporo Medical University Hospital to give specialised, comprehensive care to people with ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and other IBD. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dietitians work as one team on treatment matched to each patient, with support aimed at quality of life. The centre's remit is IBD diagnosis and treatment, education of IBD healthcare staff, and IBD research, and its published membership includes a paediatrician, nurses, pharmacists and nutrition staff alongside gastroenterologists.
2 named clinicians
Tokyo
Kitasato University Kitasato Institute Hospital
The IBD Center is the hospital’s unit for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, described by its gastroenterology department as one of Japan’s bases for the diagnosis, treatment and study of refractory inflammatory bowel disease. Diagnosis combines endoscopy with capsule endoscopy and intestinal ultrasound alongside blood and stool inflammation markers, an approach the centre presents as accurate while placing less burden on the patient. Doctors, nurses, registered dietitians, pharmacists, laboratory technicians and administrative staff hold a weekly conference on patients together, and the centre also helps patients apply for medical cost assistance.
2 named clinicians
Tokyo
Teikyo University Hospital (帝京大学医学部附属病院)
The IBD Center was launched in June 2017 by the hospital's internal medicine and surgery departments together, and treats all inflammatory bowel disease, centred on ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. New patients book with a named colorectal surgeon or a named gastroenterologist, and a dedicated IBD clinic runs every Thursday afternoon by appointment. Patients with a referral letter book their first visit through the hospital's medical liaison office.
2 named clinicians
Yokohama
Yokohama City University Medical Center
Physicians and surgeons work as a single team covering adults and children (mainly upper-primary age and above), including refractory and severe disease. Alongside ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease the centre names intestinal Behçet’s disease, non-specific multiple small-intestinal ulcers and Cronkhite–Canada syndrome as conditions it treats, and accepts undiagnosed enteritis and intestinal ulcers. Beyond diagnosis and treatment it states it supports nutrition, drug therapy, pregnancy and birth, and school and working life. Internal medicine is referral-only, so a referral letter and an appointment are needed.
4 named clinicians
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