Japan's best-designed clinics

A clinic that doesn't feel like a clinic, in plaster and wood

A health check-up centre with a library, led by a 35-metre axis of light

A park-like clinic where people gather under an elm

A park-like waiting area behind glass open to the city

Oak and white: a dermatology clinic for families

A glass-walled eye clinic that designs the shape of light itself

A carefully made eye clinic of tactile surfaces and indirect light

A Japanese-style women's clinic grown from a paper crane and hemp-leaf pattern

A curved marble-look reception and an inner waiting room with leaf-pattern walls

A high-ceilinged waiting room lit through glass, and a kids' space with cloud patterns

A herringbone floor and wood-grain walls: a health-check centre with a hotel-like reception

A hotel-like clinic with a marble-look reception and seats facing the windows

Window counter seats and sofas around a round column

A white interior with a curved counter and coffered ceiling

Stone-look walls, a bronze reception and partitioned private booths

A marble-look tiled reception and a black stone-look waiting wall