🏥Health & Medical
What You Can Buy at a Pharmacy
A simple guide to over-the-counter medicine and prescription medicine in Japan.
Japanese pharmacies and drugstores sell many over-the-counter medicines, but the product names are often different from what Americans know.
You can often buy
- Cold medicine
- Pain relievers
- Stomach medicine
- Allergy medicine
- Basic topical treatments
If you receive a prescription from a clinic or hospital, you usually take it to a dispensing pharmacy nearby.