A Nagoya salon providing intravenous drips containing various vitamins and other health supplements is attracting many businesspeople as a quick way to get rid of work-induced fatigue.
Called the "intravenous drip bar," a part of Nagoya Station Clinic in front of Nagoya Station, the salon opened in spring 2008 after the clinic received many inquiries from fatigued businesspeople about how to relieve tiredness when they went for their annual medical checkup.
The process lasts for about 10 minutes. "It is faster and more effective than taking medicine, said Mizunobu Kinoshita, 40, director of the clinic. "The substance used in a drip is the one that originally exists in people's body, so it wouldn't impose any burden," he said.