Botox for wrinkles · Shimbashi & Ginza
Forehead, frown and crow’s feet lines, from ¥25,000 per area. The injection itself takes about five minutes and there is no real downtime — most people go straight back to their day. Open until 21:00 on weekdays, one minute from Shimbashi Station.
Botox for wrinkles costs ¥25,000 per area at Shinbashi Ginza Swift Clinic — frown lines, crow’s feet or the nose — and ¥28,000 for the forehead. The injection takes about five minutes, and you are usually in and out in around half an hour, on the same visit as the consultation. The effect starts to show in three to four days, peaks at about two weeks, and lasts roughly three to four months. There is no real downtime. We use Botulax, a Korean-made botulinum toxin preparation — it is not approved as a pharmaceutical in Japan, and what that means is set out in full below. The clinic is one minute from Shimbashi Station and one stop from Ginza on the Ginza line.
Priced per area, tax included. There is no separate injection fee and no course to sign up to.
| Area | What it does | Price (incl. tax) |
|---|---|---|
| Forehead | Softens the horizontal lines that show when you raise your eyebrows | ¥28,000 |
| Frown lines (glabella) | Softens the vertical lines between the eyebrows | ¥25,000 |
| Crow’s feet | Softens the lines that fan out at the outer corner of the eye | ¥25,000 |
| Nose (bunny lines) | Softens the diagonal creases across the bridge when you scrunch your nose | ¥25,000 |
| Jawline (masseter) | Relaxes the jaw muscle for a narrower lower face | ¥28,000 |
| The area most people start with (forehead) | ¥28,000 | |
Prices include tax and are per area. Treating more than one area on the same visit is charged per area. Other treatments are listed on the pricing page.
Botulinum toxin works on expression lines — also called dynamic wrinkles — the creases made by muscles pulling on the skin, which deepen over years of the same movement. It relaxes the muscle so the skin above it creases less. It does not fill a static wrinkle that is already etched in at rest, and it does not treat sagging or sun damage; those need something else, and the doctor will say so rather than sell you an injection that will not help.
The horizontal lines that appear when you raise your eyebrows. This is where most people start. Dosing here needs care — too much and the brow feels heavy, so say at the consultation how much movement you want to keep.
The vertical “11” between the eyebrows that makes a neutral face read as angry or tired. This is the area with the longest clinical track record for botulinum toxin.
The lines that fan out from the outer corner of the eye when you smile. Treated so that the smile still reads as a smile.
The diagonal creases across the bridge of the nose that show when you scrunch it or smile hard. Often treated together with the frown lines.
Bruising at an injection site is the most common visible after-effect. It is not usual, but if it happens it fades over a few days and can be covered with makeup.
Weekday evening slots are the ones people use most. Last booking for a first visit is 30 minutes before closing, so a 20:30 booking on a weekday works.
We use Botulax, a botulinum toxin type A preparation made by Hugel in South Korea. Korean-made preparations are widely used in aesthetic practice, and Botulax is one of the most established of them. It is not approved as a pharmaceutical in Japan, and Japanese regulation requires us to set out exactly what that means. Please read this before you decide.
Every doctor here completes in-house training in botulinum toxin injection before treating patients. Injecting is not a single technique — the dose and the depth differ by area and by how strong the muscle is, and the difference between a natural result and a heavy brow is a matter of both.
What that means for your appointment: the doctor will ask how much movement you want to keep, and will tell you where an injection is unlikely to help. It is far easier to add a little more at the follow-up than to wait out too much, so we start conservatively unless you ask otherwise.
We ask you back about two weeks later, at no charge, to see how it has settled. Two weeks is when the effect has reached its peak, so it is the right point to look at the result properly rather than guess at it.
At that visit the doctor checks how the areas have responded and whether it has come out evenly. If you would like more, that is a further treatment and is charged — we do not promise free additional injections, and we would rather say so plainly than imply otherwise. What is free is the review itself.
If anything worries you before then, message us on LINE and the doctor will advise.
These are prescription medicines and the doctor goes through this with you before anything is injected.
Tell the doctor everything you take. Where it is not safe to treat, we will say so rather than treat anyway. If you have had botulinum toxin at another clinic, tell us the date, the area and the preparation — an interval is needed before treating again.
Weekdays 14:00–21:00. Weekends and public holidays 10:00–18:00. Most aesthetic clinics in central Tokyo close at 19:00 or earlier, which makes an after-work appointment difficult if you work standard hours.
1-8-4 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004 — Maruchu Building 7F-B. Shimbashi Station is served by the JR lines, the Tokyo Metro Ginza line, the Toei Asakusa line and the Yurikamome, and the clinic is one minute on foot from all of them.
From Ginza Station it is a single stop on the Ginza line, about two minutes. From Ginza 8-chōme it is around an eight-minute walk, so you can come on foot if you are already shopping in the area.
| Station | Lines | On foot |
|---|---|---|
| Shimbashi | Tokyo Metro Ginza line | 1 min |
| Shimbashi | JR Yamanote, Keihin-Tohoku, Tokaido, Yokosuka | 1 min |
| Shimbashi | Toei Asakusa line | 1 min |
| Shimbashi | Yurikamome | approx. 2 min |
| Shiodome | Toei Oedo line, Yurikamome | approx. 6 min |
| Ginza | Tokyo Metro Ginza, Marunouchi, Hibiya | approx. 10 min |
No health insurance card and no ID are required. This is self-pay treatment, so Japanese national health insurance is not used — we take your name and how to contact you. Nothing is reported to an employer or a family insurance plan.
Botulinum toxin is not only for wrinkles. These are treated here too.
| Treatment | What it does | Price (incl. tax) |
|---|---|---|
| Jawline (masseter) | Relaxes the jaw muscle for a narrower lower face | ¥28,000 |
| Underarm sweating | Reduces sweat volume and the odour that comes with it | ¥20,000 campaign price, normally ¥89,000 |
| Shoulder & neck tension | For persistent shoulder stiffness | ¥20,000 campaign price, normally ¥89,000 |
| Hay fever | Applied inside the nose to reduce a running nose and itching during pollen season | ¥8,900 |
Underarm sweating and shoulder tension are currently offered at a campaign price. Campaign prices can end without notice — the price confirmed at your consultation is the one that applies. Sweating treatment typically lasts longer than line treatment, often through a summer.
Jawline · masseter
Treatment: botulinum toxin injected into the masseter muscle on both sides.
Cost: ¥28,000 including tax. Self-pay — Japanese national health insurance does not apply.
Main risks and side effects: bruising, swelling and redness at the injection site; chewing can feel weaker for a time; asymmetry between the two sides. The muscle recovers over three to four months, so the effect is not permanent.
This is one patient, photographed before and after treatment. It is not a guarantee of any result — how much changes, and how quickly, differs from person to person, and depends on how strong the muscle is to begin with. The full list of side effects and of the people we will not treat is set out below.
You can be seen here without speaking Japanese. Consultations are handled with a translation app and written notes rather than by an English-speaking doctor, which works well for treatments where the decision is straightforward — repeat prescriptions, testing, hair removal — and is slower where you have a complicated history to explain. Treatment information, pricing and access details on these pages are in English. The booking system and the pre-visit questionnaire are in Japanese, so message us on LINE beforehand if you would like help completing them.
¥25,000 per area for frown lines, crow’s feet or the nose, and ¥28,000 for the forehead or the jawline. Prices include tax and are per area — treating two areas on the same visit is charged as two areas. There is no separate injection fee.
We use Botulax, made by Hugel in South Korea. It is not approved as a pharmaceutical in Japan — it is imported personally by the physician under their own responsibility, and is not covered by Japan’s public relief system for adverse drug reactions. The same active ingredient is approved by Korea’s MFDS and, as Letybo, in Europe and by the US FDA. Japan does have an approved alternative, Botox Vista; tell the doctor if domestic approval matters to you.
The injection takes about five minutes, and you are usually in and out in around 30 minutes including the consultation. Treatment is normally done at the same visit, so you do not need to come twice.
Not in most cases. You can go back to work the same day. Avoid rubbing the area, and leave heavy exercise, alcohol and a hot bath until the next day. If a bruise appears at an injection site it fades over a few days and can be covered with makeup.
The wrinkle starts to soften in three to four days, and the effect reaches its peak at about two weeks. From there it lasts roughly three to four months, after which movement gradually returns and the treatment is repeated if you want to keep the effect.
Yes — the review at about two weeks is free, and that is when the effect has peaked, so it is the right time to look at the result. To be clear about what that does and does not include: if you want more injected, that is a further treatment and is charged. We do not offer free additional injections.
That is a dosing question. Say clearly at the consultation how much movement you want to keep — it is far easier to add a little more at the follow-up than to wait out too much, so we start conservatively unless you ask otherwise.
Yes. Weekdays we are open until 21:00, and weekends and public holidays 10:00–18:00. Last booking for a first visit is 30 minutes before closing. Because there is no real downtime, an evening appointment and work the next morning is the usual pattern.
Neither. This is self-pay treatment, so Japanese national health insurance is not used — we take your name and how to contact you. No residence certificate and no My Number card. Because there is no insurance claim, nothing is reported to an employer or a family plan.
There is a brief sting. The area is cooled first with a very fine needle used, which most people find manageable. A topical anaesthetic is available at additional cost if you would prefer it — ask at the consultation.
Yes, but an interval is needed. Tell us the date, the area and the preparation used — depending on when you were last treated, we may ask you to wait before injecting the same area again.
Yes. There is no English-speaking doctor here — the consultation is handled with a translation app and written notes. The booking form and the pre-visit questionnaire are in Japanese, so message us on LINE beforehand and we will help you complete them.
From ¥25,000 per area, about five minutes to inject, no insurance card needed. Open until 21:00 on weekdays, one minute from Shimbashi Station.
