TSURUMI Children’s Hospice / TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers

TSURUMI Children’s Hospice (TCH) is modeled on Britain’s Helen & Douglas House and is Japan’s first community-supported hospice for children. TCH’s vision is to support children living with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses and their families by working closely with them as friends, as a world-class children’s hospice that has deep roots in the local community. The facility is located within Tsurumi Ryokuchi Flower Expo Memorial Park in Tsurumi Ward, Osaka. A part of TCH is open as a public square, functioning as a hub where children staying at the facility be able to play with neighborhood children and their families interact with the community on a daily basis, with the aim of becoming a foundation from which the entire community supports the children and their families.