J-Drama Pilgrimage | リッチマン、プアウーマン Rich Man, Poor Woman (2012) — つくば国際会議場 / Episode 1 Company Briefing

Episode 1 of リッチマン、プアウーマン / RICH MAN, POOR WOMAN, broadcast July 9, 2012, uses つくば国際会議場 (Tsukuba International Congress Center) as the venue for the NEXT INNOVATION company briefing. The Nationwide Filming Location Guide identifies the congress center specifically for 「NEXT INNOVATION会社説明会の会場」 and separately lists it among the episode-1 filming cooperators. That makes the venue a useful early-series pilgrimage stop: it belongs to the job-hunting side of the story that brings 夏井真琴 / Makoto Natsui into Toru Hyuga’s orbit, without requiring a visitor to infer any private production space beyond the documented venue. The congress center remains an active convention facility at 2-20-3 Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki; its current official site lists halls, meeting rooms and uses including company briefings. The stored coordinate is facility-level, not a claim about the exact 2012 briefing room, seat, actor position, or camera setup. Event access varies, so visitors should use only areas open to the public or to their registered event.