The Human Science Research Resources Bank (HSRRB) was established in 2000. St. Marianna University School of Medicine has been contributing in offering human tissue to HSRRB for six years by introducing a clinical research coordinator (CRC) to our novel system, though HSRRB has not been well recognized yet. We previously carried out a questionnaire surveillance to the patients and their family members who participated in this program, and also to our medical staff. Here, we undertook a similar surveillance to the general citizen.As a result of the surveillance, the recognition of HSRRB was found to be low among the general citizens, but many of them agreed to the concept of HSRRB after we explained the necessity for the tissue bank. There was no big difference between patients and their family's recognition and the citizen's.We have re-recognized the importance of providing information and education for better understanding of the tissue bank while citizens are healthy and fit. We want to provide information on the human tissue bank and perform education activities from now on, so that use of human tissue for medical research may be better understood and recognized.