Private hospital, Nanakuma, Jonan-ku.
Fukuoka University Hospital
A 771-bed private university hospital on the Nanakuma subway line, with a round-the-clock critical care centre and staff who can support a patient in English or Mandarin.
Ambulance and fire: 119. Police: 110. Emergency consultation: #7119.
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福岡大学病院
“福岡大学病院” — Fukuoka Daigaku Byoin, or simply Fukudai Byoin. Nanakuma Line subway to Fukudai-mae, direct from Hakata Station in about twenty minutes and from Tenjin-Minami in about sixteen; the hospital is at exit 2.
Fukuoka Daigaku Byoin, usually shortened in speech to 福大病院, Fukudai Byoin.
- TypePrivate — university hospital of Fukuoka University, a private university; designated an advanced treatment hospital (特定機能病院)
- BedsAbout 771
- Address7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180
- Switchboard+81 92 801 1011
- Websitehop.fukuoka-u.ac.jp
- HoursEmergency and critical care centre open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, on the hospital’s own statement
- LanguagesJapanese; the hospital says it can provide staff who speak English or Mandarin and can arrange a professional medical interpreter at a charge, but asks patients who cannot manage in Japanese to bring someone with them
- AccreditationAccredited by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (日本医療機能評価機構), the domestic hospital accreditor — not JCI or JMIP
- Opened1973
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
The teaching hospital of Fukuoka University, out at Nanakuma in the south-west of the city but joined to Hakata Station and Tenjin-Minami by the Nanakuma subway line. It has 771 beds, is designated an advanced treatment hospital, and runs an emergency and critical care centre that its site says works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with a rooftop helipad. It is also the hospital here that says most plainly what it can do for a patient who does not speak Japanese.
What it is known for
Emergency medicine and a direct subway line. Fukuoka University Hospital opened in 1973, holds 771 beds — 731 general and 40 psychiatric — and has been designated an advanced treatment hospital since 1994. Its emergency and critical care centre is a tertiary unit that its own site says runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with a rooftop helipad, a doctor car and an ECMO car, and it treats several hundred critically ill patients a year. The hospital is also accredited by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care, the domestic hospital accreditor.
Who it suits
A visitor staying anywhere along the Nanakuma line, and anyone who needs to be understood. The hospital publishes a guide for international patients: it asks people who cannot hold a consultation in Japanese to bring an interpreter, but says it can provide staff who speak English or Mandarin, and can arrange a professional medical interpreter at a charge. Patients who live abroad are asked to make contact before turning up, and it warns that some departments work by appointment only, so a walk-in can be turned away. It is the most approachable of the three, which is not the same as an open door.
Cost and insurance
Priced at twice the domestic tariff for anyone outside Japan’s public health insurance — ¥20 per treatment point against the standard ¥10 — with the referral surcharges on top. A first visit without a letter from a clinic adds ¥7,700; a repeat visit made after you have been referred elsewhere adds ¥3,300; a first visit outside normal opening hours adds a further ¥11,000, waived if you are admitted or arrive with an emergency referral. Settle at the cashier and claim afterwards, and ask for an itemised receipt and an English medical certificate before you go.
Getting there
The Nanakuma Line subway runs from Hakata Station to Fukudai-mae in about twenty minutes and from Tenjin-Minami in about sixteen; the hospital is by exit 2. Nishitetsu buses stop at Fukudai-byoin, roughly forty minutes from Tenjin and an hour from Hakata Station. First-visit reception is 8.30 to 12.00 on weekdays, repeat visits until 15.00, and the hospital is closed at weekends, on public holidays, on 15 August and from 29 December to 3 January — so a Saturday problem here is an emergency-department problem. The switchboard is +81 92 801 1011.
Details checked against the hospital’s own website, September 2026. Call before a non-urgent visit; in an emergency call 119 or the hospital’s own emergency line above. Travel information, not medical advice.
The other 2 hospitals in Fukuoka
- Kyushu University HospitalPublic, about 1,242 beds, Maidashi-Kyudaibyoin-mae station.
- Kyushu Medical CenterPublic, about 694 beds, Jigyohama, by Ohori Park.