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九州医療センター
“九州医療センター” — Kyushu Iryo Center. Airport Line subway to Tojinmachi, then about sixteen minutes on foot, or a bus from Tenjin or Hakata Station to the Kyushu Medical Center-mae stop.
Kyushu Iryo Center. The full name is 独立行政法人国立病院機構九州医療センター.
- TypePublic — National Hospital Organization, an independent administrative agency of the Japanese state; a designated community medical support hospital and Kyushu’s wide-area disaster base hospital
- BedsAbout 694
- Address1-8-1 Jigyohama, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-8563
- Switchboard and emergency outpatients+81 92 852 0700
- Websitekyushu-mc.hosp.go.jp
- HoursEmergency outpatient reception from 17.15 to 8.30 on weekdays, and from 8.30 at weekends and on public holidays through to 8.30 on the next working day
- LanguagesJapanese; the hospital’s website offers machine translation but advertises no interpreter service
- Opened1994
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
Built at Jigyohama in 1994 and run by the National Hospital Organization, this is the big public hospital on the Ohori Park and seafront side of Fukuoka: 694 beds across 42 departments, an emergency and critical care centre, and the wide-area disaster base hospital for the Kyushu block. It is the hospital an ambulance takes you to from the western half of the city. It is not, on its own account, a hospital you can walk into.
What it is known for
Emergencies and disasters. Kyushu Medical Center opened at Jigyohama in July 1994, holds 694 beds across 42 departments, and is designated both a community medical support hospital for the Fukuoka and Itoshima area and the wide-area disaster base hospital for the Kyushu block, which makes it the hospital the region falls back on when something large goes wrong. Its emergency and critical care centre covers the western half of the city — the side where Ohori Park, the seafront towers and the beach hotels are — and it is the receiving hospital for ambulances from that area.
Who it suits
Someone brought here by ambulance, and almost nobody else. The hospital states that its emergency department treats patients arriving by ambulance and patients already under its care who need emergency treatment; if you turn up on foot or by taxi it says it will see you only if you are already a patient there, and only if it can. Outpatient first visits run on referral letters and reception closes at 10.30 in the morning. Read that as a warning rather than a rejection: it is an excellent hospital, reached the way Japan intends you to reach it, which is by dialling 119.
Cost and insurance
A first visit without a referral letter costs ¥7,700 on top of the treatment, and the same ¥7,700 applies to a first consultation in the emergency department outside normal hours without one, waived if you are admitted or sent by another hospital. The hospital publishes no separate rate for patients without Japanese health insurance, but a visitor sits outside that system and pays the whole bill rather than the thirty per cent a resident pays, so an admission here is expensive. Settle at the cashier before you leave, and ask for an itemised receipt and an English medical certificate for your insurer.
Getting there
Out on the reclaimed land at Jigyohama, between Ohori Park and the bay. The Airport Line subway gets you to Tojinmachi, sixteen minutes’ walk from exit 3, or to Nishijin, eighteen minutes from exit 7; Nishitetsu buses from Tenjin and Hakata Station stop at Kyushu Medical Center-mae and take between about ten and forty minutes depending on the route. A taxi from Tenjin is quicker than either. Outpatient reception for a first visit is 8.30 to 10.30 on weekdays, extended to 11.30 if you hold a referral letter; the hospital is closed at weekends and on public holidays.
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.
- Fukuoka University HospitalPrivate, about 771 beds, Fukudai-mae, Nanakuma Line.