Public hospital, Sendamachi, Naka-ku.
Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital
A 565-bed Red Cross hospital at Sendamachi with its own tram stop — the one of the three that states you can be seen without a referral letter.
Ambulance and fire: 119. Police: 110. Emergency consultation: #7119.
Show this to your driver
広島赤十字・原爆病院
Say “Nisseki Byoin”, or show the driver 広島赤十字・原爆病院. Hiroden tram lines 1, 3 and 7 stop at Nisseki-byoin-mae, two minutes from the door, and line 1 runs there directly from JR Hiroshima Station.
Hiroshima Sekijuji Genbaku Byoin. The tram and bus stop at the door is 日赤病院前, Nisseki Byoin-mae.
- TypePublic in the Japanese sense — a hospital of the Japanese Red Cross Society, run neither by the state nor by the city but counted with Japan’s public medical institutions
- BedsAbout 565
- Address1-9-6 Sendamachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730-8619, Japan
- Switchboard+81 82 241 3111
- Websitehiroshima-med.jrc.or.jp
- HoursA designated secondary emergency institution. The hospital says a night-time emergency visit is possible but asks you to telephone before coming at night or on a holiday, because it gives priority to serious cases arriving by ambulance and may send a milder problem to an on-call doctor instead. First-visit outpatient reception weekdays 8:00 to 11:00
- LanguagesJapanese, with a short English section of its site covering the hospital outline, its atomic-bomb work and how to get there. It states nothing about English-speaking staff or medical interpreters
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A Japanese Red Cross hospital in Sendamachi, south of the centre, with 565 general beds and thirty-five departments, and the atomic-bomb survivors’ hospital joined to it under the same name. It is a designated secondary emergency institution, a regional medical support hospital, one of the prefecture’s disaster base hospitals and a regional cancer centre. Its answer to the question every visitor asks is unusually direct: you can be seen without a referral letter, and in principle you pay 7,700 yen for it. Its own FAQ also publishes the deposit it takes from a foreign national with no Japanese insurance card at a night or holiday emergency visit.
What it is known for
Two things, and the second is why it is on this page. The first is what it carries in its name: this is the Red Cross hospital of the city that needed one most, and the atomic-bomb survivors’ hospital is part of the same institution. The second is its front door. Where most large Japanese hospitals ask for a referral letter, this one answers the question in its own FAQ — you can be seen without one, and in principle you pay 7,700 yen as a selection fee. Behind that sit 565 general beds and thirty-five departments, designation as a secondary emergency institution, a regional medical support hospital, a disaster base hospital and a regional cancer centre. It claims neither JCI nor JMIP accreditation.
Who it suits
Anyone staying between Hiroshima Station and the southern side of the centre, anyone with no referral letter who would rather pay the fee than spend a morning finding a clinic, and anyone who wants a hospital reached by a single tram. It suits you less at night. The hospital says an evening emergency visit is possible but asks you to telephone first, because it gives priority to serious cases brought in by ambulance and may direct a milder problem to an on-call doctor instead. First-visit reception is 8:00 to 11:00 on weekdays. It publishes no English-speaking staff and no interpreter service, so take a Japanese speaker with you if you possibly can.
Cost and insurance
A visitor pays the full amount, having no Japanese insurance behind them, and a first visit without a referral letter adds 7,700 yen. The figure that matters more is the deposit. For a holiday or night emergency consultation the hospital collects an estimate up front, because it cannot calculate the bill at the time: 10,000 or 20,000 yen from most patients, but 100,000 yen from a foreign national with no Japanese public insurance card, and it publishes that plainly. Its payment machines take cash and credit cards between 8:25 and 22:00, but not electronic money or barcode payment. Settle and claim afterwards, and if you need an English medical certificate ask at once, because the hospital says one takes about two weeks.
Getting there
It has a tram stop of its own. Hiroshima Electric Railway lines 1, 3 and 7 all call at Nisseki-byoin-mae, two minutes from the door, and Takanobashi is three minutes away on the same lines; line 1 runs there directly from JR Hiroshima Station. By bus, route 21 from the station takes about twenty minutes and route 50 about ten, both to the Nisseki Byoin-mae stop, three minutes’ walk from the gate. A taxi from JR Hiroshima Station takes about ten minutes. The Peace Memorial Park is a little over a kilometre north-west — a comfortable walk in good health, and no distance at all in a taxi.
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 Hiroshima
- Hiroshima Citizens HospitalPublic, about 743 beds, Motomachi, by Hiroshima Castle.
- JA Hiroshima General HospitalPublic, about 460 beds, Hatsukaichi, four tram stops from the Miyajima ferry.