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JA広島総合病院
Say “JA Hiroshima Sogo Byoin”, or show the driver JA広島総合病院. The Hiroden Miyajima line stops at JA Hiroshima Byoin-mae at the gate, four stops back from Hiroden-Miyajimaguchi and the ferry; JR Miyauchi-Kushido is about ten minutes’ walk.
JA Hiroshima Sogo Byoin. The tram stop at the gate is JA広島病院前, JA Hiroshima Byoin-mae.
- TypePublic in the Japanese sense — opened by the Hiroshima prefectural federation of agricultural co-operatives for health and welfare, JA Hiroshima Kouseiren, rather than by the state, the prefecture or the city
- BedsAbout 460
- Address1-3-3 Jigozen, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 738-8503, Japan
- Switchboard+81 829 36 3111
- Hatsukaichi holiday and night emergency clinic, inside the hospital+81 829 36 3199
- Websitehirobyo.jp
- HoursRegional emergency and critical care centre, which the hospital says responds 24 hours a day, 365 days a year but asks that you telephone before coming. Outpatient reception weekdays 8:30 to 17:00; closed Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and 30 December to 3 January
- LanguagesJapanese. The hospital publishes nothing about English-speaking staff, interpreters or foreign patients, and its website has no English version
- Opened1947
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
The hospital that covers Miyajima. It stands at Jigozen in Hatsukaichi with its own stop on the tram line that ends at the Miyajima ferry, holds 460 beds including sixteen in a regional emergency and critical care centre, and says that centre responds around the clock, every day of the year, to the secondary cases needing admission or surgery and to tertiary ones — heart attack, stroke, head injury, multiple trauma. It asks anyone hoping to be seen to telephone first. The town’s holiday and night emergency clinic for milder problems sits inside the same building.
What it is known for
Emergency cover for the western side of the bay, Miyajima included. JA Hiroshima General Hospital opened in December 1947 and now holds 460 beds, sixteen of them in a regional emergency and critical care centre which the hospital says works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, taking both secondary cases that need admission or surgery and tertiary ones — acute myocardial infarction, stroke, head injury, multiple trauma. It is also a regional medical support hospital, one of the prefecture’s disaster base hospitals and a regional cancer centre. Since April 2020 the Hatsukaichi holiday and night emergency clinic, run with the local medical association for milder problems, has operated inside the same building.
Who it suits
Anyone taken ill or hurt on Miyajima, at the ferry terminals, or along the coast west of Hiroshima, and anyone staying out at Miyajimaguchi rather than in the city. The island itself has no hospital, only Miyajima Clinic, which covers internal medicine and surgery and is closed on Sundays and public holidays and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons; the island’s tourist association says anything beyond that clinic means crossing to a mainland hospital, and that a serious case goes by the island fire station’s rescue boat. This is the mainland hospital that crossing leads to. It suits you least if you need English, because the hospital publishes nothing at all about foreign patients or interpreters.
Cost and insurance
A visitor pays the whole amount, as everywhere in Japan. A first visit without a referral letter carries a selection fee of 7,700 yen including tax, and the hospital warns that there are departments which will not see a patient without a letter at all — so telephone the switchboard before you set out rather than arriving and hoping. It takes cash and credit cards, and it does not discount its car park. The 119 ambulance and the ride are free; what happens after you arrive is not, and an admission runs into hundreds of thousands of yen. Ask for an itemised receipt on the day, and ask early about an English medical certificate, which is a separate paid document.
Getting there
The tram stops at the gate. The Hiroden Miyajima line, which runs from central Hiroshima out to the ferry pier, has a stop called JA Hiroshima Byoin-mae directly outside — four stops short of Hiroden-Miyajimaguchi, so from the island it is one short ride back up the line. On JR, Miyauchi-Kushido on the Sanyo line is about ten minutes’ walk and about twenty minutes out from Hiroshima Station. The Hatsukaichi Sakura community bus also stops at the gate. For anything urgent, dial 119 rather than travelling yourself; on the island, that call brings the fire station’s boat.
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.
- Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-bomb Survivors HospitalPublic, about 565 beds, Sendamachi, with its own tram stop.