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大阪医療センター
Say “Osaka Iryo Senta” and show the driver 大阪医療センター. Osaka Metro Tanimachi and Chuo lines to Tanimachi 4-chome, exit 11 — the hospital is at the exit, opposite Osaka Castle Park.
Read “Osaka Iryo Senta”; the hospital’s English pages still use its former name, Osaka National Hospital.
- TypePublic — National Hospital Organization
- BedsAbout 605
- FormerlyOsaka National Hospital
- Address2-1-14 Hoenzaka, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540-0006
- Switchboard+81 6 6942 1331
- Return-visit appointments, weekdays 13:00 to 16:00+81 6 6946 3519
- Websiteosaka.hosp.go.jp
- HoursDesignated an emergency and critical care centre and a tertiary emergency hospital; the site does not publish emergency-department hours
- LanguagesJapanese; the hospital publishes what it charges patients without Japanese insurance in fifteen languages, English among them, but states nothing about English-speaking staff
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
A National Hospital Organization hospital at Hoenzaka, on the south-west corner of Osaka Castle Park and directly at exit 11 of two subway lines. It runs an emergency and critical care centre designated for the most serious cases, and it takes first-time patients between 8.30 and noon on weekdays. Its English is thin — the page for foreign patients is written in Japanese — but it publishes what it will charge a patient with no Japanese insurance, in fifteen languages.
What it is known for
Emergency medicine, and its address. Osaka Medical Center is one of the National Hospital Organization’s hospitals, 605 beds on a compact campus at Hoenzaka, designated both an emergency and critical care centre and a tertiary emergency hospital — the tier that receives the most serious cases an ambulance can bring. Intensive care, stroke and cardiac units sit inside those 605 beds. For a visitor the second fact matters as much as the first: the hospital stands at exit 11 of Tanimachi 4-chome station, on the corner of Osaka Castle Park, in the middle of the city.
Who it suits
Anyone with something serious, anyone staying near Osaka Castle, Tanimachi or Honmachi, and anyone without a referral letter who would rather not pay 11,000 yen for arriving without one — the surcharge here is the smallest of the three. First visits are taken at the ground-floor reception between 8.30 and noon, weekdays only; the hospital is closed at weekends, on public holidays and from 29 December to 3 January. It suits you least if you need to be understood in English, because it claims no interpreting service of its own.
Cost and insurance
A patient without Japanese national health insurance is billed at twenty yen for each treatment point plus consumption tax — twice the ten yen a point the insured system counts — and the hospital has published that method, in fifteen languages, since 2018. Arriving without a referral letter adds 7,000 yen plus tax. Pay at the end of the visit and claim afterwards; assume the hospital will not bill a foreign insurer directly. Ask for an itemised receipt, and ask what an English medical certificate costs and how long it takes before you need one.
Getting there
Exit 11 at Tanimachi 4-chome puts you at the gate. The station is on both the Tanimachi and the Chuo subway lines, which between them reach Umeda, Morinomiya, the port and — with one change, at Tanimachi 9-chome or Honmachi — Namba. Osaka Castle Park is across the road, so a visitor taken ill sightseeing is already there. The old name, Osaka National Hospital, is still used on the hospital’s own English pages and by taxi drivers. Ring the switchboard on +81 6 6942 1331 before setting out for a first visit.
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 Osaka
- Osaka Red Cross HospitalPublic, about 826 beds, Tennoji-ku, seven minutes from Tsuruhashi.
- Sumitomo HospitalPrivate, about 496 beds, Nakanoshima, west of the Umeda hotels.