Private hospital, Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa.
NTT Medical Center Tokyo
The Gotanda hospital that says in writing it will see patients without a referral letter — 594 beds, JCI and JMIP accredited, with a night and weekend emergency centre.
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NTT東日本関東病院
Show a driver NTT東日本関東病院. It is five minutes on foot from Gotanda station on the Toei Asakusa line and about seven from the JR and Ikegami line station, with a shuttle bus from Gotanda.
- TypePrivate — run by NTT East, and a Tokyo-designated secondary emergency hospital
- BedsAbout 594
- Address5-9-22 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-8625
- Switchboard+81 3 3448 6111
- Websitenmct.ntt-east.co.jp
- HoursEmergency centre staffed around the clock outside weekday clinic hours and at weekends, on public holidays and over the New Year; during weekday clinic hours it takes ambulance arrivals while walk-in patients are seen in the ordinary clinics
- LanguagesAn International Office, and English and Chinese versions of its own site
- AccreditationJCI (Joint Commission International) and JMIP (Japan Medical Service Accreditation for International Patients), both stated by the hospital; the JMIP entry also appears on the accreditor’s register
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
A 594-bed general hospital in Gotanda run by NTT East, the telephone company, and the rare Tokyo hospital holding both JCI accreditation and JMIP accreditation for the treatment of foreign patients. It has been a Tokyo-designated secondary emergency hospital since 1993, runs an International Office, and states plainly that patients who arrive without a referral letter can still be seen — for a surcharge of ¥7,700.
What it is known for
Being the Tokyo hospital that says, in writing, that it will see you without a referral letter. NTT Medical Center Tokyo is a 594-bed general hospital in Gotanda run by NTT East, the telephone company, and it holds both JCI accreditation and JMIP accreditation for the treatment of foreign patients — a pairing few hospitals in the city can claim. It has been a Tokyo-designated secondary emergency hospital since September 1993, runs an International Office, and publishes English and Chinese versions of its own site.
Who it suits
Anyone staying around Shinagawa, Gotanda, Meguro or the hotel belt in the south of the city who needs a hospital rather than a clinic, and anyone without a referral letter who wants the smallest surcharge of the three on this page. Outside weekday clinic hours, and at weekends and on public holidays, the emergency centre is staffed around the clock across five specialty rotas; during weekday clinic hours it handles the ambulance arrivals while people who walk in are seen in the ordinary departments instead.
Cost and insurance
Arriving without a referral letter costs ¥7,700 on top of the treatment, and the hospital states plainly that patients without one may still be seen. Its own pages warn that anyone without a Japanese insurance card is treated as a self-paying patient, and that a case judged not urgent may be charged a selection fee if it is seen outside clinic hours, even after arriving by ambulance. The separate medical-travel service, arranged through a guarantor agency and quoting ¥110,000 for a pre-travel assessment, is a different thing entirely and not what an ill visitor needs.
Getting there
In Higashi-Gotanda: five minutes on foot from Gotanda station on the Toei Asakusa line, about seven from the JR and Tokyu Ikegami line station, and a shuttle bus also runs from Gotanda. That puts it roughly ten minutes from Shinagawa and fifteen from Shibuya on the Yamanote line, which is what makes it convenient for the southern hotels. Its emergency page invites people to telephone for advice at night and at weekends before setting out, and asks you to bring any medicine record you have.
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.
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