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東京都立墨東病院
Show the Japanese name above. The hospital is in Kotobashi, in Sumida ward on the east side of central Tokyo — the side of the river with Asakusa and the Skytree — and the map link opens the exact entrance.
Tokyo Toritsu Bokuto Byoin
- TypePublic — Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital Organisation
- Address4-23-15 Kotobashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-8575
- Switchboard+81 3 3633 6151
- Appointments+81 3 3633 5511
- Websitetmhp.jp/bokutoh
- LanguagesPublishes its site in English and Chinese and is listed as a foreign-patient-accepting institution; confirm interpreter arrangements when you book
- AccreditationJMIP, Japan Medical Service Accreditation for International Patients — listed on the accreditor’s own register for Tokyo; confirm the current term with the hospital
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
A Tokyo Metropolitan hospital in Sumida ward, and one of the eleven institutions in the capital that hold JMIP accreditation — Japan’s national certification for accepting international patients. It matters here because it covers the east of the city, where a great many visitors stay and where the other accredited hospitals are not.
What it is known for
Covering the east. Bokutoh is one of the hospitals run directly by the Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital Organisation, and it serves Sumida and the wards around it — the side of the river that holds Asakusa, Ryogoku and Tokyo Skytree. It publishes its website in English and Chinese and is listed by the national accreditation body as an institution that accepts foreign patients, which in Japan is a deliberate designation rather than an accident of location. For a visitor staying in the east of the city it is the nearest large hospital with that standing.
Who it suits
Anyone staying in Asakusa, Ryogoku, Kinshicho or the Skytree area who needs a hospital rather than a clinic, and anyone brought in from the east of the city by ambulance. Being metropolitan rather than private, it is a general public hospital: broad, busy and priced as a public institution. It is not a place to expect concierge handling, but it is one of the few in Tokyo that has formally taken on the job of treating foreign patients, and its own site is readable in English before you set out.
Cost and insurance
A visitor is not covered by Japan’s national health insurance and pays the full amount, in cash or by card at the end of the visit. Like every large Japanese hospital it levies a surcharge on a first visit made without a referral letter from a clinic; ask what it is when you telephone, because the figure differs between hospitals. That rule does not apply to a genuine emergency arriving by ambulance. Ask for an itemised receipt and an English-language medical certificate before you leave, since no insurer will settle without them.
Getting there
The hospital is at 4-23-15 Kotobashi in Sumida ward, on the eastern side of central Tokyo. Show a taxi driver the Japanese name above, or use the map link, which opens the exact entrance rather than the block. Telephone the switchboard on +81 3 3633 6151 before a non-urgent visit to confirm the department is open and what a first visit will cost; appointments are on a separate line. In an emergency call 119 and let the ambulance crew choose the hospital, which bypasses the referral rule entirely.
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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