Private hospital, Mita, Minato. First-visit reception 8:00 to 11:30.
Tokyo Saiseikai Central Hospital
A JMIP-accredited hospital in Minato with interpreter staff on site, three minutes from Akabanebashi and walkable from Roppongi and Tokyo Tower.
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東京都済生会中央病院
Show the Japanese name above. Three minutes from Akabanebashi on the Toei Oedo line, or ten from Shibakoen on the Toei Mita line and Azabu-juban on the Namboku line — in Mita, below Tokyo Tower.
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- TypePrivate — Saiseikai, a national public-interest welfare foundation rather than a commercial operator
- Address1-4-17 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073
- Switchboard+81 3 3451 8211
- Websitesaichu.jp
- HoursFirst-visit reception 8:00 to 11:30
- LanguagesThe hospital states it has interpreter staff and directs patients to the ground-floor general counter
- 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
Run by Saiseikai, a national welfare foundation rather than a commercial group, and one of the eleven Tokyo institutions holding JMIP accreditation for international patients. It states plainly that it has interpreter staff, and it sits in Minato, within reach of Roppongi, Azabu and Tokyo Tower.
What it is known for
Being both central and prepared for foreign patients. Saiseikai Central holds JMIP accreditation, Japan’s national certification for accepting international patients, and it says on its own site that it has interpreter staff and that a patient who needs one should ask at the ground-floor general counter. That is a plainer offer than most Tokyo hospitals make. It is operated by Saiseikai, a public-interest welfare foundation with hospitals across the country, so it is private in the legal sense without being a commercial venture.
Who it suits
A visitor staying in Minato — Roppongi, Azabu, Shiba, Hamamatsucho, Tokyo Tower — who needs a hospital and would rather not conduct the visit entirely in Japanese. It suits a planned visit better than a midnight one: first-visit reception runs from 8:00 to 11:30, and the interpreter arrangement is a counter you ask at rather than a service that meets you at the door. For anything that cannot wait for morning, call 119 instead.
Cost and insurance
A visitor pays the full amount, since Japan’s national health insurance does not cover them. The hospital publishes its no-referral surcharge on its own site: 7,700 yen for a first visit made without a letter from a clinic, and 11,000 yen on a holiday or outside normal hours, both on top of the treatment itself. That surcharge does not apply to an emergency arriving by ambulance. Payment is settled at the end of the visit; ask for an itemised receipt and an English medical certificate, which your insurer will require.
Getting there
In Mita, at the foot of Tokyo Tower. Three minutes on foot from the Akabanebashi exit of Akabanebashi station on the Toei Oedo line; ten minutes from exit A-2 at Shibakoen on the Toei Mita line, or from exit 3 at Azabu-juban on the Tokyo Metro Namboku line. Show a taxi driver the Japanese name above. Telephone the switchboard on +81 3 3451 8211 before a non-urgent visit to confirm the department and the interpreter arrangement.
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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