ichigaohp.jp

What It Is

Ichigao Hospital is a community hospital in Aoba-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the medical corporation Seijinkai. The hospital has 120 beds and clearly positions itself as a “post-acute care receiver,” meaning it accepts patients who still need rehabilitation, recuperation, or ongoing medical management after acute-stage treatment. Its focus is more on elderly care, convalescent hospitalization, and long-term care wards rather than emergency care or highly specialized services found at large tertiary hospitals.

Core Features

The hospital has multiple departments, including internal medicine, respiratory medicine, neurology, surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, urology, rehabilitation medicine, and dental/oral surgery. It is equipped with CT, MRI, endoscopy, X-ray, a laboratory testing room, operating rooms, and rehabilitation training facilities. Its inpatient services include a 60-bed long-term care ward and a 60-bed convalescent rehabilitation ward, making it suitable for patients who still require functional recovery, long-term care, or medical management after acute treatment. The official website also provides information on comprehensive medical checkups, health examinations, vaccinations, medical safety management, infection control measures, and visitation rules.

Pricing

Costs are mainly calculated based on Japan’s medical insurance system, the patient’s co-payment ratio, and the specific medical services provided. The website discloses some hospitalization-related fees: meals in the long-term care ward cost 460 yen per meal, and accommodation fees for patients aged 65 and above are 370 yen per day. For room surcharge fees, four-bed rooms have no additional room charge, two-bed rooms cost about 2,200 to 2,750 yen per day, and private rooms cost about 4,400 to 8,800 yen per day. Outpatient visits, examinations, surgeries, and rehabilitation costs need to be confirmed based on insurance coverage and the actual procedures involved.

Pros and Cons

The main advantages are its clear positioning and suitability for rehabilitation and long-term care needs. The website provides fairly detailed information on access, wards, fees, and safety systems. It is also about a 7-minute walk from Ichigao Station, offering decent local accessibility. The downsides are that the website is almost entirely in Japanese, making it unfriendly to foreign patients; there is no obvious mention of online booking, online payment, telemedicine, or similar digital features; and the hospital is limited in scale, so complex acute conditions or highly specialized diseases may still require transfer to a larger general hospital.

Who It’s For

It is suitable for residents of Aoba-ku, Yokohama and nearby areas, elderly patients with chronic diseases, people who need rehabilitation transfer after acute-stage treatment, and families looking for health checkups, comprehensive medical checkups, or basic multi-department outpatient care. It is also useful as a reference for users living in Japan who need to find recuperation or rehabilitation beds for older family members.

Access from China

This is the official website of a Japanese hospital, with mostly static content, and it is generally accessible directly from mainland China. However, the service itself is primarily aimed at local patients in Japan, with language, insurance, and care procedures centered on Japanese residents.