NCNP Hospital
National Center Hospital,
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
病院のご案内 ・英語簡約版
Hospital Overview
Hospital Introduction
About us
Our hospital offers patient-centered care for people with psychiatric, neurological, muscular and developmental diseases. National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry is one of the five National Medical Research Centers in Japan. We are also conducting many research projects on these diseases.
Our mission is "to provide high-quality medical services for patients, while respecting their human rights." We help patients and their families to understand their diseases, and to deal with their disabilities, so that they can maintain their quality of life, and lead fruitful life.
Our hospital consists of:
- Outpatient clinics, clinical laboratory, rehabilitation unit
- Inpatient wards with 486 beds (psychiatry, neurology, child neurology, and neurosurgery, internal medicine, surgery, and orthopedics)
- ■ Main office
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TEL: 042-341-2711
＊Please be careful not to dial a wrong number.
Business Hours: 08:30～17:15
- ■ Day closed
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Saturday and Sunday, National holidays,
The year-end and new year holidays
Departments
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Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry provides evidence-based high levels of clinical diagnoses and treatment plans for patients with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mood disorders (depression or bipolar disorder etc.), dementia, sleep disorders, dependence, epilepsy.
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Neurology
Department of Neurology provides advanced and specialized medical care focused on neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia disorders such as Parkinson’s diseases, spinal cerebellar degeneration, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as immune demyelinating diseases like multiple sclerosis, and neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy and myositis.
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Child Neurology
Department of Child Neurology provides medical care for all children suspected of having brain, nerve, muscle diseases, or developmental disorders. Out of about 900 new outpatients, about 300 are the patients with epilepsy, around 100 are with muscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy, myopathy, and myositis, and about 250 have developmental disorders or sleep disorders, which together account for more than half of the total, allowing us to provide treatment based on the latest and extensive experience.
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Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery specializes in functional neurosurgery, exemplified by surgical treatment for epilepsy and deep brain stimulation (DBS), and also handles shunt surgeries for normal-pressure hydrocephalus and general neurosurgery cases such as meningiomas. In particular, epilepsy surgery is performed across all age groups, from infants to adults, boasting one of the highest numbers of surgeries in Japan.
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Internal Medicine
In Internal Medicine outpatient department, we provide diagnosis and treatment from a comprehensive internal medicine perspective for those suspected of having internal medical conditions or those who are concerned about such conditions themselves, as well as for patients who are seeing other departments within our hospital and have developed internal medical issues. If necessary, we will refer patients to specialists.
For
International
Patients
For International Patient seeking treatment, the way you receive medical care differs depending on whether you have a Japanese health insurance card or not.
International Patients with Japanese Health Insurance
1. Consultation Guide
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About interpreter
We kindly ask that patients with nationalities other than Japan be accompanied by your own medical interpreters when you receive our medical service. -
Medical Information Referral Letter (Letter of introduction)
Referral Letter from your primary care physician is required when visiting us for a consultation.
If a referral letter from other medical institution cannot be prepared, you would be additionally charged ￥7,700 (tax included) for a “SENTEI RYOYOHI”, an additional fee for a first-time patient without a referral, at the time of the first visit separately from normal fee for consultation. -
Please bring following items;
① Photo ID (Residence card)
② Japanese health insurance card
③ Referral Letter
④ Medicine Notebook
⑤ Mother and child health handbook (for Child Neurology only)
2. How to make an appointment
The consultations here in this hospital require making previous appointments for first and return visits. Please make appointments in accordance with the following procedures.
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Appointment from referring medical institutions
*Appointment from medical institutions will be given priority at our hospital.
It may take about 3 weeks for us to contact you if the application is made by the patient or the family.
- Method
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Appointment from the patients themselves or the family.
The process for making an appointment for the first visit
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Step
1- Please download “Application form for foreigners”.
- ※There are Japanese/English and Japanese/Chinese versions available. Please make use of them.
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Step
2- Please fill in the form.
- ※Please fill in in Japanese. There are a total of 2 pages.
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Step
3- Please send it to us by FAX or Email.
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■ FAX：042-346-1681
■ Email：i-kokusai@ncnp.go.jp
※ ① Please attach the above “Application form for
foreigners”.
② Subject：Application form for foreigners
(patient name)Notes：At this point, the appointment has not yet been confirmed. It will be completed upon the next “Step 4 : Contact from us”.
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Step
4- Contact from us
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Within 3 weeks, we will contact you regarding the appointment date for the consultation.
Please be sure to provide a phone number and email address that you can be contacted to on weekdays from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on the application form.
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3. Payment
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By Cash
Only Japanese yen is accepted -
Acceptable Credit Cards
International Patients without Japanese Health Insurance
We ask that patients make appointments and receive medical service through intermediary agents (including interpreters) that serves as guarantors in order to facilitate smooth consultations and treatments, taking into account differences in language and medical practices.
Whether for a first visit, return visit, hospitalization, or outpatient, the consultations will be conducted through guaranteeing agents.
In principle, please contact the intermediary agencies under contracted with our hospital.
| List of Guaranteeing Agencies |
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Address
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国立研究開発法人 国立精神・神経医療研究センター病院
〒187-8551 東京都小平市小川東町4-1-1 - (English)
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- Name of the Hospital：
- National Center Hospital,
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP)
- Address：
- 4-1-1 Ogawa-higashi-cho, Kodaira-shi,
Tokyo 187-8551, Japan
TEL
042-341-2711(main)
For those coming by train
| Seibu-Shinjuku Line | For Haijima or Tamako, 7 minutes’ walk from Hagiyama Station (South Exit) |
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| JR Chuo Line | Transfer to the Seibu-Tamako Line at Kokubunji Station and get off at Hagiyama Staition |
| JR Musashino Line | 10 minutes’ walk from Shin-Kodaira Station |
Free shuttle bus services
“Hagiyama” Station (on Seibu Line) ⇔ Hospital ⇔ “Shin-Kodaira” Station (JR Musashino Line)
Parking
Parking is available
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