Medical team and equipment
Physicians, nurses and clinical engineers work together on each session, taking into account your usual dialysis prescription, how you are feeling and your plans while in Japan. Clinical engineers manage the dialysis machines and dialysate.
- Dialysis machines: online HDF capable
- Imaging and monitoring: CT, ultrasound, ECG, blood volume monitor
Documents the clinic will ask for
Your home dialysis unit prepares these. We let you know the exact format and how to send them.
Dialysis prescription
- Usual dialysis days and sessions per week
- Session length
- Blood flow and dialysate flow rates
- Modality (HD or HDF)
- Dry weight
- Anticoagulant type and dose
- Dialyzer model
- Vascular access details
Recent results and history
- Most recent blood test results
- Infection screening results
- Current medications
- Medical history and comorbidities
- Allergies
- Precautions during dialysis
- Anything else your physician considers necessary
Whether the clinic can accept you, and on what conditions, is decided by the clinic's physicians after reviewing your medical information. Treatment decisions remain between you, your own physician and the clinic.
Price
- Dialysis session: from ¥40,000 per session
- Public holidays, evening and late-night sessions: surcharge set by the clinic, confirmed in your quote
Getting there and staying nearby
The clinic is about one minute on foot from the west exit of Mizuhodai Station on the Tobu Tojo Line, which links Ikebukuro in Tokyo with Kawagoe. Free parking is available if you come by car.
Daily Hotel Mizuhodai is about three minutes on foot from the same exit, which makes it practical for patients travelling with family, and for early-morning, evening, late-night or overnight sessions.
Things to do between sessions
Tokyo
Direct trains to Ikebukuro, then onward across the city: Shinjuku, Shibuya and Harajuku, Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace, Ginza, Asakusa and Senso-ji, Tokyo Skytree, Ueno and Ameyoko, Akihabara, Odaiba, Toyosu Market. Have an early-morning session and spend the day in Tokyo, or sightsee by day and dialyse in the evening.
Tokyo Disney Resort
Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea are reached by train with changes; the nearest station is JR Maihama. A morning session before the park, or a full day in the park followed by a late session, both fit the clinic's hours.
Kawagoe, "Little Edo"
A short ride up the line. Edo-period warehouse streets, the Bell of Time, Kashiya Yokocho sweets alley, Kita-in temple, Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine and the Honmaru Goten of Kawagoe Castle. Rent a kimono, try matcha, wagashi, eel and the local sweet-potato dishes.
Shinkansen from Omiya
Omiya Station serves the Tohoku, Hokkaido, Joetsu, Hokuriku, Yamagata and Akita Shinkansen. Day trips or overnights on non-dialysis days:
- Karuizawa: nature, shopping, hot springs, skiing
- Nagano: Zenko-ji, hot springs, snow country
- Echigo-Yuzawa: onsen, skiing and snowboarding
- Niigata: seafood, sake, local dishes
- Sendai: history, Matsushima, gyutan
- Kanazawa: Kenroku-en, old streets, Japanese cuisine
In winter the Joetsu Shinkansen stops at Gala-Yuzawa, a station built into the ski resort. Check train schedules, resort opening dates and snow conditions before you travel.
