{"id":245416,"date":"2025-12-22T06:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/245416\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:03:11","slug":"medical-tourism-comes-to-japan-with-new-pilot-project-near-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/245416\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical tourism comes to Japan with new pilot project near airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/travel-leisure\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travel &amp; Leisure<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Railway operator Keikyu, travel agency JTB aim for full launch in FY2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20251205 Keikyu and JTB medical tourism pilot tour\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A medical tour participant is accompanied by an interpreter to hear her comprehensive health checkup results. (Photo by Yurika Yoneda)<\/p>\n<p>YURIKA YONEDA<\/p>\n<p>December 22, 2025 11:25 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; With Japan&#8217;s life expectancy among the world&#8217;s highest and its rapidly growing popularity as a tourist destination, a domestic travel agency and a railway operator have teamed up with a hospital to promote medical tourism near Tokyo&#8217;s Haneda Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel &amp; Leisure Railway operator Keikyu, travel agency JTB aim for full launch in FY2026 A medical tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[4851,128573,18,135,475,474,19,17,386,693,3119,102309,1801,5986],"class_list":["post-245416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-airport","tag-comes","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-medical","tag-new","tag-pilot","tag-project","tag-tourism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115761709659671592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}