We will open our clinic all national holidays.
On november 23rd (Sat) , we will open until 19:00 pm although a national holiday.
Doctor’s schedule
We can schedule cataract surgery within 3 weeks.

Cataract surgery

Cataract Surgery Flow

  • 1.First visit

    According to your cataract stage and your health condition, the doctor will decide whether cataract surgery is necessary.

  • 2. Surgery schedule 

    The doctor will decide the surgery schedule.
    We can schedule the surgery within 3 weeks from the first visit.

     

  • 3. Examinations

    You need to make a reservation and come to our clinic to have some preoperative examination before the surgery day. The preoperative examination will be performed in order to decide the diopter of the intraocular lenses and it also investigates whether there are other diseases on your body. For example, blood sampling, corneal endothelial cell test, blood oxygenation level check, etc.

  • 4. Explanation about Surgery

    The doctor will explain about the details of the cataract surgery.

  • 5. Sugery day flow

    • (1) Reception

      ·Please visit us with your family 1-2 hours before surgery.
      ·Do not forget the appointment slip, health insurance card, patient ID card and the letter of consent.

    • (2) Waiting Room

      ·All the accessory including nail polish and make-up should be taken off.
      ・We can lend you a surgical gown and cap.
      ·We will put eye drops in your eye several times.
      ·You will be given an intravenous drip.

    • (3) Surgery Room

      ・You will be advised to have a seat.
      ·See cataract surgery
      ·It takes about 10-20 minutes until finish.

    • (4) Recovery Room

      ·After surgery, you will need to take a rest for a while.
      ·We hope you to listen to the postoperative explanation with your family.

  • 6. How often you need to come after the surgery

    • A day after the surgery
      You must come to our clinic and have the follow-up examination
    • For a month
      Once in 3-7days, you need to come to follow up
    • After a month
      Once in 2-3 weeks, you need to come to follow up
    • After 3 months
      Once in 3-6 months, you need to come to follow up

Office hours

Weekday

11:30-13:45/15:00-19:30

Saturday

11:00-13:45/15:00-19:00

Sunday,Holiday

11:00-18:00
(no lunchtime.)

Closed

Our clinic is closed on 12/31, 1/1, 1/2, 1/3.

Location

9th floor of Hulic Shinjuku Building,3-25-1, Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0022

TEL:03-5363-0507

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Doctor career

Director:Yasuhiro Shinkawa

(Registered Recipient of a Diploma of Ophthalmology)

Memberships

Japan Ophthalmological Society
Japanese Retina and Vitreous Society
Japanese Society of Ophthalmic Surgeons

Certification of Completion

Course of Ophthalmic PDT Study Group
Number of cataract surgery up to the present:About 4000

Career

2001 Graduate-Medical Department of Kumamoto University
2002 Department of Ophthalmology Kyoto University School of medicine
2002 Shimada Municipal Hospital
2008 Japanese Red Cross Society
2010 Kitano Hospital The Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute
2014 Shinjuku-Higashiguchi Eye Clinic


 

Doctor:Fumiyo Hasegawa

(Registered Recipient of a Diploma of Ophthalmology)

Memberships

Japan Ophthalmological Society
Japan Ophthalmologists Associasion
Japanese Association for Strabismus and Amblyopia(JASA)

Career

1992 Graduate- Medical Department of Teikyo Univercity
2002 The head ophthalmologist at International Catholic Hospital
2020 Shinjuku-Higashiguchi Eye Clinic

Main Thesis

Sequelae of ocular trauma in schools.(Japanese)
A case of periodic upper and lower strabismus with loss of periodicity after cataract surgery(Japanese)
Quantitative analysis of eye movement during a cover test for patients with intermittent exotropia(Japanese)



 
We have 7 full-time service orthoptist, 2 part-time orthoptists, 1 full-time nurse and 4 part-time nurses in our clinic.
Another several ophthalmologists are working here.