Ikeda ENT Pediatrics Clinic
About
Ikeda Clinic, located about a 7-minute walk from Asahigaoka Station on the Sendai Municipal Subway Namboku Line, is a medical clinic with a long history that opened in 1968 as "Ikeda Pediatrics." Currently, the clinic specializes in both Otolaryngology (ENT) and Pediatrics, with Director Hideya Watatani (ENT specialist, MD, PhD) and Chief Kaoru Watatani (Pediatric specialist, MD, PhD) each overseeing their respective specialties. One of the clinic's features is that patients can receive care for two closely related departments—Pediatrics and ENT—at the same facility, enabling integrated treatment for conditions that span both specialties. In addition to full-time physicians, the clinic has several part-time doctors and also serves as an educational facility where students from Tohoku University School of Medicine and Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine conduct clinical training, reflecting close collaboration with university hospitals. The clinic offers English-language support, accepts credit cards and electronic payments, and actively promotes medical digital transformation (DX) initiatives such as implementing automatic payment kiosks. Dedicated parking is available, making the clinic accessible not only by public transportation but also by car. Regular clinic hours are closed on Thursdays, Sundays, and holidays, though the clinic operates on Thursdays when a holiday falls during the week, demonstrating flexible scheduling that takes patients' needs into account.
