{"id":195916,"date":"2025-12-22T05:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195916\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:55:11","slug":"medical-tourism-comes-to-japan-with-new-pilot-project-near-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195916\/","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.newsbeep.com\/nz\/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":195917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2681,8608,134,527,1759,3523,117,111,139,69,19723,3263,10097],"class_list":{"0":"post-195916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-airport","9":"tag-comes","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-medical","14":"tag-new","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-pilot","19":"tag-project","20":"tag-tourism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}