KUNITA GANKA IIN

Kunita Ganka Iин is a neighborhood ophthalmology clinic in Nerima’s Sekimachi area — residential, quiet, not the kind of place international patients typically stumble across. It handles the full range of eye care: vision checks, glaucoma screening, cataracts, dry eye, and general complaints. The clinic has some English on its website, which is a decent sign, but that doesn’t guarantee you’ll find English-speaking staff at reception or in the exam room. Nerima isn’t exactly expat central, so walk in expecting Japanese to be the working language. That said, eye exams involve a lot of equipment-guided testing where language matters less than you’d think — pointing and nodding gets you further here than at most specialties. If you live in the Nerima area and need a local eye doctor without trekking to central Tokyo, this is a practical option. Bring a translation app, have your symptoms written out in Japanese if possible, and you’ll likely be fine.