Extend Healthy Life Expectancy! Kumariha Health Festa 2026

About this event

With the theme "Extending Healthy Life Expectancy," the "Kumariha Health Festa 2026" is an event offering health consultations, body checks, and hands-on experiences. On the day, a wide variety of programs will be featured, including Sparkly Clean! Handwashing Check, hybrid rehabilitation experience, MRI center tour, BLS (Basic Life Support) class, universal sports experience, Pilates class, aging degree evaluation with an AGEs sensor, surgery simulation with an electrosurgical knife, Medical Kids Project (try on a white coat and take photos), VR (Virtual Reality) disaster simulation, 5-Minute Challenge My Timeline, exhibition of emergency stockpiles such as disaster food and portable toilets, display of daycare and home-visit rehabilitation craft projects, video screenings, and TOYOTA - Extending Driving Life. There will also be displays of wheelchair lift vehicles for general use and camper vans. The parking area in front of the venue will transform into a lively food and play market, lined with kitchen cars, koppe-pan buns, onigirazu rice balls, handmade goods, and sundries shops. With kids' dance shows, Japanese taiko drumming performances, a children's play corner, ponies, and a traveling petting zoo, it is a space designed for all-day enjoyment. The health check corner will offer blood pressure checks, height and weight measurements, hearing tests, locomotion check, frailty check, muscle mass measurement via InBody, vascular age test (ABI), dental consultations, a foot health corner, lower limb varicose vein consultations, and foot care/footprints. A public seminar for citizens will be held starting at 1:00 PM on "Specific Strategies for Tackling Obesity," featuring Dr. Yoshihiro Yoshimura (Vice Hospital Director & Director of the Sarcopenia and Nutrition Support Center), Yoshimi Tsuchida (Physical Therapist & Rehabilitation Division Manager of the Regional Contribution Project Promotion Center), and Izumi Ueno (Registered Dietitian of the Nutrition Department). Consultation booths staffed by doctors, nurses, pharmacists, registered dietitians, and social workers will also be available.

Venue

Kumamoto Rehabilitation Hospital

760 Magate, Kikuyo-machi, Kikuchi-gun, Kumamoto 869-1106