[...] Since the 1931 opening of Tokyo National Hospital (formerly Kiyose Hospital), sanatoriums and research facilities have been successively built in the city. Crown Princess Kiko visited the Kiyose City Museum to see daily items used by tuberculosis patients at the time and self-published print works in which patients contributed their writings.
Regarding the history of the shopping district that developed as the number of medical facilities increased, she said, "The patients, their families, medical personnel and local community must have supported each other."
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After touring the museum, she visited the Kiyose Hospital's monument within the municipal central park. She then visited a residential area that formerly hosted sanatoriums and a place where large cherry trees planted by patients for horticultural therapy are still standing.
During the tour guided by association members, Crown Princess Kiko occasionally took photographs with her smartphone while taking notes. At the site where the wooden huts used for open-air treatment remain, she expressed gratitude, saying, "We are able to see this thanks to everyone's efforts (at preservation)."