Kyoto University's Department of Neurosurgery (about 50 affiliated hospitals and some 450 alumni neurosurgeons) publishes its specialist training route and subspecialty course syllabi, and notes many trainees from other Japanese universities and overseas.
One to one-and-a-half years at Kyoto University Hospital, then operator training at regional core hospitals, subspecialty rotations (functional neurosurgery course at Kyoto University, spine courses at Kyoto Katsura Hospital, Katano Hospital and Fujieda, paediatrics at Shizuoka Children's Hospital) and placement at large centres before the board examination.