Mountain Doctor: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Ayumu Miyamoto is a young orthopedic surgeon. He goes back to his hometown in Nagano Prefecture and begins to work at the general hospital there. In addition to working as an orthopedic surgeon, he is ordered to join the mountain medical treatment team. The team provides treatment for patients who became sick or injured while in the mountains. The medical team members need to have knowledge about both the mountain and medicine. They are called mountain doctors because of this. Ayumu Miyamoto is not passionate about his duties on the mountain medical team. Things change as he works more with the team members. Meanwhile, Gakuto Emori is a circulatory physician who works at the same hospital and is a member of the medical treatment team. Although Gakuto Emori does his job well, he has trauma from his past that he tries to overcome.

Series details

• Title: Mountain Doctor
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Premiere date: 2024-07-08
• Final broadcast date listed: 2024-09-16
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: KTV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 57 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 78406
• TVDB ID: 450123

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2024-07-08; final listed air date 2024-09-16.

Source and licence

Adapted from Mountain Doctor on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.