Japantown Optometry, San Jose: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1871271353
- Legal business name
- Fifth Optometric Care of California
- Registered trading name
- Japantown Optometry
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 214 Jackson St
San Jose, CA 95112-3201 - Phone on the record
- (408) 293-3730
- NPI issued
- July 6, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- December 20, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- County
- Santa Clara County
- Parent organization
- Fifth Optometric Care of California
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 11 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Fifth Optometric Care of California and registered Japantown Optometry as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. CMS records this location as a subpart of Fifth Optometric Care of California, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 11 locations nationally are registered under the same name, so pricing and policies are likely to be set at group level rather than at this office. The entry was last refreshed in December 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 46 of 260 records were updated in 2024 or later and 169 predate 2020.
For local context: San Jose holds 108 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 85 of them optometry and 23 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 95112. 97 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Shinmori Optometry in San Jose, 0.0 miles away.
None of this is a licensing check. CMS issues an NPI so a provider can be identified in billing transactions, and states plainly that issuance does not ensure or validate that the holder is licensed or credentialed. The California boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Also registered at this address
2 other organizations hold an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Shinmori Optometry | Optometry | July 2010 |
| Fifth Optometric Care of California | Optometry | July 2026 |
Nearest registered practices
366 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro itself there are 260, 107 of them elsewhere in San Jose. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shinmori Optometry | San Jose | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (408) 293-3730 |
| Fifth Optometric Care of California | San Jose | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (408) 293-3730 |
| In Focus Optometry, Inc | San Jose | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (408) 295-0246 |
| Buena Vista Eyecare Group | San Jose | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (408) 293-2020 |
| Buena Vista Eyecare Group Optometry | San Jose | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (408) 293-2020 |
Distances are straight line between registered practice locations, not driving distance. Records placed at a ZIP centroid rather than a matched street address are excluded from this comparison.
What to expect to pay at an optometry practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Japantown Optometry, and independent optometry practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $120 to $200 at this kind of practice without insurance, which is a reported band rather than a published price. The nearest published figure is $95, the median starting fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004). Ask Japantown Optometry for its self-pay price.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses (the median published contact-lens fee is $129). A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price. If price is the deciding factor, the 260 practices on the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara page give you the full local field to call around.