About

Hitomi Vision opened in 2011 on the second floor of 14 Linden Row, Northgate. A lift comes up from the street door. There were three exam rooms and a small frame room then, and those are still the rooms we work in. The waiting area was a pale sofa, a side table, and a plant. People who have been coming for years recognise that corner before they recognise any piece of equipment.

The clinic was opened for two groups we still book every week: adults who spend the day at a screen, and children of school age. A visit is an appointment with a named clinician. The comprehensive exam is sixty minutes. When the question is narrower, the book has a shorter visit, and every fee is published in US dollars before you arrive.

The front window on Linden Row shows plants and a pale frame display. We have kept the address and stayed independent. Current instruments matter, and so does this: the person who measured you is in the building when the plan is explained. You leave with the findings said aloud, and with the fee already on the list.

Office workers usually arrive with a clock time. Tired eyes by four o’clock, blur that grows after a long stretch at a monitor, a dry burning feeling, and a neck that has been helping the eyes cope. Those are the symptoms we take in the first ten minutes of a history. Screen distance, a near add, and the way the two eyes hold a target are things we can measure. Dr. Jonah Whitfield leads the screen and workplace work. Dr. Elena Marsh leads adult binocular vision.

School-age children arrive with a different list, and with a parent. A book held close, lines skipped, reading avoided, eyes rubbed, the board soft from the back of the room. Ages five to fifteen are seen by Dr. Tomas Reyes. The test uses games and picture targets when a letter chart is not fair. Myopia, when we find it, is reviewed every six months.

We keep both groups in one clinic because the sequence is the same. History, refraction, binocular vision, eye health, then a plan. The rooms are shared. The questions are not blurred together.

She does not see every person who books. Dr. Tomas Reyes sees children’s vision and myopia follow-up. Dr. Priya Nair sees dry eye and contact lenses. Dr. Jonah Whitfield sees screen and workplace vision. Ines Kowalczyk fits frames and lenses. Samuel Achebe is the clinical technician for imaging. Hana Lindgren runs the front desk and the book.

Ask for Dr. Marsh by name when the question is an adult binocular one. If another clinician is the better match, the desk will say so when you book. The director’s photograph on this page is her at the slit lamp.

We measure, and then we advise. A headache at four, a skipped line, a lens that stings by evening: each can have more than one cause. The exam is how we separate them. An individual account on this site is one person’s record. Results differ. We can measure your eyes. We cannot promise you someone else’s afternoon.

We keep time for the explanation. In the comprehensive exam the last fifteen minutes are the plan: what was found, what we suggest, what it costs, and what a follow-up is for. A follow-up check within six months is twenty minutes and $40. You should be able to say, in your own words, which part was the refraction and which part was distance, habit, or the tear film.

We stay small enough to know the book. Three exam rooms and a frame room means the clinician, the technician, the optician, and the desk share one corridor. The published hours are the real hours. Monday to Friday 10:00–19:00, Saturday 9:00–16:00, Sunday and public holidays closed.