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The welfare of persons with disabilities

This booklet focuses on welfare services that can be used by children with disabilities and people living in Yokohama City and their families, and introduces the contents. The contents of the description are kept to a minimum, so please ask each window for details such as individual systems. The contents of the system may change in the future, so please use it after checking.

Last Updated October 25, 2024

About the app version of disability welfare

In order to make it easier and easier for people with disabilities, their families, and supporters to obtain the information necessary to use the disability welfare system and services, the smartphone application "Yokohama City Disability Welfare Annai App "has been created. Anyone with a disability, family, staff of disability welfare service establishment can use it free of charge, so please download it. You can download it in one of the following ways.
How to download 1
Start the camera on your smartphone and read the two-dimensional barcode.
How to download 2
Search for "Disability Welfare" on the App Store or Google Play.
"Yokohama-shi obstacle welfare app" handbill (PDF: 1,622KB)
"Yokohama-shi obstacle welfare app" handbill (text version) (text file: 1KB)

Disability welfare 2024

The old and new comparison table between the 2023 and 2024 editions has been created.

About list of disability welfare service establishments, facilities

About Braille version data

You can download Braille data (BES format) from the link below. The data consists of a table of contents and a main part, and the main part is divided into three volumes.
2024 Braille version data of disability welfare (file: 118KB)

About rental of Braille and Daisy versions

Braille and Daisy versions are rented out at 18 ward offices in the city, Elderly and Disabled Support Division and other facilities. The hearing-impaired information provision facilities are available only for the daisy version.
・Yokohama Municipal Chuo-toshokan (1 Omatsucho, Nishi-ku, Address)
・Yokohama Municipal Special Needs School for the Blind (1-26 Matsumicho, Kanagawa-ku, Address)
・Information provision facility for the hearing impaired (3rd floor, Yokohama Rapport, 1752, Toriyama-cho, Kohoku-ku, Address) ※Only the Daisy version can be borrowed
・Welfare and Health Training Exchange Center Wing Yokohama Information Library (1-6-1 Kamiooka Nishi, Konan-ku, Address)
・Kanagawa Light Center (1-80-2 Futamatagawa, Asahi-ku, Address)
・(181 Takenomaru, Naka-ku, Address)
・Yokohama City Welfare Association for the Visually Impaired (1752, Toriyama-cho, Kohoku-ku, Address, group exchange room on the 3rd floor of Yokohama Rapport)
・Yokohama City Hall Citizen Information Center (10th floor, 6-50 Honcho, Naka-ku, Address)

About paid distribution of booklet

Persons with disabilities and their families are distributed free of charge at each ward office Elderly and Disabled Support Division. Other related parties and applicants can purchase at the following facilities. (300 yen per book including tax)
(1) City Hall 3F Municipal Government Publications and Goods Sales Corner
(2) Each ward office stand (wards that do not have a stand in the ward office are sold at the following locations)
  ・Tsurumi Ward: Tsurumi Ward Core Consultation Support Center (Tsurumi Regional Activities Home Manager)
  ・Nishi Ward: Local Activities Home Guts Bito West
  ・Minami Ward: Local activities home Dontokoi / Minami
  ・Konan Ward: Konan Central Community Activities Home Soyokaze no Ie
  ・Hodogaya Ward: Contact shop crayon
  ・Asahi Ward: Asahi public hall
  ・Isogo Ward: Isogo Local Activities Home Ibuki
  ・Kanazawa Ward: Kanazawa Local Activities Home Apple Forest
  ・Kohoku Ward: Kohoku public hall
  ・Midori Ward: Green Local Activities Home Aozora
  ・Totsuka Ward: Higashitotsuka Local Activities Home Hikari
  ・Sakae Ward: Local Activities Home Support Center Diameter

Issuer

City of Yokohama, Health and Social Welfare Bureau Obstacle Policy Promotion Section
〒231-0005
6-50-10, Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi

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Inquiries to this page

Health and Social Welfare Bureau Disability Welfare and Health Department Disability Measures Promotion Section (For inquiries about each service, please contact the contact information listed in the text)

Telephone: 045-671-3603

Telephone: 045-671-3603

Fax: 045-671-3566

Email address: kf-syosuishin@city.yokohama.jp

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