Various childcare services

Home-based childcare business
For children aged 0 to 2 years, we will provide home-like atmosphere at home of home childcare welfare staff certified by Yokohama City. Apply to the ward office and pay childcare fees according to your income according to the licensed nursery school.

Small-scale childcare business
For children aged 0 to 2 years, we provide meticulous childcare in a relatively small environment with a capacity of 6 or more and 19 or less. Apply to the ward office and pay childcare fees according to your income according to the licensed nursery school.

Yokohama Nursery Room
This is a childcare facility that Yokohama City has independently certified for children aged 0 to 2 years. Apply directly to the facility and there is a subsidy for reducing usage fees according to your income.

Authorized nursery school
This facility is based on the Child Welfare Law, in which parents can take care of children who cannot care at home due to work or illness on behalf of parents. Apply to the ward office and pay the childcare fee according to your income.

Fiscal year Limited Childcare Business
This is a business to take care of 1.2-year-old children who could not use nursery schools for a limited time (1 year) by utilizing the empty space of nursery schools and affordable childcare rooms. Apply directly to the facility.

Center for Early Childhood Education and Care
It is a place where both a kindergarten and a licensed nursery school. The main feature is that it can be used regardless of whether the guardian is working or not, and even if the working conditions of the guardian changes, it is possible to continue using the garden they are used to. Apply for the nursery school part (childcare use) to the ward office, and the kindergarten part (educational use) directly to the facility.

Non-licensed childcare facilities
Acceptance age and childcare fees vary depending on the facility. Apply directly to the facility.

Kindergarten
Kindergartens are designed to cultivate the foundations of compulsory education and subsequent education, to provide an appropriate environment for the healthy growth of infants, and to promote their mental and physical development.
To enter the park, apply directly to the kindergarten.
In addition to childcare from 9:00 to 14:00, there are many gardens that offer extended childcare until the evening for applicants.
In particular, the Yokohama City Nursery Kindergarten, which has been certified by Yokohama City, provides childcare from 7:30 to 18:30 (15:30 on Saturday), including summer vacation.
This is a system that can meet the needs of those who want to go to kindergarten while working, or looking for a place to take care of it outside the nursery school.
Details vary depending on each kindergarten, so be sure to contact the kindergarten.

Authorized nursery school
This facility is based on the Child Welfare Law, in which parents can take care of children who cannot care at home due to work or illness on behalf of parents. Apply to the ward office and pay the childcare fee according to your income.

Center for Early Childhood Education and Care
It is a place where both a kindergarten and a licensed nursery school. The main feature is that it can be used regardless of whether or not the guardian is working, and even if the working conditions of the guardian changes, it is possible to continue using the garden where they can go to. In addition, there is kindergarten part of authorized child institution that carries out long-term childcare similar to Yokohama-shi custody kindergarten in kindergarten.
Kindergarten part (for educational use) directly to the facility, and the nursery school part (childcare use) applies to the ward office.

Non-licensed childcare facilities
Acceptance age and childcare fees vary depending on the facility. Apply directly to the facility.

Temporary childcare such as licensed nursery schools and Yokohama nursery rooms
This is a system in which elementary school studenｔ is temporarily unable to take care of children at home due to part-time employment or illness of parents, or to refresh their parents.
Operating hours are, in principle, the opening hours of each facility. The target is preschool children who are not enrolled in licensed nursery schools, Yokohama nursery rooms, home-based childcare business, small-scale childcare business, or certified child institution (supply certified parts of No. 2 and No. 3).

Temporary custody services for infants
If you want to leave your child temporarily during child care, such as "I want to complete my errands" or "I want to make my own time and refresh myself", you can keep it for any reason. Operating hours vary depending on the facility. The target is pre-school children living in the city.

Holidays and New Year holidays
When childcare is not possible at home on Sunday or public holidays due to work reasons, etc., we carry out "holiday childcare" to be kept at a nursery school.

Childcare for sick children
Nurses and nursery teachers will take care of sick children from the early stages of illness in the nursery room attached to a medical institution.

Childcare for post-sick children
This is a service in which specialized staff such as nurses take care of children who are recovering from illness in a dedicated nursery room.

24-hour emergency temporary childcare
If you have to leave it urgently due to a parent's illness or work, we will temporarily take care of it at a nursery school.
Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including night and lodging.

Yokohama Child Care Support System
"People who want to take care of children" and "people who take care of children" register as members and provide child care support based on mutual responsibility and trust.

Local child care support base
This facility is a base for child care support that provides a space for preschool children and their parents to play and interact, provide consultation on child care, and provides child care information.

Gathering open space for parents and children
This is a place where parents and children who are raising children can easily gather and interact with each other in a condominium or a vacant store in a shopping district. We also provide consultation and information on child care. Depending on the open space, usage fees may be required.

Private kindergarten is Mako Square
Parents and children who are raising children can play safely and happily in kindergarten gardens and buildings. It is also a place for parents to interact and exchange information with each other.

Childcare Support Center Garden / Nursery School Child care open space Private permanently
Parents and children who are raising children can play safely and happily in the nursery garden and school buildings. We exchange between parents, information exchange, consultation on child care, and exchanges with children.

In addition, "child care support venue" (held once a week), which provides exchange support for caregivers and consultation on child care at familiar citizen use facilities such as district centers. Child care salon ”(held once a week to once a month).

Health and Welfare Center Children and Families Support Division ※The area code is (045).
[Reference] Childcare and Education Concierge

Types and definitions of education and childcare resources in Yokohama City (as of April 1, 2023) (PDF: 148KB)