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- Use of daycare centers
- About procedure when we want to use nursery schools
- For those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2025
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For those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2025
Nursery schools: Facilities and businesses such as licensed nursery schools, certified children's schools (use of childcare), home-based childcare, small-scale childcare, and in-house childcare (regional frameworks).
Last Updated December 2, 2024
↑Click here if you are looking for a nursery school!
In this page, we publish styles such as use guidance, application to one hoped for use such as nursery schools in 2025.
If you would like to use a nursery school in 2024, please see those who wish to use a nursery school in 2024.
In addition, person who hopes for the use of kindergarten, authorized child institution (use of education), please see about procedure when we want to use kindergarten.
| ・Inquiries about how to write documents and the reception schedule are available on a dedicated dial. Telephone:045-664-2607 FAX︓045-211-4253 Opening hours: from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. (including weekends and holidays) ・For other inquiries, please contact each ward office Child and Family Support Division. |
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１．2025 use guidance such as Yokohama-shi nursery school (please read by all means when applying)
As we list payment authorization application such as nursery schools in Yokohama-shi, procedure about use application, application documents, please read contents carefully before applying.
In addition, we distribute in paper booklet from Thursday, October 10, 2024. (List of distribution locations) (PDF: 261KB)
★2025 Yokohama City Nursery School Usage Guide ★（PDF：7,516KB）
※Please also check the usage guidance for nursery schools in each ward. We can download from homepage of each ward and distribute in each ward office from Thursday, October 10, 2024.
(Click the ward name of "Inquiry" at the bottom of this page to move to the page of each ward.)
※About standard and way of thinking in payment authorization and use adjustment, you can confirm in standard about Yokohama-shi payment authorization and use adjustment.
※ Information on the use of daycare centers for children who need medical care 2024.4.1 (PDF: 694KB)
If you are a child in need of medical care, please follow this guide.
In addition, several nursing staff are assigned and schools that can accept medical care children at all times are certified as "medical care child support nursery schools".
Please also check the information on "Medical Care Child Support Nursery School" and the page on the guidelines for promoting the acceptance of medical care children at nursery schools.
※ About the handling of application for use of nursery schools at the same time as siblings
※For foreign language versions, please download the following.
(English) 2025 FY Guide to Kindergartens and Nursery Facilities in Yokohama（PDF：227KB）
(Chinese) 2025 Yoko City Kindergarten, Nursery School, etc. Guide (PDF: 875KB)
(한국)2025년도요코하마시어린이집・유치원등이용안내（PDF：456KB）
(Español)INFORMACIÓN DE LA CIUDAD DE YOKOHAMA PARA LOS USUARIOS DE LOS JARDINES DE INFANCIA, GUARDERÍAS Y DEMÁS DEL AÑO 2025（PDF：551KB）
(Português)Informações sobre a utilização de Jardins de Infância,Creches, etc, da cidade de Yokohama para o ano fiscal de 2025（PDF：419KB）
２．Documents required for application in 2025
About documents necessary for application, please confirm page 19 from page 16 of use guidance such as Yokohama-shi nursery schools.
（１） Documents required by everyone
(A)Benefit authorization application (PDF: 807KB)
(A)Benefit certification application [Entry example] (PDF: 1,001KB)
(A)Benefit authorization application [Easy Japanese Kakikata] (PDF: 3,903KB)
(B)Use application (for nursery schools, etc.) (PDF: 1,369KB)
(B)Use application (for nursery schools, etc.) [Entry example] (PDF: 1,535KB)
(B)Use application (for nursery schools, etc.) [Easy Japanese Kakikata] (PDF: 2,934KB)
※When there are more than 11 desired facilities / businesses ... [Facilities / businesses you want to use] Attachment (PDF: 409KB)
(D)My Number Entry Form (PDF: 560KB)
(D)My number entry form [Entry example] (PDF: 670KB)
My number identity verification document attachment mount (PDF: 694KB)
Submission Document Confirmation Form (Kaneshige Important Matters Confirmation Form) (PDF: 665KB)
Reply envelope (with a 110 yen stamp attached for about 3 size)
※If you apply at the counter for the second application in April and the application for use after May, a reply envelope is not required.
（２） Documents proving that childcare is required (in the case of employment)
We can download "work certificate" for payment authorization, use application such as nursery schools after working certificate to submit to Yokohama-shi and distribute in ward offices.
- Employment certificate is a style for those who wish to use a nursery school to prove the working situation.
- If you are employed, please obtain certification from the company.
- About work certificate to submit to Yokohama-shi Please inform the person in charge of the company so that you can make it after confirming it.
- Please be sure to check the usage guide when applying for use.
Creation of Employment Certificates
If you create or modify a work certificate, etc. with the name of the company without permission, you may cancel the payment authorization and use (including a job offer) assuming that the application contents are false. There is. In this case, each offense may be established if it is deemed to fall under the composition requirements of the offense of fake private documents in a seal, alteration of private documents in a seal, or unauthorized creation of private electromagnetic records.
Organize the establishment of crimes when seal is omitted or electronically submitted with respect to the Cabinet Office Employment Certificate (PDF: 1,519KB)
（３） Documents required when requesting preferential treatment of children such as nursery teachers
Pledge and certificate about employment such as nursery teachers (PDF: 737KB)
There is an entry field in the form. Please submit it after obtaining proof of your place of employment.
<Priority handling of children such as nursery teachers>
In Yokohama City, we are promoting the development of childcare facilities and businesses as a measure for waiting-list children, and securing childcare personnel has become an urgent issue.
Since it is considered that it is difficult for children such as nursery teachers to use nursery schools, etc., it is difficult to secure childcare human resources, priority is given to children such as nursery teachers working at nursery schools in Yokohama City We have introduced a handling.
In addition, even if you live outside the city, you will be subject to priority handling as well as residents of the city, and will be subject to the primary use adjustment of the application in April. When applying for a primary application, be sure to state that you are eligible for the primary application of Yokohama City when applying to the municipality where you currently live.
<Changes in working conditions after entering a nursery school, etc.>
If you apply priority treatment and enter a nursery school, etc., we ask that you continue to work at a nursery school in the city during the period of use such as a nursery school for your child. . If there is a change in the working situation, be sure to notify us as follows.
- Those who live in the city
Please submit certification change application to ward office Children and Families Support Division of ward where nursery schools are using are located. - Those who live outside the city
Please notify the ward office Children and Families Support Division of the ward where the nursery school you are using is located using the employment certificate (*) that shows the change in the working situation.
※If you have not re-employed after retiring from a nursery school, please contact the ward office Children and Families Support Division of the ward where the nursery school you are using is located.
（４） Documents required when there is a regular night shift at least twice a month
Night shift certificate (PDF: 87KB)
Night shift certificate (Excel: 20KB)
From the entrance in 2025, if "normally has night shifts at least twice a month", you will be required to certify in a different form (night shift certificate) from the employment certificate.
If you fall under the "Normal night shift twice or more a month" described in the night shift certificate, ask your employer to create a form.
In addition, instead of creating the form, it is also possible to write "There is a night shift at least twice a month" in the remarks column (No. 18) of the employment certificate. In that case, if there is no description of "twice or more per month" (for example, if there is no description of the number of times per month or only working hours), it is assumed that there is no night shift at least twice a month.
（５） Other documents to be submitted as necessary
Time Schedule (PDF: 276KB)
Time schedule [Example of entry] (PDF: 498KB)
[Facilities/businesses you wish to use] Attachment (PDF: 409KB)
Certificate of attendance (Usage) (PDF: 359KB)
(Usage) certificate (word: 31KB)
Certification Change Application Form (PDF: 986KB)
Application withdrawal form and change of application contents registration form (PDF: 1,038KB)
Application for cancellation of certification / use cancellation (PDF: 525KB)
Childcare Leave Certificate (PDF: 90KB)
Childcare leave certificate (Excel: 22KB)
Payment authorization application withdrawal form (PDF: 516KB)
Authorization (change) decision letter of advice re-grant application (PDF: 404KB)
Overseas Income Report (PDF: 341KB)
Petition for a decrease in the number of working days (PDF: 434KB)
（６） Documents necessary for notification of sibling multiple child reduction
About presentation of siblings child reduction registration form (PDF: 214KB)
Sibling child reduction registration form (back: certificate of enrollment, etc.) (PDF: 168KB)
（７） If you are interested, please refer to this document.
- Those who are currently taking childcare leave
For those who are taking childcare leave (PDF: 512KB) - Those who apply for a reason for needing childcare while "job hunting"
To those who applied for "Jobing" (PDF: 394KB)
３. April 2025 Primary Application Reception Period
| Application start date | Application deadline (postmark valid) |
|---|---|
| Thursday, October 10, 2024 | Wednesday, November 6, 2024 |
- Only the addition, order change and missing documents of the desired garden will be accepted until Thursday, November 28, 2024 (postmark valid).
- Please submit payment authorization application, use application (nursery school) by all means by Wednesday, November 6. Even if you submit it as a missing document at a later date, it will be subject to secondary use adjustment.
- We recommend that you apply as soon as possible, as the period during which you can correct or prepare when there are insufficient or incomplete application documents.
- If you live outside the city, you can apply from the second application via the municipality where you live. For details, please refer to page 14.
- From April 2025, a copy of the application documents when applying for the use of a nursery school is required for the procedure of childcare leave benefits. Please be sure to make a copy by yourself before applying.
[About childcare leave benefits (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare website)]https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/0000160564_00040.html (external site)
If any of the following apply, please apply to the ward office Children and Families Support Division.
- When we hope for the use of nursery schools outside Yokohama (only window application)
- For children who need individual support (only for window application)
４. April 2025 Reference Date for Primary Application
Monday, September 30, 2024
Reference date: When judging the situation of the home, etc. when adjusting the use of nursery schools.
５. About online application using my number card
About Yokohama citizen is applied for use such as nursery schools in Yokohama-shi, we can apply online using my number card.
→[Please be sure to check] [Start of use in FY2025] Online application for use of daycare centers
[Use in April 2025 (primary application)] The application acceptance period has ended. Secondary applications will be accepted from Monday, January 6, 2025.
Inquiries
| Name of ward | Phone number | FAX number |
|---|---|---|
| Tsurumi | 045-510-1816 | 045‐510‐1887 |
| Kanagawa | 045-411-7157 | 045‐321‐8820 |
| West | 045‐320‐8472 | 045‐322‐9875 |
| Medium | 045‐224‐8172 | 045-224-8159 |
| South | 045‐341‐1149 | 045‐341‐1145 |
| Konan | 045‐847‐8498 | 045‐842‐0813 |
| Hodogaya | 045‐334‐6397 | 045‐334‐6393 |
| Asahi | 045‐954‐6173 | 045‐951‐4683 |
| Isogo | 045‐750‐2435 | 045‐750‐2540 |
| Kanazawa | 045‐788‐7795 | 045‐788‐7794 |
| Kohoku | 045‐540‐2280 | 045‐540‐2426 |
| Green | 045‐930‐2331 | 045‐930‐2435 |
| Green leaves | 045‐978‐2428 | 045‐978‐2422 |
| Tsuzuki | 045‐948‐2463 | 045‐948‐2309 |
| Tozuka | 045‐866‐8467 | 045‐866‐8473 |
| Sakae | 045‐894‐8463 | 045‐894‐8406 |
| Spring | 045‐800‐2413 | 045‐800‐2524 |
| Seya | 045‐367‐5782 | 045‐367‐2943 |
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Inquiries to this page
Child and Youth Bureau Childcare and Education Department Childcare and Education Certification Division
Telephone: 045-671-0253
Telephone: 045-671-0253
Fax: 045-550-3942
Email address: kd-hknintei@city.yokohama.lg.jp
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