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Nursery schools and childcare facilities (types and outlines of facilities and businesses)

Last update date June 23, 2023

Types and overview of childcare facilities (target age, size, etc. differ.)

Types and overview of licensed nursery schools
Type name Target age Capacity Usage fees Application destination
Authorized nursery school From 0 to 5 years old 20 or more Calculated based on municipal tax The ward office of your ward (Note 1)
Certified child institution (childcare use)

From 0 to 5 years old

20 or more Calculated based on municipal tax The ward office of your ward (Note 1)
Small-scale childcare business

From 0 to 2 years old

6 to 19 people
C type is up to 10 people

Calculated based on municipal tax The ward office of your ward (Note 1)

Home-based childcare business

From 0 to 2 years old

From 3 to 5 people

Calculated based on municipal tax The ward office of your ward (Note 1)

(Note 1) Please confirm how to apply for use of licensed nursery schools, etc. from the application for licensed nursery schools.

Types and overview of non-approved childcare facilities
Type name Target age Capacity Usage fees Application destination
Yokohama Nursery Room From 0 to 2 years old 20 or more The facility has its own settings Facilities you wish to use
Non-approved childcare facilities (including company-led childcare services) Depending on the facility Depending on the facility The facility has its own settings Facilities that wish to use (Note 1)

(Note 1) If you would like to use it, please refer to the page for those who are considering using unlicensed childcare facilities.

Type and outline of childcare business (the reason for use, purpose, etc. differ.)

Type and overview of childcare business (custody method)
Type name Overview

Use of licensed nursery schools (admission)

It can be used when parents have reasons for needing childcare (4 hours or more a day, working 16 days or more per month, etc.).
For more information, please refer to the application for use of licensed nursery schools.

Fiscal year Limited Childcare Business This is a business to take care of 1.2-year-old children who could not use the nursery school for a limited time by utilizing the empty space of a nursery school and a spare nursery room with plenty of room.

Holiday childcare and holiday temporary childcare

If your child cannot be nursed at home on Sunday or public holidays due to work reasons, this is a system to take care of your child at a nursery. Details are a system in which children are kept at a nursery when they cannot take care of their children at home on Sunday or public holidays due to work reasons.
For details, please see the page on holiday childcare and temporary childcare on holidays.

Temporary childcare

This system provides childcare at elementary school student in order to reduce the burden on parents in cases where childcare is temporarily difficult due to part-time employment, illness, hospitalization, etc.
For more information, please visit the following page.

Temporary custody services for infants

We will take care of your child for any reason. As a supporter of familiar child care, it will help you.
For more information, please refer to the following page.

24-hour emergency temporary childcare

If you have to leave your child urgently due to a parent's illness or work, we will respond 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including at night and lodging.
For more information, please see the page about 24-hour emergency temporary childcare.

Sick Child Care Business

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.
For more information, please see the Sick Child Care Business page.

Post-Sick Child Care Business

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.
For more information, please see the post-sick childcare business page.


Kindergarten custody business

For a list of facilities in Minami Ward, please check the Minami Ward page of kindergarten and certified child institution.

Type and overview of kindergarten custody
Type name Overview
Yokohama City Private Kindergarten and other custody services

There are kindergartens and certified children's schools that carry out long-term custody from 7:30 am to 6:30 pm (until 3:30 pm on Saturday) even during long holidays such as summer vacation.
Specifically, please see page of custody childcare business such as Yokohama-shi private kindergartens.

Kindergarten's own custody business There are kindergartens that have established their own custody system and are implementing them.
Please contact each facility for custody time zone, fee, implementation date, etc.

For inquiries to this page

Children and Families Support Division, South Health and Welfare Center

Phone: 045-341-1149

Phone: 045-341-1149

Fax: 045-341-1145

Email address: mn-kodomokatei@city.yokohama.jp

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