Those who take care of new children

Please confirm use guidance (city version) or required documents from the next link.
○　For those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2025

Application acceptance was finished on Wednesday, November 6, 2024. The results of usage adjustment will be announced by the beginning of February 2025.

If you decide on a job in the primary use adjustment, you will not be eligible for secondary use adjustment. Also, if you decline the job offer, you will not be able to apply for a secondary application.

1. If you wish to use the same sibling facility or business
2. In the case of relocation (requires to decline a job offer)

※You need to submit a set of documents again. If you decide to make a second use adjustment in 1, you will not be able to use the garden that has been decided in the primary use adjustment.

Those who are suspended due to the primary use adjustment will be automatically subject to secondary use adjustment. If you wish to change your preferred garden or change the reason for needing childcare, please submit required documents by the deadline.

After the primary use adjustment, the secondary use adjustment will be made if the capacity is still less than the capacity or if there is a vacancy due to the decline of the job offerer. Those who are suspended due to the primary use adjustment will be automatically subject to secondary use adjustment.

From Monday, January 6, Reiwa 7 to Monday, February 10, Reiwa 7

The addition of missing documents and correction of incomplete documents must arrive on Monday, February 10. Documents received after the deadline will be treated as applications for use after May 2025.

• April 1, 2025 Number of applicants (PDF: 234KB)(As of January 27, 2025)
• List of nursery schools and kindergartens in 2025 (PDF: 198KB)
• 2025 nursery school, kindergarten map (PDF: 9,181KB)

Please submit to the 25th window on the 2nd floor of the main building of the Sakae Ward Office.

Please submit it to the Sakae Ward Office. The deadline must arrive.
<Address>
〒247-0005 303-19, Katsuracho, Sakae-ku, Yokohama-shi
Addressed to Children and Families Support Division, Sakae Ward Office
※We are not responsible for any postal accidents. (If you want to keep a record of mail, there is a method such as "special record mail".)

Please apply from the following link (Yokohama-shi Web site). Submissions up to 23:59 on the deadline will be valid.
[Start use in April 2025 (secondary application)] Online application for use of daycare centers
※We are not responsible for communication failures, etc., so please apply in advance.

The results of usage adjustment will be announced around March 10, 2025.
In addition, when it becomes pending as a result of primary use adjustment and becomes pending in secondary use adjustment, we do not send notice of reservation again (except when there is addition such as use hope nursery schools).

If you wish to use a licensed nursery school outside the city, please check with the municipal office of the required documents and the deadline, and submit the required documents to the 25th floor of the main building of the Sakae Ward Office at least 10 days prior to the deadline.

In order to use nursery schools, you need to apply for certification and use of benefits to Children and Families Support Division in your ward.
For details, please refer to the following page.

　For those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2024
　For those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2025

※ Nursery schools, etc.: Facilities and businesses such as licensed nursery schools, certified child institution (childcare use), home-based childcare business, small-scale childcare business, and in-house childcare business (regional frame)

※ Please apply for the following facilities directly to the facility.
　・Yokohama Nursery Room
　　＊You need to apply for benefits certification to Children and Families Support Division in your district.
　・Non-licensed childcare facilities
　　＊In order to be eligible for free of charge, it is necessary to apply for certification to Children and Families Support Division in your ward.
　　About application for certification of free benefits for those who use non-licensed childcare facilities, etc.
　・Company-led childcare facilities
　　＊In order to be eligible for free of charge, you may need to apply for certification to Children and Families Support Division in your ward.
　　

Please contact us in advance if you wish to apply for a nursery school for children with disabilities, children who are worried about development, or children who need individual support or medical considerations.
　Consultation Service: 25th window on the 2nd floor of the ward office main building

Yokohama-shi performs adjustment such as available nursery schools from nursery schools that protector wants.
In adjustment, we perform rank judgment based on "standard about Yokohama-shi payment authorization and use adjustment" and judge priority.
　Standards for Yokohama City Benefit Authorization and Use Adjustment

We explain application method and schedule of nursery schools in an easy-to-understand manner in about 10 minutes.

▪ Application is valid within the year.
▪ Procedures are required if you wish to add or change the garden, or if you want to withdraw your application.
　Please come to the Sakae Ward Office No. 25, or send us the "registration form (PDF: 845KB)".

※ Please contact your employer or Hello Work for procedures for childcare leave benefits.

▪ For use of kindergartens, please contact each facility directly.
▪ After admission, please receive the necessary documents for the certification application from the facility and submit it to the facility.
▪ When application documents are submitted to ward office from facility and are authorized, ward office sends "benefit authorization decision letter of advice" to protector.
Parents should present this to the facility and sign a usage contract.

　For those who wish to use kindergartens, etc. in 2024
　For those who wish to use kindergartens, etc. in 2025

※ Kindergarten, etc.: Kindergarten, Certified Children's Center (for Educational Use), Special Needs School Kindergarten

※ Some kindergartens and certified children's schools carry out "custody childcare" that conducts educational activities for children before and after educational hours. . It can be used for reasons such as sudden errands or employment of parents.
　Since the implementation status of "custody childcare" differs depending on each garden, please contact each garden directly for usage and fees.