I want to apply for a nursery school

We have created a "Procedure Guide" that guides you through the application for use of nursery schools and the procedure for free certification of kindergartens and unlicensed childcare facilities.
Please use it for confirmation of necessary/required procedures.
Click here for the procedure guide. → Tsurumi Ward Children and Families Support Division Procedure Guide (outside site)

Specifically, please confirm "to one hoped for the use such as nursery schools in 2025".

From October 10, 2024 to November 6, 2024 (postmark valid)
※[Notes] Please submit payment authorization application, use application (for nursery schools) by all means by November 6. Even if you submit it as a missing document at a later date, it will be subject to secondary use adjustment.
※Please submit the addition, order change, and missing documents of the desired garden by November 28, 2024 (postmark valid).

・In principle, it will be a mail application to the Certification / Usage Coordination Office or an online application. Applications cannot be accepted at the counter.
・Address by mail (no Address required): 231-8350 City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau Certified and Use Coordination Office
・Please put the set of application documents (for details, see "For those who wish to use nursery schools in 2025") in a special envelope containing the usage guidance and submit it by mail.
・If you are applying online, be sure to check the City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau website before applying.

In the following cases, you must apply to the Tsurumi Ward Office Children and Families Support Division.

• If you wish to use a nursery school outside Yokohama City
• For children who need individual assistance
• If you apply for use before birth (you can also apply by mail)

※In addition, procedure about nursery school in ward office window does not perform on Saturday open agency day. Thank you for your understanding.

Data on usage guidance and application forms can be downloaded on the City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau website from October 1, 2024.
In addition, booklets of styles such as use guidance, application forms will be distributed at the following locations from October 10, 2024. (* Please note that the number is limited outside the Tsurumi Ward Office.)

• Tsurumi Ward Office Children and Families Support Division (3rd floor, 4th window)
• Tsurumi Station West Exit Administrative Service Corner
• Municipal and licensed nursery schools in the city, certified children's schools, small-scale childcare businesses
• Community care plaza in ward
• Wakun Hiroba
• Gathering open space for parents and children

[Other window distribution documents]
Please refer to the following documents when applying.
（１） Tsurumi Ward Usage Guide for FY2025 (PDF: 352KB)
※Please confirm in conjunction with use guidance such as Yokohama-shi nursery schools in 2025.
（２） April 2025 Number of new admissions to nursery schools in Tsurumi Ward (as of September 1, 2024) (PDF: 78KB) [Announced on October 10]
（３） Status of securing of promotion destinations after graduation of small-scale childcare business (as of October 1, 2024) (PDF: 124KB)
（４） List of nursery schools in 2025 (as of October 1, 2024) (PDF: 299KB)
（５） Maps such as nursery schools in 2025 (as of October 1, 2024) (PDF: 17,111KB)
※For multilingual version of the map for nursery schools, etc. (“Tsurumi Ward Map of Nursery Facilities” in Multilingual)
Please refer to the following page.

From Friday, September 13, 2024, only employment certificates have been released and distributed (4th window on the 3rd floor of Tsurumi Ward Office).
You can also download it from the City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau website.

• 2025 Employment Certificate (PDF: 355KB)
• 2025 Employment Certificate (Excel: 80KB)
• About mention method of employment certificate in 2025 (with mention example) (PDF: 578KB)

※Please be sure to check "How to enter a work certificate" when filling out. In addition, please hand it to the person in charge when requesting the entry from the place of work.
※If the certification date is less than 6 months before the submission date, or if there are any omissions or errors, it may be disadvantaged in the priority (rank or index) of payment authorization and usage adjustment . Thank you for your understanding.

〇 Please also check the City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau website when applying for use.

Oh Please refer to the following document for the expected number of accepted units in each month of use.
　The expected number of acceptances will be announced on or after the 1st of the previous month of each usage start month.　
Number of people who can enter Tsurumi Ward Nursery School in January 2025 (as of December 1, 2024) (PDF: 149KB)

〇 During the application period corresponding to the month you wish to use (see below), you can mail to the ward office or apply at the ward office window (4th floor on the 3rd floor). .
　Please note that all application deadlines must arrive.
　In the case of application by mail, please send it to the following address.
　Address 3-20-1 Tsurumi-Chuo, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0051
　Tsurumi Ward Office Children and Families Support Division, 2024 Nursery School Application

〇 As a general rule, please submit by mail.
　It may be difficult to confirm the arrival of the documents, so if you are uneasy, please use simple registered mail.
　Please note that the submitted documents cannot be returned. We recommend that you copy the complete application form and keep it at hand.

〇 Person who hopes for the use such as authorized nursery schools outside Yokohama-shi, please apply at ward office window (the fourth floor on the third floor).

○Children who need special assistance, such as disability, severe food allergies, delayed development and development, or children who need medical care, must consult with Children and Families Support Division in your ward before applying.

〇 The application for use is valid until March 2025 unless the use is decided. If you do not wish to use a nursery school, please submit "registration form to Children and Families Support Division, where you live.

〇 Immediately before the deadline, applications are concentrated, and it takes time to review the documents and contact the missing documents, so please submit them as soon as possible.

〇 Please note that procedures related to nursery schools are not performed on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays (including Saturday open agency days).

Data on usage guidance and application forms can be downloaded on the City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau website.
※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.
In addition, booklets in styles such as usage guidance and application forms are distributed at the following locations. (* Please note that the number is limited outside the Tsurumi Ward Office.)

• Tsurumi Ward Office Children and Families Support Division (3rd floor, 4th window)
• Tsurumi Station West Exit Administrative Service Corner
• Community care plaza in ward
• Municipal and licensed nursery schools in the city, certified children's schools, small-scale childcare businesses, home-based childcare businesses
• Wakun Hiroba, Wakun Hiroba Satellite
• Gathering open space for parents and children

• To those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2024 (Yokohama City page)Please refer to “2. Documents Required for Application in 2024” in “2.

• Request for Transfer (PDF: 121KB)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Please submit if you are unable to submit a contract indicating moving in, such as moving to your parents' home.
• Divorce Presence Separation Petition (PDF: 113KB)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Please submit this if you are separated on the premise of divorce (resident certificate has already been transferred) and apply as a single parent.
• Petition (PDF: 56KB)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　If you do not fall under the above, please submit it as necessary.

Please refer to the following documents when applying.
（１） Tsurumi Ward Usage Guide for FY2024 (PDF: 539KB)
※Please confirm in conjunction with use guidance such as Yokohama-shi nursery schools in 2024.
（２） Status of securing of promotion destinations after graduation of small-scale childcare business (as of October 1, 2024) (PDF: 124KB)
（３） List of nursery schools in 2024 (as of April 1, 2024) (PDF: 723KB)
（４） Maps such as nursery schools in 2024 (as of April 1, 2024) (PDF: 17,118KB)
（５） 2024 use application confirmation slip (please attach at the time of application) (PDF: 246KB)
※For the multilingual version of the map for nursery schools (“Tsurumi Ward Map of Nursery Facilities” in Multilingual), please see the pages in various languages.

You can also download it from the City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau website.
It is also distributed at the 4th window on the third floor of the ward office.

• 2024 Employment Certificate (PDF: 604KB)
• 2024 Employment Certificate (Excel: 72KB)
• About mention method of employment certificate in 2024 (with mention example) (PDF: 779KB)

※Please be sure to check "How to enter a work certificate" when filling out. In addition, please hand it to the person in charge when requesting the entry from the place of work.
※If there are any omissions or errors, it may be disadvantaged in the priority (rank or index) of usage adjustment. Thank you for your understanding.

• Pledge and certificate (PDF version) about employment such as nursery teachers (PDF: 284KB)
• Pledge and certificate (Word version) about employment such as nursery teachers (word: 29KB)

※There is an entry field in the form. Please submit it after obtaining proof of your place of employment.

<Priority handling of children of 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 workers has become an urgent issue. In addition, securing childcare workers is a common issue especially for cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and it is expected that the situation will become even more difficult in the future.
Since it is considered that it is difficult for nursery teachers to use nursery schools, etc., it is difficult to secure nursery teachers, targeting nursery teachers who live in Yokohama City and work at nursery schools in Yokohama City Priority handling has been introduced since the usage adjustment in April 2018.
In addition, since the application for use in April 2023, the target qualifications, facilities and businesses have been expanded, and since the application for use in April 2024, the handling has been expanded as follows.
・Priority handling to raise two ranks
・Review the requirements for the number of days and hours of working in the nursery teacher rank (A)
・Nursery teachers living outside the city will be treated in the same way as those living in the city

<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.