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We would like to introduce MIRAI LABO KIDS, an English-friendly, very flexible private daycare located near Shibuya station in Tokyo.

Please contact them directly to apply or have any questions.

▼MIRAI LABO∞KIDS：

・Private nursery（認可外保育園）：Temporary and regular childcare

・Pre-Japanese school

・Rental space service

※English and French speaker staff available !

▼Opening hours：

・Monday～Friday（8:30～18:00）※Extended childcare（18:00～20:00）

・Saturday, Sunday and Holiday（9:00～18:00）※Extended childcare（18:00～20:00）

▼Adress：

〒150-0001 

5-29-9 102, jungumae, Shibuya, Tokyo

（東京都渋谷区神宮前5-29−9めぐみハイマンション 102）

Tel：03-6451-1505

Mail：info@mirai-labo8.com

URL：https://www.mirailabo-kids.com/

Run by：MIRAI∞LABO inc.（http://www.mirai-labo8.com/）

■Our features：

▼Various services suiting different lifestyles

・Time charge ticket childcare

 (Service available for weekday, weekend and holiday, from 1h~ within the time that you charged. 3types of ticket：40h, 80h and 160h, available for 3 months)

・Temporary（one day） childcare 

(Service available for weekday, weekend and holiday, from 2h~)

・Regular childcare

（Service available for Monday through Friday regularly)

▼Original method

Facility and curriculum based on brain science and clinical psychology

・Main equipments

• Artificial grass
• Bouldering wall
• Flying rings
• Climbing ropes
• Only carefully selected toys stimulating children’s imagination
  etc.

・Different activities provided everyday

• Monday：Design
• Tuesday：Foreign language
• Wednesday：Kids yoga
• Thursday：Music
• Friday：Gymnastic
• Everyday：Art

＊Monthly theme is also set such as, dietary education, sound, water, insect etc.

▼Diversity 

・Different age childcare 

Sometimes being order brother or order sister and sometimes being younger brother or younger sister. It helps children grow in areas of development: social, moral and thoughtful consideration to others.

・Different cultures and international environment

As Shibuya is a city full of diversity, it is the same in our preschool. There are children coming from all over the world and many children have dual nationalities. Children live here an everyday life enjoying diversity.

▼Japanese culture and tradition

We value Japanese culture and tradition through daily life. At every meal, we say together « Itadakimasu » (いただきます) before starting to eat, and « Gochisousamadesu » (ごちそうさまです ) after filling our stomachs. 

At the beginning of month, we visit a shrine to show our gratitude that we feel everyday life and pray for good and healthy life in this month.

Furthermore, there are opportunities that children can experience different Japanese cultures, such as Japanese tea ceremony, Japanese calligraphy, Japanese summer festival etc,

Through such experiences of Japanese culture and tradition, children are able to broaden their horizons and mind and feel grateful for everyday life. This kind of experiences would be meaningful as « pre-Japanese school » for children coming from overseas.

■Rental space service：

Our nursery is available for rent during weekend.

Available for various ways：birthday party, meetings, welcome and farewell party, seminar, workshop etc.

*Price：1h/15,000yen（ex.）、3h/36,000円（ex.）

※Service included：Free wifi, toys, microwave, bluetooth speaker, piano etc.

※For more info→https://peraichi.com/landing_pages/view/mirailabo-space

From late October and early November is the season for daycare and kindergarten application for April 2021 start. We can help you understand the application process and documents. We also set up your appointments with your local daycare and kindergartens to apply.

April is the best time to be accepted at daycare and kindergartens as Japanese schools start a new semester from April. There are usually many open spots available.

The application deadline is closed in November or December, be careful not to miss this – daycare and kindergartens do not accept a new application after the deadline.

For assistance request and inquiry please email us at contact@japanhealthinfo.com

We assisted daycare application for our client, Marc-Antoni and received wonderful feedback!

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Japan Healthcare Info (JHI) is a wonderful service! My family and I recently moved from Canada
and we discovered this service online while Googling away for all the help we could get with
integrating here in Japan. Our son was about 15 months old at the time, and we were exploring
daycare options online when we learnt that JHI could also assist with filing and prepping for his
entry into the Japanese daycare system.

For those of you with families, or little ones on the way, you may have already heard how
notoriously difficult it is to get your child placed into the public daycare system. Indeed, despite
Japan’s low birthrate, Tokyo in particular seems to have babies everywhere! It’s great to see all
the mommies and daddies cycling around with an occupied child-seat at each end of the bicycle
or strapped into a baby carrier. I’m totally impressed by all the parents going about their day
while juggling their little ones. However, all this remarkable baby management is also a
reflection of the fact that there is not enough supply in childcare services to meet the demand.
Apparently, the government is working on it, and many more daycares are on the way, but this
also implies that placement is hard to come by and can be quite expensive. We had our little
one in a private daycare for the first 6 months, and the full-time monthly fee was actually
comparable to our rent! Why many couples we know decide to keep one parent at home to
provide childcare, especially if there is more than one child.

Enter the JHI. We quickly received a response to our request for assistance and have felt
supported ever since! Navigating all the government bureaucracy is certainly a skill. It truly is
another language. My wife is Japanese, and she can speak and read the language quite well in
most cases, but this paperwork is a different beast altogether. Indeed, the number of rejected
applicants is quite indicative of this. It’s not a Japanese language issue, as much as it is a
governmental language issue, and thankfully the JHI has the skill and experience to get you
through it!

I can happily announce that our little one has since been enrolled into the public daycare
system, and I have absolutely no doubt it was thanks to Sara and the JHI. The assistance saved
us considerable stress and the new daycare is saving us a great deal of money. I would very
highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for help in breaking through into the Japanese
public daycare system.

Sincerely,
Marc-Antoni
Meguro-ku, Tokyo

We are now working with an obgyn clinic that provides an online consultation in English and prescribes oral contraceptive pills. You do not have to travel to the clinic in person, simply have a consultation online and they will post-mail the pills anywhere in Japan. This will be a very convenient option for people living outside big cities.

Feel free to contact us for arrangement.

New article is updated on Medical Subsidies page.

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