Children's Centers and After-School Clubs

Children's Centers

Children's Centers help enliven various activities involving community children. In addition, the centers are used as a place for children to play and conduct activities. There are 27 Children's centers in the city and Higashi-Nakano Work Office.

Regular Activities

The facilities are designed so anyone can visit the Children's center freely, play and make friends independently and actively in a relaxed atmosphere.

Events

The center offers assistance so that children can expand regular activities, achieve unusual things and conduct activities independently.

Community Activities

The following activities are conducted to enrich the educational potential of the community:

1. A Children's center-operated council is held consisting of various people from the community.
2. Equipment and meeting rooms are available for rent to child-rearing groups in the community.
3. Networks involving children are organized.

Hours

10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturdays and school holidays, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(For more information on the hours, please contact your local Children's center.)

Those Who Can Use the Centers

Children between 0 and 18 years of age and their parents or guardians (as a rule, infants and toddlers must be accompanied by a parent).

Closed

Mondays, Sundays, national holidays, during the year-end/New Year holidays and whenever the Mayor deems necessary. (However, groups can use the facilities on Sundays on an independently managed basis.)

After-School Clubs

After-School Clubs protect school children who would otherwise be alone at home after school so that they can spend time in a safe place, and help them grow through play and activities.

Those Who Can Use the Clubs

Children between the 1st and 3rd Grade of elementary school who live in Nakano City who are unable to receive adult supervision at home after school with parents who fulfill any of the After-School Club User Standards.

User Standards

• (Parent's Condition)
  Work, school, technical training, job-hunting, etc.: If the parent is unable to look after the child for one and a half hours or more after school for three or more days of the week.
  Illness: If the parent is hospitalized or convalescing at home (chronically ill).
  Nursing: If the parent needs to accompany/nurse someone.
  Disability: If the parent has a Physically Disabled Person's Handbook Level 4 or an Ai-no-Techo (Mentally Disabled Person's) Handbook Level 4 or higher
• (Child's Condition)
  If attendance at an After-School Club for one and a half hours or more for three or more days of the week is considered normal

Days

After-school clubs are open every day from Monday through Saturday, excluding Sundays, national holidays, during the year-end/New Year holidays and whenever the Mayor deems necessary.

Hours

Monday through Friday, after school until 6:00 p.m.
Saturdays, school holidays and when the school as a unit is closed, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Inquiries: Support Center for Families with Children in The Community , Support center for families with children in the community Section
• Tel: 3228-8934