For Parents and Children/ 子育て

Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center

Phone: 048-930-7827

 When your pregnancy is confirmed at a medical institution, please submit a Pregnancy Notification at the Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center (Reservation required). 

 A public health nurse or a mid-wife will meet with all pregnant women and issue a Mother and Child Health Handbook (foreign language versions are also available). A gift (including information on Notice of Childbirth Support Benefit and a maternity strap) will be provided at the interview.

 You need to fill in the expected delivery date, the number of weeks of pregnancy, name of medial institution and address in the pregnancy notification form.

◆ If a notification is made by the mother-to-be:

• Individual Number Card or Notification Number, Identification document (e.g., driver’s license, passport)

◆ If a notification is made by a proxy:

• A letter of attorney, Identification document of the proxy, Individual Number Card or notification card of mother-to-be

 Please refer to the Misato City official website for the place of issuance, open days and time.

（URL https://misato.city-ca.jp/）

Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center

Phone: 048-930-7827

 The expenses for each checkup will be covered by public expense. The expenses that exceed the amount covered by the public expense and/or the expenses for examinations not listed on the coupon will be on your account. Subsidy coupons are usable only at medical institutions that have a commissioning contract with Misato City. If you receive the checkups at medical institutions that do not have a contract with the City, checkup fee paid by you will be subsidized. Please submit the necessary documents such as the receipts to Parent and Child Health Section within 1 year after the delivery date. (For details, please see Misato City official website.) If you move to the other municipality, be sure to exchange them with those issued by the municipality which you move in as the subsidy coupons of Misato City are not usable.

Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center 

Phone: 048-930-7827

 It is a general consultation desk which covers pregnancy/childbirth to childrearing periods; it provides consultation regarding pregnancy/ childbirth, childrearing, childcare and information about how to use services.

Consultation days: Monday through Friday

Consultation hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Priority for reservation)

*To make a consultation appointment, please call or scan the reservation page from the 2D Barcode noted in the section ‘Pregnancy Notification/ Issuance of Mother and Child Health Handbook.

Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center 

Phone: 048-930-7827

 A maternity nurse or a public health nurse etc. will visit all families with a newborn baby/ babies up to 4 months of age to check health conditions of the mother and the child and deliver information on applying for Childrearing Support Benefits and information on childcare in the community. 

Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center 

Phone: 048-930-7827

 It is a program to help postpartum mothers who are unable to receive sufficient support in household chores and childrearing matters after the birth and in poor mental and physical health conditions or have childrearing anxieties use obstetric clinic/ hospital with their babies (age under 4 months old) to receive mental and physical cares and childrearing supports (with a partial co-payment). Please consult with the section for details.

Children and Families Section, Children and Families Center 

Phone: 048-930-7780

 It is a system that allows expectant mothers who have difficulty in paying the childbirth expenses due to financial reasons to give a birth at ease in a designated maternity clinic/ hospital. Co-payment is to be borne by users in accordance with the income. It is necessary to have consultations before using this system.

Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center       

Phone: 048-930-7827

 This class offers lectures and practices on how to spend maternity life, childbirth, and childrearing. Please feel free to attend as a place to make friends and exchange information.

 This class is designed for infants around from 5 to 6 months old and their parents to provide nutritionist’s lectures, cooking demonstration, individual consultation on how to start and cook solid foods.

Health Promotion Section, Health Promotion Division   

Phone: 048-930-7771

 Children can receive each vaccination individually at designated medical institutions when they are in good health.

 Misato City sends you the documents for vaccination: a bundle of sheets of the “Questionnaire for Vaccination* (in Japanese)” and a guidebook titled “Vaccination and Children’s Health” around 1 month after the birth. We also distributed to children who have moved in Misato City and have not yet entered elementary school. Be sure to fully understand the expected effects and side reactions of each vaccine before receiving a vaccination. First, make a schedule of vaccination, and get your child vaccinated by the designated number of doses with designated vaccination intervals during the designated period. (Please make use of the ‘Automatic VACCINATION Scheduler’.)

Fees for vaccinations:

 During vaccination period designated by law, the vaccination fee will be on public account.

What to bring:

• Mother and Child Health Handbook
• Identification document (proving address and age)
• Questionnaire for Vaccination

*There is no regulation regarding vaccination intervals for different vaccines except between injective live vaccines.

*Be sure to receive the same vaccine in accordance with the intervals required by law etc.

 If your child cannot receive vaccination at a designated medical institution in Misato City due to special reasons such as childbirth in home town or disease, pleases make sure to contact the Health Promotion Division in advance.

Health Promotion Section, Health Promotion Division   

Phone: 048-930-7771

☆Check the intervals between doses when you make an immunization plan.

 If your child receives a vaccination outside of designated intervals and eligible ages, the fees will be fully on your account.

Health Promotion Section, Health Promotion Division

Phone: 048-930-7771

URL https://misato.city-hc.jp/

 It is a service to provide information regarding your child’s health including Misato City’s vaccination, health checkups for children and search for medical institutions. If you use the ‘Kai-Tsubu Navi’ application, it will automatically create a vaccination schedule customized for your child and notify you of the vaccination day when it is approaching. 

 You can use this application from smartphones, mobile phones, and computers. 

 The registration and user fee will be free of charge but the fee for communication and packet will be on your account.

Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center       

Phone: 048-930-7827

 Please refer to ‘Kenko-no shiori’, or ‘Health Guide’ (in English) for details of this program. ‘Kenko-no shiori’ is distributed every March along with ‘Koho Misato’. It is available at public facilities in the City.

Misato City Dental Association

Phone: 048-949-2100

(10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. on weekdays)

 Dental consultation and free topical application of fluoride are provided six times in a year.

Child Benefits Section, Children and Families Center       

Phone: 048-930-7781

 The child allowance is provided to those who are rearing a child up to the first March 31 after he/she turns 18 years old.

Child Benefits Section, Children and Families Center     

Phone: 048-930-7781

 Misato City subsidizes a partial medical expense co-payment for a child up to the first March 31 after he/she turns 18 years old.

Benefit Section, Welfare for Residents with Disabilities Division

Phone: 048-930-7779

 This allowance is provided to severely disabled children under the age of 20 who needs constant care in their daily lives at home. Income and other restrictions apply.

Benefit Section, Welfare for Residents with Disabilities Division 

Phone: 048-930-7779

 Special childrearing allowance is provided to those who are raising children with certain mental or physical disability. Income and other restrictions apply.

Child Benefits Section, Children and Families Center     

Phone: 048-930-7781

 This allowance is provided to those who are rearing a child whose livelihood is separated from his/her father or mother due to death or divorce; those who are rearing a child whose father or mother has a certain disability; and those who are rearing a child on behalf of his/her absent parent. Income and other restrictions apply. (Eligible age: Until March 31 after the child’s 18^th birthday) (However, until he/she turns 20 years old if a child has certain disability.)

 A partial medical expense co-payment will be subsidized for a single parent family or a person who is rearing a child on behalf of his/her parents with the same eligibility conditions as the Childrearing Allowance.

Tobu Chuo Fukushi Jimusho (Welfare office)   

Phone: 048-737-2359

Children and Families Section, Children and Families Center

Phone: 048-930-7780

 The welfare loan is available to a single parent bringing up a child, aiming to support his/her financially independence or improve the child’s welfare. The loan should finance such as school fee, expenses for entering school, vocational training or relocation.

Children and Families Section, Children and Families Center

Phone: 048-930-7780

 When a single parent attends a training school or institution to acquire a qualification for the purpose to find a work or prepare for a higher career, Misato City subsidizes a part of the expense.

Children and Families Section, Children and Families Center   

Phone: 048-930-7785

Parent and Child Health Section, Children and Families Center

Phone: 048-930-7827

 The general service counter collects and provides information about various services offered in the city to support child rearing family. You can consult on your concern, and if it is necessary, we will introduce you to an adequate organization or specialist who can support you. If you have any concerns or inquiries, do not hesitate to contact us.

 Those who have children up to the age of 17 can consult a counselor about various issues regarding their children.

Misato Family Support Center

Phone: 048-930-7748

 Both those who would like to help with childcare and those who need assistance with childcare can become a member. This is paid service and you can use this service at the following occasions: when you need someone to take care of your child before or after the service hours of your child care institution, when you need someone to take your child to and from your child care institution.

 Those who live or work in Misato, Soka, Koshigaya, Yashio, Yoshikawa and Matsubushi and have children ages between o-year-old and up to the 6^th grade of elementary school. 

 Those who are 20 years old or above, live in Misato City, can receive lectures conducted by Family Support Center, and can support families with children to spend safe and sound; or those who are childrearing supporters. 

Emergency Support Center Saitama 

Phone: 048-297-2903 

(7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., Available on Saturdays and Sundays)

 Local Emergency Support Center member provides a paid service when you need to leave your child who is 6 grader of elementary school or under in someone’s care in the event of such emergency as you go on an overnight business trip, you need to unexpectedly work overtime or similar (chargeable).

*To use services and receive subsidy for medical expenses and allowances, you need to take application procedures.

 Please inquire with the division (or, see Misato City official website), as necessary documents vary according to the benefits.

 Tsudoi-no Hiroba is a meeting place (named ‘salon’) for parents rearing a child. Feel free to visit as a place to expand your circle of friends or having fun with your child(ren). Consultation about child rearing is available throughout the service hours.

 It is a meeting place for parents rearing their infants to promote childrearing groups and activities.

Monday through Saturday:

9:00 a.m. - noon and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Place: 1- 415 Takano (Inside ‘Coby PreSchool Misato Nagatoro’)

Phone: 048-951-7661

Monday through Saturday:

9:00 a.m. - noon and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Place: 1F, The Lions Misato Chuo, 1-2-1 Chuo

Phone: 048-953-6625

Children’s Club Section, Educational General Affairs Division    

Phone: 048-930-7755

 Children’s club aims at healthfully fostering elementary school children, whose guardian(s) is regularly out of home during the daytime due to work or for other reasons.

URL  https://www.city.misato.lg.jp/kosodate_kyoiku/kodomoazukeru/hokagojidoclub/index.html

Three children’s centers of the city are the safe and freely accessible facilities for infants with guardians and children under 18 years old.

Phone: 048-957-2100

Phone: 048-955-7203

Phone: 048-959-6631

*From April 2025, the three children’s centers open under the same rules.

<Open hours>

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (No service is available from noon to 1:00 p.m.)

*Please inquire with the children’s center as it sometimes opens at noon. 

*Exclusively open hours for junior and high school students (from 5:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.). Please check each children’s center’s website.

 <Closed>

 The facilities may be closed the day before events and festivals or for facility maintenance.

Child Care Section, Child Care Division    

Phone: 048-930-7784

 Child Care Institutions are places which provide care to children whose parents or guardians are unable to take care adequately at home due to reasons such as employment or illness. If you would like your child to be enrolled in a child care institution such as a child care center, an certified centers for early childhood education (ECEC centers), a small child care institution, or child care services in the workplaces, you need to receive “Approval on the necessity of child care service.” You will be eligible to use the service as long as the approval is valid.

 If your child’s necessity of childcare is approved, his/her period of enrollment will be continued. Your child must leave the child care institution if he/she is no longer approved the necessity of childcare service because of his/her parent’s quitting a job or a false application is made for admission.

*Those children attending to the following child care institutions (i.e., Misato Shirayuri Hoikuen, Wasedakko Chuo Hoikuen, Sanpiko Hoikuen, Nichii Kids Shim-Misato Hoikuen, Misato Waseda Smart Smile Hoikuen, Misato Chuo Suzuran Hoikuen, MIRATZ Misato Chuo Dai-1 Hoikuen, MIRATZ Misato Chuo Dai-2 Hoikuen, Shiodome Hoikuen Misato Chuo, Shirayuri Nursery Room, and Himawari Hoikuen) will be examined for transfer and cared in other licensed child care institutions after advancing to a 3-year-old class.

 Temporary Child Care Service is offered for emergency situations such as a parent’s sickness and/or for needs to have time to relax and freshen up of a parent who brings up his/her child at home.

[Place]

Takasu Child Care Center

[Available hours]

Monday through Friday/ 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sundays/ 8:30 a.m. - noon 

[Eligibility]

Children and guardian(s) who are registered as residents of Misato City and those children who are aged from 1 year old to preschool in good health and suitable to join the group nursing.

[User’s fee]

• 0- to 2-year-old classes: 3,000 yen
• 3- to 5-year-old classes: 2,600 yen + Fees for school lunch: 225 ye

[Available period]

• For emergency childcare: 6 days or less per week, 4 weeks in maximum
• For freshen up: 3 days or less per week, 3 months in maximum

[Application]

 Apply to Takasu Child Care Center 5 days prior to use for freshen up and 2 days prior to use for emergency childcare. (Please note that you may need to have a registration or an interview in advance.)

[Place]

• Misato Shirayuri Hoikuen 
• Misato Shirayuri Dai-2 Hoikuen
• Misato Marina Hoikuen

  *Please inquire with each child care institution for the childcare hours, eligibilities etc.