Unlicensed and Tokyo-certified daycare fees covered up to ¥80,000/month regardless of income (ages 0-2)

For families who could not get into licensed daycare and use unlicensed facilities such as Tokyo-certified daycare (ninshō hoikusho), Koto City subsidizes daycare fees. From FY2026 (April 2026–March 2027), the brackets based on income-based resident tax and the first/second child categories were abolished, and the uniform limits became ¥80,000 per month for 0- to 2-year-old classes and ¥77,000 per month for 3- to 5-year-old classes. Different limits apply if you use unlicensed care while enrolled at a kindergarten, etc., or if you use company-led childcare facilities. From October 2026, for using unlicensed care while enrolled at a kindergarten, etc., it changed to ¥12,300 per month for 3- to 5-year-old classes and ¥17,700 per month for children who have just turned 3 in resident tax-exempt households (until September: ¥11,300 and ¥16,300); for children covered by the national free program using company-led childcare facilities, ¥36,700 per month for 3- to 5-year-old classes and ¥34,300 per month for 0- to 2-year-old classes (tax-exempt) (until September: ¥40,000 and ¥38,000).