Places to go, people to reach

Tokyo Hikikomori Support Net (Family OK)

Tokyo's official consultation service — explicitly open to family members, not just tojisha, and startable anonymously by phone, mail, or LINE. The step before an in-person step.

🕐 電話・メール・LINE相談（受付時間は公式サイトで確認） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

Nationwide Consultation-Window Finder (MHLW)

The MHLW portal's window finder. Every prefecture's Hikikomori Regional Support Center takes consultations from family members — for parents outside Tokyo, this is the first link.

🕐 いつでも（検索ページ）

💴 Free (public consultation)

Yorisoi Hotline — 24h, Free, Nationwide

A free 24/7/365 national helpline run as a government-subsidized program. The phone menu literally includes family-conflict options — one of the very few places a parent can talk at 2 a.m. Foreign-language line and text chat available.

🕐 電話 0120-279-338（24時間365日・無料）／チャット comarigoto.jp（書き込み24時間・返答 毎日16:00-22:00）／FAX 0120-773-776

💴 Free

Okaasan no Hokenshitsu — Free LINE Counseling for Futoko Parents (NPO Key Design)

A free LINE-based counseling line for parents of school-refusing children — nationwide, unlimited exchanges, the same counselor throughout. Registrants also get invited to online parent circles. Currently the lowest-barrier 'just write it down first' door in Japan.

🕐 LINEでいつでも送信可（稼働日は24時間以内に返信）／何往復でも無料・同じ相談員が継続担当

💴 Free

Miraitizu Parent Boards + 'mirai cafe' Monthly Online Parent Circle

The peer boards of a site run by mothers who've been through futoko themselves — 2,900+ threads, organized by the child's age, answered parent-to-parent, plus a monthly online parent circle and a 487-listing nationwide directory. Both the map of where to go and a place to post tonight.

🕐 掲示板は24時間投稿可／オンライン親の会 mirai cafe は毎月開催（サイト内で告知）

💴 Free

Hikikomori VOICE STATION — MHLW's Voices Portal

The health ministry's portal collecting voices of tojisha, families, and supporters. Not a consultation window — a place to read: family essays and dialogue videos as an entry point to understanding your own child.

🕐 いつでも閲覧可 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

Osaka Pref. Hikikomori Support Center — Phone Line (outside Osaka/Sakai cities)

The prefecture's first-stop phone line (Osaka and Sakai city residents go to their city centers). The pref publishes a family booklet whose own words say hikikomori is 'not laziness, not indulgence, not bad parenting' — read it, then call.

🕐 06-6697-2890（直通）月-金 10:00-16:00（祝日・年末年始除く）

💴 Free (public consultation)

'Yukkuri' — living with oya-naki-ato together

Online space centered on the question every parent carries: what happens after us.

🕐 開催日は掲載ページで (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free

Minna-net — nationwide mental-illness family associations

Pattern card: the national federation of mental-illness family associations — roughly 1,200 groups. For families where hikikomori and mental health overlap, the second nationwide net alongside KHJ.

🕐 全国約1,200の家族会・最寄りは公式サイトから

💴 Free

KHJ Saitama Keyaki Family Association

Exact location shared when you contact them — the circle shows the general area.

Led by Taguchi Yurie (who appears in our interview index). A model of a deep local branch: monthly meetings, study sessions, individual and free phone consultations, plus sibling and developmental-disability groups, and practical publications like 'Money Plans for After the Parents Are Gone.'

🕐 月例会・学習会・個別相談・無料電話相談（開催日は要確認） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 ¥2,000 to join + ¥10,000/year per family

OSD Yorisoi Network — 'After the Parents' Planning

Founded by parents to face the question head-on: what happens after we die. Strong on the practical side — money, housing, guardianship.

🕐 オンラインサロン・相談（公式で確認）／月1回Zoomの居場所サロンは画面オフ・ミュート・チャットのみ参加も可 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Membership: ¥3,000 to join + ¥12,000/year (or ¥1,200/month); paid consultations from ¥5,500

Raku no Kai Leela (Tokyo family NPO)

Tokyo's anchor family-association NPO — monthly meetings (redesigned in April 2026 for easier first visits), study sessions, and ward-commissioned programs across Kita, Shinjuku, Meguro, and Machida. Online slots for family members, plus a bimonthly PDF round-up of every local family group in Tokyo.

🕐 月例会（2026年4月にリニューアル・参加しやすさ重視の新形式）ほか各区委託事業。日程は公式サイト (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Monthly meeting ¥1,500 members / ¥2,000 non-members (¥1,000 entry, annual dues from ¥5,000)

📊 See busy times on Google Maps ↗

Fukuoka City Hikikomori Family Class

Exact location shared when you contact them — the circle shows the general area.

The city's official family class on communication approaches — running in fiscal 2026, with links to the city's two hikikomori support centers on the same page.

🕐 要事前予約：ひきこもり専門電話 092-737-8829（火・木・第1第3水 10:00〜13:00）。令和8年度も開催中 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

KHJ Machida Family Association

📍 東京都町田市野津田町3577-3

KHJ's Machida branch — a monthly in-person family circle in southern Tama. For parents in western Tokyo, the nearest 'same seat in the room' when Sugamo is too far.

🕐 月例会あり（日程はサイト参照） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

KHJ Yokohama Bara-no-Kai Family Association

Yokohama's KHJ family circle. No fixed office — monthly meetings rotate through public venues around Sakuragicho and Kannai, which is why this renders as a card, not a pin. Expert-led study sessions and small confidential tea circles too. Call or email first for the next venue.

🕐 月例会（桜木町・関内など市内会場で開催／090-5993-6340 平日17:30まで） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

Photo: 村長智

KHJ Kanagawa 'Niji-no-Kai' Family Association (c/o Kanagawa Kenmin Center)

📍 横浜市神奈川区鶴屋町2-24-2 かながわ県民センター12階 かながわボランティアセンター気付

The prefecture-level KHJ family association, reachable c/o the volunteer center inside Kanagawa Kenmin Center by Yokohama Station — the second doorway alongside Bara-no-Kai.

🕐 例会日程はブログ参照（080-2107-1171） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

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Kanagawa Pref. Hikikomori Support Center — Evening-Hours Consultation Room

📍 横浜市西区紅葉ケ丘9-1 神奈川県立青少年センター2階

A free, anonymous-OK prefectural window for any age, person or family. Two things set it apart: open until 9 p.m. (Tue/Thu/Sat), and 'be-friend' peer aides — people with lived hikikomori experience — can join your session. One of the few in-person desks a working parent can actually reach after work.

🕐 火・木・土 14:00-21:00（祝休日・年末年始除く）／無料・匿名可

💴 Free

Yokohama City Comprehensive Hikikomori Support & Youth Consultation Center

📍 横浜市保土ケ谷区川辺町5-10

Yokohama's first-stop city window — youth-track support for 15-39 and the same dial for 40+, so no one is turned away by age. Unusually for a municipal desk, there's a web form for booking a visit if phones are hard.

🕐 ひきこもり相談専用ダイヤル 045-752-8400／月-金 9:00-12:00・13:00-17:00（来所は原則予約制・電話が苦手な人向けにWeb申込フォームあり）

💴 Free (public consultation)

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NPO Osaka Niji-no-Kai (KHJ Osaka Family Association)

Osaka's KHJ family circle — its co-representative also co-chairs the national federation. The secretariat sits in Takaishi but monthly meetings run at venues around the prefecture; check the blog for the next one. The two KHJ doors in Osaka are this and Tsubasa-no-Kai in Hirakata.

🕐 月例会あり（072-265-2021／会場・日程はブログ参照） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Meeting fee ¥1,000

NPO KHJ Tsubasa-no-Kai Osaka (Hirakata)

📍 大阪府枚方市大垣内町1-3-1 マインドビル4F

The KHJ family circle for the Kitakawachi area, based near Hirakata-shi Station — a reachable seat for parents on Osaka's east side who can't easily get into the city center.

🕐 例会日程はサイト参照（090-1674-3398） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

Photo: 白猫

Osaka Futoko Parents' Exchange — 241 Meetings and Counting (L-Osaka)

📍 大阪市中央区北浜東3-14 エル・おおさか

Osaka's futoko parents' gathering, meeting #241 as of July 2026 — parents have been assembling at Temmabashi for four decades. A lecture, then breakout circles (including a fathers-only one). Walk-ins welcome, ¥500 for materials.

🕐 交流会は概ね数か月ごと・土曜午後（直近：2026-07-18 13:00-17:00）／資料代500円・申込不要 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 ¥500

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Photo: ukamuse k

Kyoto City 'Yorisoi-Tsunagu' Hikikomori Window (Hito-Machi Koryukan, 4F)

📍 京都市下京区西木屋町通上ノ口上る梅湊町83-1 ひと・まち交流館京都4階

Kyoto City's first-stop window, which explicitly lists 'I don't know how to speak to my withdrawn family member' as a valid consultation. Open Saturdays, a short walk from Kawaramachi.

🕐 075-354-8749／月-土 9:00-17:00（祝日・年末年始除く）

💴 Free (public consultation)

📊 See busy times on Google Maps ↗

Photo: bittercup Oh

Kyoto Pref. Datsu-Hikikomori Support Center — with Family Classes (Higashiyama)

📍 京都市東山区清水4丁目185-1 京都府家庭支援総合センター内

The prefecture's specialist center: phone and in-person consultation plus structured family classes with peer exchange built in. Its own materials name siblings — 'how do I relate to my withdrawn child or sibling' — the only Kyoto window that does.

🕐 075-531-5255（相談専用・無料）／来所相談は要予約。北部サテライト：福知山 0773-22-8728

💴 Free

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Photo: さへきひろのぶ

NPO Orange-no-Kai & 'RITA' Family Circle (West of Nagoya Station)

📍 名古屋市中村区竹橋町17-17 セサミタワー1F（拠点NOAH）

Founded in 2000, the Tokai region's veteran hikikomori NPO. Its RITA family circle runs one-on-one consultations, peer exchange, study sessions, and home visits — and its own mission statement names siblings alongside parents, which almost no org does.

🕐 家族会・個別相談の日程はサイト参照（052-452-2536） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

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KHJ Tokai — NPO Nadeshiko-no-Kai Family Association (Mizuho Ward)

📍 名古屋市瑞穂区柳ケ枝町1-22-7

The KHJ Tokai branch covering Aichi, Mie, and Gifu, also running the 'Friendship Nadeshiko' ibasho — officially listed in Nagoya City's own hikikomori support guide map.

🕐 月例会あり（052-882-1119／日程はサイト参照） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

Arinomama — Hikikomori Parents' Circle (Tempaku Ward)

A small Tempaku-ward parents' circle listed in Nagoya City's official guide map. It has no website of its own, so the link goes to the city's PDF — the primary source itself.

🕐 開催日は名古屋市ひきこもり支援ガイドマップ（リンク先PDF）参照 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (¥600/year volunteer insurance)

Photo: tarou fujiyama

Nagoya City Hikikomori Support Center Kanayama — Open to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, LINE Line

📍 名古屋市中区伊勢山2-9-6 4階

The Kanayama arm of the city's hikikomori window: open Saturdays, until 8 p.m. Wednesdays, with a LINE channel that routes from auto-reply to a human counselor — built for families for whom a phone call is one step too many.

🕐 月・火・木・金・土 9:00-17:00／水 9:00-20:00（祝休日・年末年始除く）052-228-3406／LINE相談あり

💴 Free (public consultation)

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KHJ Fukuoka 'Kusu-no-Kai' Family Association

The KHJ branch covering Fukuoka, Saga, and Nagasaki — listed by name on Fukuoka City's own official hikikomori page. The secretariat is a private residence, so no map pin by design; check the site for meeting venues.

🕐 月例会あり（080-6475-3216／会場・日程はサイト参照） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

KHJ Kitakyushu 'Perche' Family Association (Kokurakita Ward)

The KHJ circle for the Kitakyushu area. No website of its own, so the link goes to KHJ HQ's national branch registry — the primary source. The door for parents who can't get down to Fukuoka City.

🕐 例会日程は KHJ 本部一覧・電話で確認（090-2856-6719） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

Photo: neko kuma

Yokayoka Room — Fukuoka City Adult Hikikomori Support Center (Airef 3F)

📍 福岡市中央区舞鶴2-5-1 あいれふ3階

Fukuoka City's adult hikikomori center — clinical psychologists and social workers, free, for the person or the family, with traveling consultation days rotating through each ward roughly quarterly. A city desk that comes to your ward.

🕐 092-716-3344／月-金 10:00-17:00（第1火曜のみ 12:00-19:00）／面接は要予約・無料

💴 Free

📊 See busy times on Google Maps ↗

KHJ Hokkaido 'Hamanasu' Family Association

📍 札幌市中央区北4条西26丁目3-2

Hokkaido's KHJ family association, based near Maruyama and covering the whole island — the first family-circle number a Sapporo parent dials.

🕐 例会日程はサイト参照（011-631-0981） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

Photo: moto7 pink

'Yoridokoro' Parents' Circle — Letter Post Friend × Sapporo City (Kaderu 2.7)

📍 札幌市中央区北2条西7丁目 かでる2.7（北海道立道民活動センター）

Hokkaido's first city-commissioned ibasho, co-run by the tojisha organization Letter Post Friend and the city center. Tojisha meetings and parent meetings are held separately, twice monthly — the design principle that parents get their own room is itself the point.

🕐 月2回開催（当事者会と親の会は別日・別室）／事務局 090-3890-7048 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

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Photo: 岼音ソウ

Topos — Futoko Parents' Circle (Sapporo L-Plaza, 3rd Sunday Monthly)

📍 札幌市北区北8条西3丁目28 札幌エルプラザ

A long-running futoko parents' circle at L-Plaza by Sapporo Station's north exit — Sunday afternoons, ¥500, no booking needed. Listed by the national parents' network, which is the primary source here.

🕐 毎月第3日曜 13:00-16:00（8月・10月は休み）／当日参加費500円（会員300円）・年会費1,000円 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 ¥500

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Photo: ALFRED PHOTO FOUNDATION

Sapporo City + Hokkaido Pref. Hikikomori Support Centers (Kokoro Recovery Center, Shiroishi)

📍 札幌市白石区平和通17丁目北1-13

The prefectural and city hikikomori windows share this one building — first-stop consultation handled by psychiatrists, public health nurses, and PSWs. The city's 'Yoridokoro' family study sessions are run by this same center.

🕐 011-863-8733／月-金 9:30-12:00・13:00-16:00

💴 Free (public consultation)

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KHJ National Branch Registry — ~60 Family Circles Across 29 Prefectures

Pattern card: the family circles pinned in our 8 cities are only part of the KHJ network. The HQ registry lists ~60 branches across 29 prefectures, Hokkaido to Okinawa, with phone numbers and addresses — parents outside our mapped cities start here. KHJ's own survey found ~73% of participating families reported real change.

🕐 支部ごとに月例会・学習会・個別相談

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

Municipal Youth Comprehensive Consultation Centers

Pattern card: statutory one-stop consultation centers each municipality maintains under the Youth Development Act, serving young people (roughly through their 30s) and their families, and routing to education, welfare, or employment services. The local first stop for parents of teens and twenty-somethings.

🕐 自治体ごとに異なる (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

Kyoto Hikikomori Support Portal — Gateway to Team Kizuna & Family Learning Salons

Pattern card: the official portal of Kyoto's civic support network. Team Kizuna's four regional outreach teams, LPW-run family learning salons, and the prefecture's email-consultation door all route through here — the fastest index to Kyoto's family-side resources.

🕐 サイトは常時／各団体・各チームの開催日はポータル内で確認

💴 Free (public consultation)

Hikikomori Regional Support Centers — One in Every Prefecture & Designated City

Pattern card: by national policy, every prefecture and designated city maintains an official hikikomori support center — wherever in Japan a family lives, there is always at least one public desk to call. KHJ's compiled national list is the fastest index.

🕐 各センターごとに異なる（リンク先に全国の住所・電話一覧）

💴 Free (public consultation)

National Futoko Network — Member Parents' Circles Directory

Pattern card: the prefecture-by-prefecture member directory of the national futoko network founded in 1990. Where the Miraitizu directory (487 listings) is the comprehensive index, this is the curated one — circles vetted by three decades of network ties. Pull both.

🕐 各会ごとに異なる（都道府県別一覧）

💴 meetings a few hundred yen (some have membership fees) (est.)

Hikikomori Research Lab @ Kyushu & Hokkaido (Kato Lab)

The lab of Prof. Kato Takahiro, who founded the world's first hikikomori specialty clinic (2013, Kyushu University Hospital), now running on two bases after his April 2025 move to Hokkaido University. Its website offers the online 5-step family education program, self-check tools (HQ-25M, HiDE), and open seminars — Japan's most systematized medical-grade starting point, built on the premise that the family becomes the first supporter.

🕐 オンライン家族教室・セミナーは随時（サイトで告知）

💴 Free and up (online family classes vary by session — check the site) (est.)

Photo: K M

Kyushu University Hospital — Mood Disorders / Hikikomori Clinic (Fukuoka)

📍 福岡県福岡市東区馬出3-1-1

The lineage of the world's first hikikomori research clinic (2013). The lab explicitly continues its Fukuoka-based support after Prof. Kato's move; confirm current intake via the lab site.

🕐 受診手順・紹介状の要否は事前に確認 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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Hokkaido University Hospital Psychiatry — Hikikomori Clinic (In Preparation)

📍 北海道札幌市北区北14条西5丁目

Following Prof. Kato's 2025 appointment, Hokkaido University Hospital is building a comprehensive hikikomori care system: family-support VR sessions already run on site, and a metaverse consultation system entered joint development in 2026. Listed honestly as 'in preparation' — the next center of hikikomori clinical care in Japan.

🕐 外来は準備中。家族向けVR体験会など先行イベントはラボで告知 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital — Adolescent & Young Adult Clinic

📍 東京都世田谷区上北沢2-1-1

The metropolitan flagship psychiatric hospital's specialty clinic for adolescents and young adults, explicitly listing futoko, hikikomori, gaming disorder, and day-night reversal. Separate intake questionnaires for the person and for family — meaning family-initiated contact is built into the system. The first-choice medical door for teens in Tokyo.

🕐 初診は時間をかけて実施。予約・紹介状の要否は公式サイトで確認 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

Ashita no Kaze Clinic (Sofukai, formerly Sasaki Hospital) — Funabashi, Chiba

📍 千葉県船橋市

Exact location shared when you contact them — the circle shows the general area.

Treating hikikomori in outpatient and inpatient settings since the 1980s, and home of the world's FIRST hikikomori day-care program (1998). Psychiatrist Saitō Tamaki — who defined the concept — still sees outpatients and supervises the day care. The Tokyo area's most historied specialist institution, offering the group-based day-care route.

🕐 ひきこもりデイケアの受け入れ状況は要確認 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

Photo: yktokyo

Tokyo Met. Mental Health & Welfare Center (Shitaya, Taito — Eastern Wards)

📍 東京都台東区下谷1-1-3

The metropolitan mental-health authority for Tokyo's eastern wards. Families can consult specialists free about adolescent and young-adult issues including hikikomori — the first medical-side door for a parent unsure whether a clinic is even the right move yet.

🕐 月-金 9:00-17:00（精神保健相談は電話・面接／家族向け講座の日程は要確認） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

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Photo: 奈塚Q弥

Tokyo Met. Chubu General Mental Health & Welfare Center (Kamikitazawa, Setagaya)

📍 東京都世田谷区上北沢2-1-7

The metropolitan mental-health hub for Tokyo's western and southern wards — daytime specialist consultation plus the evening mental-health phone line it operates, catching families who can't call during working hours.

🕐 月-金 8:30-17:45（電話 03-3302-7575／夜間こころの電話相談も当センターが運営） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

📊 See busy times on Google Maps ↗

Photo: 村長智

Tokyo Met. Tama General Mental Health & Welfare Center (Nakazawa, Tama)

📍 東京都多摩市中沢2-1-3

The metropolitan mental-health authority covering all of Tama. For families outside the 23 wards, this is the medical-side first stop — phone counselors rotate, so calling back another day for a better fit is a legitimate strategy.

🕐 月-金 9:00-17:00（042-376-1111） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

📊 See busy times on Google Maps ↗

Photo: TNW-FC

Osaka City Kokoro Health Center — Psychiatrist Consultations & Family Classes (Miyakojima)

📍 大阪市都島区中野町5-15-21 都島センタービル3F

The core institution carrying Osaka City's hikikomori-support-center function: psychiatrist-led consultations and family classes since 2020, and a no-booking LINE line (Wed evenings, Sat afternoons) running fully since 2024 — rare for a major-city desk.

🕐 ひきこもり電話相談 06-6923-0090／月-金 10:00-17:00／LINE相談「ひきこもり相談＠大阪市」水 18:00-22:00・土 12:00-16:00（予約不要）

💴 Free (public consultation)

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Photo: tarou fujiyama

Nagoya City Mental Health Center 'Kokolabo' — Home of the City Hikikomori Center

📍 名古屋市中村区名楽町4-7-18

The mental-health hub housing Nagoya's hikikomori support center proper, explicitly accepting family consultations. Use in tandem with the Kanayama satellite (pp-35) depending on hours needed.

🕐 月-金 8:45-17:15（052-483-2077）

💴 Free (public consultation)

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Fukuoka Pref. Hikikomori Center & 'Family Gatherings' (Pref. Mental Health Center, Kasuga)

📍 福岡県春日市原町3-1-7

The prefectural hikikomori desk inside the mental health center, whose own family-gathering invitation reads: 'this is not a place where there are right answers and wrong ones.' Explicit support for the employment-ice-age generation too.

🕐 月-金 8:30-17:15（092-582-7510）／家族のつどいの日程は県ページで告知・センター駐車場は利用不可 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

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Hokkaido Pref. Mental Health Center — Monthly Parents' Group for Youth-Age Withdrawal

📍 札幌市白石区本通16丁目北6-34

A parents' group run by the prefectural mental-health authority itself, for parents of socially withdrawn young people. A family circle inside a medical institution — for a Sapporo parent torn between the clinical route and the peer route, this seat is both at once.

🕐 青年期親の会：毎月第4木曜 10:30-15:30（011-864-7121） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

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Photo: GODZILLA MAN

Showa Medical Univ. Karasuyama Hospital — Japan's Flagship Adult ASD/ADHD Clinic

📍 東京都世田谷区北烏山6-11-11

Since 2008, the pioneering adult developmental-disorder clinic in Japan — ASD and ADHD day-care programs, Saturday tracks for the employed, even a student program. First-visit phone line is famously hard to reach; call early on booking days.

🕐 外来 月-土 8:30-17:00／発達障害・ADHD外来の初診は電話予約 03-3308-9212（電話受付日のみ） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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Photo: 村長智

Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center — Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Fuchu)

📍 東京都府中市武蔵台2-8-29

Tokyo's pediatric flagship. Its own pages list internet gaming disorder among target conditions and name 'hikikomori prevention' as an adolescent day-care goal — the capital's anchor for getting medical eyes on early futoko.

🕐 初診3-17歳・完全紹介制（紹介状＋申込書を郵送→緊急度順に予約案内） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Free (public consultation)

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Photo: 世田谷用賀クリニック 児童・思春期精神科

Setagaya Yoga Clinic — Child-Adolescent Psychiatry Naming Futoko, Hikikomori & Gaming

📍 東京都世田谷区用賀4-3-9 MORIYA THREE 2F

A child-adolescent clinic that puts futoko, hikikomori, and gaming dependence on its own front page. Near Yoga Station, Saturday hours. First-visit slots run weekday-morning and fill — book early.

🕐 月火木金 9:00-13:00/14:30-18:30・土 9:00-13:00/14:00-17:00（水日休）03-3708-2500 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: どんぐり発達クリニック

Donguri Developmental Clinic — Pediatric Neurodevelopment Team (Komazawa)

📍 東京都世田谷区上馬3-18-11 エルフレア駒沢1階

A team-model developmental clinic — pediatric neurologists, child psychiatrists, OT/ST, psychologists, childcare staff — with parent counseling and school coordination built into the care plan, not bolted on.

🕐 月火水金土 9:00-12:00/14:00-18:00（木日休）03-5314-3288

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 新宿・代々木こころのラボクリニック

Shinjuku-Yoyogi Kokoro Lab Clinic — Weeknights to 9 p.m., Open Weekends

📍 東京都渋谷区千駄ヶ谷5-27-5 リンクスクエア新宿3F

Adult ASD/ADHD pages, weeknights to 9 and weekend hours, steps from Shinjuku Station. A large multi-doctor practice with split reviews — go in planning to find and request the doctor who fits.

🕐 平日 10:00-13:00/14:00-17:00/18:00-21:00・土日 10:00-13:00/14:00-17:00 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 赤坂心療内科クリニック

Warakukai Adult Developmental-Disorder Clinic (Akasaka; sister sites in Yokohama & Nagoya)

📍 東京都港区赤坂2-5-7 渡辺商事赤坂ビル7F

Supervised by Dr. Kato Nobumasa, founder of the Karasuyama adult clinic, inside the anxiety-specialist Warakukai group (sister clinics in Yokohama and Nagoya) — the private-sector route when university waitlists run long.

🕐 火-土 10:00-20:00（月日休）03-5544-8485／専門外来の実施曜日は要確認 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 保谷メンタルクリニック

Hoya Mental Clinic (Nishitokyo) — One of the Area's Few Concerta-Registered Practices

📍 東京都西東京市東町3-14-24 保谷駅南口メディカルモール2階

A station-front clinic in western Tokyo whose reviews agree on one thing: consultations are brief, but medication management is solid and it's one of the few nearby practices registered to prescribe Concerta — a practical maintenance option.

🕐 火水金土 9:30-13:00/14:00-17:00（月木日休）042-425-3886／初診はWeb予約 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 東京はなクリニック 渋谷区恵比寿・心療内科精神科

Tokyo Hana Clinic (Ebisu) — Adult Mixed-Profile ASD/ADHD

📍 東京都渋谷区恵比寿1-9-7

An Ebisu practice whose own pages state plainly that adult-diagnosed neurodevelopmental profiles are usually mixed — set up for the ASD+ADHD overlap that real consultations most often bring.

🕐 月火木金 9:30-12:30/14:00-17:00・土 9:30-12:30（水日休）03-5798-3458 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: こころとくらしの言の葉クリニック

Kotonoha Clinic (Shiinamachi) — Hikikomori Consultations + Home Visits, Woman Physician

📍 東京都豊島区南長崎1-25-11

A neighborhood clinic openly offering hikikomori consultations and home visits for those who can't come in. Its own words — 'withdrawing is a natural act of self-protection' — could be FTFT's. Reviews note it even walks patients through public support systems.

🕐 月火木金 9:00-12:00/13:30-17:00・土 9:00-12:00（水日休）03-6908-3260／当日初診応相談

💴 Insurance-covered plus home-visit fees (jiritsu-shien can cut the copay to 10%) (est.)

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Photo: 赤羽すずらんメンタルクリニック

Akabane Suzuran Mental Clinic (Kita) — Open Sundays, Woman Physician

📍 東京都北区赤羽1-13-1 ミドリヤビル6階

A one-minute-from-Akabane clinic publishing guidance on hikikomori and home-visit care; Concerta/Vyvanse-registered, and open Sundays — a schedule built for parents who work weekdays and young people who can move on a Sunday. Confirm current home-visit availability.

🕐 月 13:30-19:00・木 10:00-19:00・金 10:00-18:00・土日 9:30-16:00（火水休）03-5249-3233 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Medica Clinic — Psychiatric Home Visits Across Tokyo's 23 Wards, No Clinic Visit Ever Required

📍 下井病院グループ（足立区）を拠点に23区全域へ訪問

Psychiatric care that starts and stays at home — the first visit is a home visit, families can initiate, 24-hour contact as a certified home-care practice, hospital backup arranged. The realistic medical entry point while leaving the room is still impossible.

🕐 支援員が電話・訪問で聴き取り→日程調整（本人以外＝家族からの相談も受付） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered plus home-visit fees (jiritsu-shien can cut the copay to 10%) (est.)

Photo: ウルトラセブン

Kojin Clinic (Kita-Senju) — Psychiatric Home-Visit Practice

📍 東京都足立区千住1-21-7 龍ビル6F

A Senju practice whose home-visit page explicitly names 'withdrawn and unable to attend' as its target, with a built-in transition to outpatient care once things improve. Confirm current visit coverage by phone.

🕐 平日 9:00-20:00・土 9:00-15:00・日 10:00-15:30 03-3888-5988／訪問診療は要事前相談 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered plus home-visit fees (jiritsu-shien can cut the copay to 10%) (est.)

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Photo: 国立病院機構 久里浜医療センター

Kurihama Medical & Addiction Center (Yokosuka) — Japan's First Net/Gaming Specialty Unit

📍 神奈川県横須賀市野比5-3-1

The national addiction center that opened Japan's first net/gaming specialty unit in 2011 and built the GAMES screening test. Its treatment principle: confiscation makes gaming disorder worse — the country's own experts saying what families most need to hear.

🕐 平日 8:30-17:15（046-848-1550）／初診は予約制

💴 Free (public consultation)

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Photo: よこはま北星こころとからだのクリニック

Yokohama Hokusei Clinic — Adult ASD/ADHD by Yokohama Station, Open Sundays

📍 横浜市神奈川区鶴屋町2-11-3 3階

Its adult ASD/ADHD page says the goal is identifying which traits drive today's struggles, not pinning the label — a walk from Yokohama Station and open Sundays.

🕐 月火水金 10:30-13:00/15:00-19:30・土 9:00-16:00・日 10:00-16:30（木休）045-311-0018

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 横濱元町メンタルクリニック

Yokohama Motomachi Mental Clinic — Developmental Care for Adults and Children

📍 横浜市中区元町2-99 2階

A Motomachi practice whose own pages describe the realistic sequence: treat the secondary depression or adjustment disorder first, then work the underlying developmental profile — adults and children both.

🕐 月水金 9:00-13:00/15:00-18:00・木 9:00-13:00・土 9:00-14:00（火日休）045-651-5558 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: こころ発達クリニック新横浜

Kokoro Developmental Clinic Shin-Yokohama — Child Psychiatry

📍 横浜市港北区新横浜1-4-9

A dedicated child-psychiatry clinic in Shin-Yokohama. First-visit intake periodically closes from sheer demand — watching the site for reopening is, itself, the reality of this field.

🕐 月火木 9:15-12:30/13:30-18:00・金 〜19:00・土 〜17:00（水日休）045-478-0556／初診はWeb申込・受付停止期間あり (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 天満橋ひだまりクリニック

Temmabashi Hidamari Clinic — Adult ASD/ADHD with Full Psychometrics (WAIS-IV)

📍 大阪市中央区天満橋京町2-21 天満橋センタービル9F

In-house certified psychologists and full WAIS-IV testing at Temmabashi, with secondary-harm (self-blame, environment mismatch) framing written into its own pages — a workable adult option in Osaka.

🕐 平日 9:30-12:30/14:30-18:30（土日休）06-6232-8686

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 医療法人けいクリニック

Kei Clinic (Joto) — Child Psychiatry Through Adult Developmental Care, One Roof

📍 大阪市城東区鴫野西5-1-24 JR鴫野駅NKビル2F

One clinic following patients from childhood through adolescence into adult developmental care — a neighborhood-scale answer to the age-cutoff problem where futoko-era care usually ends at 18.

🕐 月火木金 9:30-19:30・土 9:30-13:00（水日休）06-6923-8190 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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LGB Mental Clinic Umeda — Child-Adolescent + Developmental Specialty, by Osaka Station

📍 大阪市北区大淀南1-3-11 ランドマーク新梅田シティ

Child-adolescent and developmental specialty clinics under one Umeda roof, test-based diagnosis, walking distance from Osaka Station — location doing real work at the age where attendance decides everything.

🕐 平日 9:30-12:30/14:00-17:00（土日休）06-4798-2000 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: かわぐちクリニック

Kawaguchi Clinic (Minamimorimachi) — Adult Neurodevelopment & Secondary Conditions

📍 大阪市北区紅梅町2-2 カザリーノII 3階

A Minamimorimachi practice whose pages carefully trace the most common path behind hikikomori: traits missed through adolescence, surfacing later as depression and anxiety — and treats exactly that.

🕐 月水金 9:00-13:00/16:00-19:00・火木土 9:00-13:00（日休）06-6882-1533 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 牛島満

Kyoto University Hospital — Center for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Referral-Only)

📍 京都市左京区聖護院川原町54

Kyoto University's team-based center for neurodevelopmental conditions and school-adaptation problems, coordinating with schools and public agencies — Kyoto's referral summit.

🕐 完全紹介制（かかりつけ医療機関からの予約）075-751-3111

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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Photo: E F

Nagaoka Hospital (Nagaokakyo) — Child-Adolescent & Adult Developmental Clinics

📍 京都府長岡京市友岡4-18-1

Southern-Kyoto hospital running both a child-adolescent (ages 3-19) and an adult developmental clinic, with a stated 30-plus-minute first consultation — listed on the Kyoto Autism Society's official provider registry. Day care on site.

🕐 月-土 8:30-17:00（日休）075-951-9201／初診30分以上確保・紹介状＋専用フォーム予約 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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Photo: IbuC

Nagoya University Hospital — Dept. of Parent & Child Psychological Medicine

📍 名古屋市昭和区鶴舞町65

The department's name is the philosophy: Parent & Child Psychological Medicine. Nagoya University's unit treats the family as the clinical unit and anchors a stated network of community clinics.

🕐 紹介予約制（052-741-2111） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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Photo: 大阪一郎

Nagoya City University Hospital — Center for Developmental Psychiatry

📍 名古屋市瑞穂区瑞穂町川澄1

Heir to one of Japan's oldest developmental-pediatrics lineages (since 1965), with stated follow-up experience from age 2 into the 20s — the arc from neurodevelopment through futoko and beyond, seen as one line.

🕐 紹介予約制・受付 平日 8:30-11:00（052-851-5511） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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Photo: 名駅さこうメンタルクリニック

Meieki Sako Mental Clinic — Adult ADHD, Certified Child-Adolescent Training Site

📍 名古屋市西区栄生2-7-5 2階

A certified child-adolescent psychiatry training site and stated tier-A partner of Nagoya University's parent-child department — university-lineage care at street-clinic accessibility, adult ADHD included.

🕐 月火水金 9:00-18:00・木 9:00-13:00・土 9:00-14:00（日休）052-551-7717 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: ちひろ心クリニック メンタルクリニック 心療内科 精神科

Chihiro Kokoro Clinic (Tenjin) — Adult ASD/ADHD, Minimal-Medication Philosophy

📍 福岡市中央区天神2-8-38 4階

CBT, Morita therapy, and psychologist counseling with an explicit minimal-medication stance, open to 7:30 p.m. weekdays and all Saturday — hours a working parent can actually make with their adult child.

🕐 月火水金 9:40-14:00/14:40-19:30・土 9:40-18:00（木日休）092-736-1611／完全予約制

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: 福岡こどもと大人の心療内科 児童精神科 まちこメンタルクリニック

Machiko Mental Clinic (Takamiya) — Child-to-Adult Psychiatry, Web-Only First Booking

📍 福岡市南区高宮3-28-12 幸和ビル

A woman-led child-to-adult psychiatry practice where first visits are booked and pre-screened entirely on the web — for families where the phone call itself is the wall, the system is the door. Slots go fast.

🕐 月火水金土 9:00-12:00/13:00-17:00（木日休）／初診予約はWEBのみ・電話不可・WEB問診必須

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥1,500–3,000 at 30% copay, plus any tests) (est.)

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Photo: ALFRED PHOTO FOUNDATION

Hiramatsu Memorial Hospital — Adult ASD/ADHD Clinic led by Dr. Denda Kenzo (Tue AM intakes)

📍 札幌市中央区南22条西14-1-20

Adult developmental clinic led by Dr. Denda Kenzo, one of Japan's leading child psychiatrists — diagnosis through day-care communication training to social re-entry. Sapporo's marquee adult option.

🕐 初診は毎週火曜午前・電話予約制（011-561-0708）

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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Photo: ALFRED PHOTO FOUNDATION

Goryokai Hospital — Developmental Care from Junior-High Age; City Adolescent-Concierge Partner

📍 札幌市北区篠路9条6-2-3

A counseling-first hospital in Kita Ward plugged into Sapporo's official adolescent-concierge program, with both psychologist and nursing counseling tiers — adolescent entry care wired into the city system.

🕐 平日 8:45-15:30（土日休）011-771-5660／予約制・他院通院中は紹介状 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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Photo: 札幌太田病院（精神科・心療内科）

Sapporo Ohta Hospital (Nishi) — Adult ADHD & Developmental Traits

📍 札幌市西区山の手5条5-1-1

A Nishi-ward psychiatric hospital with adult-ADHD pages and first-visit accounts describing careful separate parent/child psychologist interviews before diagnosis. Day care attached.

🕐 平日 9:30-17:00・土 9:00-12:30（日休）011-644-5111 (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

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National Center for Child Health & Development — Kokoro Clinic (Okura, Setagaya)

📍 東京都世田谷区大蔵2-10-1

The national children's-health center: in 2023 it merged its infant and adolescent mental-health clinics into one Kokoro department — national-center-grade child psychiatry, and southwestern Tokyo's doorway to it.

🕐 予約センター 03-5494-7300（月-金 9:00-17:00）／2023年10月に乳幼児・思春期の各メンタルヘルス外来を統合

💴 Insurance-covered medical care (referral letter required; appointment only)

Kanagawa Children's Medical Center — Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Minami, Yokohama)

📍 横浜市南区六ツ川2-138-4

The prefectural children's hospital's adolescent psychiatry unit — a public route especially suited to cases where body and mind interlock (eating issues, orthostatic dysregulation and their neighbors).

🕐 相談受付 平日 9:30-16:00（045-711-2351 代表） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

Osaka City General Medical Center — Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Miyakojima, Referral-Only)

📍 大阪市都島区都島本通2-13-22

The city's flagship child-psychiatry department (under 18): ASD, ADHD, eating disorders, mood and anxiety conditions, with school coordination and inpatient care through high-school age.

🕐 完全予約制・初診は紹介状必要（初診受付 8:45-11:00・事前電話確認推奨）

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

Osaka Psychiatric Medical Center — Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Hirakata, Prefectural)

📍 大阪府枚方市宮之阪3-16-21

The prefectural psychiatric center, with a dedicated child-adolescent clinic and an under-18 ward whose own scope names school refusal, social withdrawal, developmental conditions, and abuse — parent support included in the care design.

🕐 初診・再診とも予約制（再診 8:45-17:00） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered medical care (child/adolescent outpatient clinic; check costs with the hospital)

Sapporo Medical University Hospital — Child & Adolescent Mind and Development Clinic

📍 札幌市中央区南1条西16丁目

Sapporo Medical University's specialty clinic focused on childhood psychiatric and developmental conditions — the university-hospital seat for families who want one thorough academic evaluation.

🕐 初診は電話予約：月-金 14:00-15:30（011-611-2111） (Check official site for current hours)

💴 Insurance-covered (first visit roughly ¥2,500–5,000 at 30% copay; big hospitals add a surcharge without a referral) (est.)

Prefectural Mental Health & Welfare Centers — The Route Into Medical Care

Pattern card: the public institution sitting BETWEEN consultation windows and clinics. Every prefecture and designated city has one, staffed with physicians and psychiatric social workers; they take family consultations about hikikomori and route to the appropriate medical institution. The official answer to 'which hospital do we even go to?' Find yours via the MHLW window finder.

🕐 自治体ごとに異なる（電話相談から）

💴 Free (directory)

Tokyo's Official Developmental-Disorder Clinic List (Adult/Child Split)

Pattern card: Tokyo's official registry of developmental-disorder providers, split adult vs. child. The Tokyo clinics pinned on our map are the verified few from this much larger official sea.

🕐 随時閲覧可

💴 Free (directory)

Kanagawa Mental Health Center's Gaming-Disorder Guide Page

Pattern card: the prefecture's one-page official guide — ICD-11 criteria, the GAMES self-test, and the route to Kurihama. Where a parent first answers 'is this actually a disorder?'

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Kyoto Autism Society's Provider List — Compiled by the Families Themselves

Pattern card: a provider list compiled by the families' own association — carrying the weight of places families have actually used, unlike bureaucratic registries. In Kyoto, pull this alongside the official portal (pp-31).

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Kurihama's National Registry of Gaming/Internet-Dependence Treatment Facilities

Pattern card: the national addiction center's registry of treatment facilities nationwide, maintained via the mental-health-center network. For gaming problems, this is the canon for 'a hospital near us.'

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MHLW's Iryo-Joho Net — the Official National Search for Child Psychiatry & Psychiatry

Pattern card: the health ministry's official database, the only national source filterable down to 'child psychiatry' by municipality — the search engine for every family outside our eight mapped cities.

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The National Developmental-Disorder Specialty-Care Network Portal

Pattern card: the national-program network of institutions running structured adult ASD/ADHD programs (Karasuyama-model day care and beyond) — where families learn what exists past the diagnosis.

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