DOLPHIN DENTAL CLINIC

Dolphin Dental Clinic (いるか歯科医院) sits in Bunkyo’s Sekiguchi neighborhood — a quieter residential pocket of Tokyo that’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. The clinic handles general dentistry: cleanings, fillings, extractions, the usual. The website has some English-language content, which suggests they’re at least aware that non-Japanese patients exist, but don’t show up expecting fluent English at the front desk. This is a neighborhood practice, not an expat-specialist clinic. That said, Bunkyo has a decent international population, so they’ve likely dealt with the occasional non-Japanese patient before. Bring a translation app, have your symptoms written out in Japanese if you can manage it, and you’ll probably be fine for routine work. For complex treatment discussions or anything requiring nuanced explanation, you may want backup — a bilingual friend or a translation service. The name means “dolphin” in Japanese, which is charming and tells you this is a local, approachable practice rather than a sterile corporate chain.