NISHIHARA Dental Clinic

NISHIHARA Dental Clinic sits on the second floor of a building in Kaigan, Minato-ku — not the flashiest location, but it’s a legitimate neighborhood dental practice that’s been serving the area for years. For English-speaking expats in the Minato area (a ward with a high concentration of foreign residents and embassy workers), the fact that they have conversational English capability is genuinely useful. This is a general dentistry practice covering the usual bases: cleanings, fillings, checkups. Don’t expect a bilingual concierge experience, but you shouldn’t need a translation app to get through an appointment either. Staff can handle basic communication in English, which takes the edge off that particular anxiety of sitting in a dentist’s chair while trying to explain where it hurts in a second language. Close enough to the waterfront that you could walk off the post-appointment adrenaline along the bay.