Serizawa Shikaiin

Serizawa Shikaiin is a neighborhood dental clinic in Ōhara, Setagaya — a quiet residential pocket of southwest Tokyo. It’s a standard Japanese private dental practice: one main dentist, a small team, the kind of place locals have been going to for years rather than a flashy multi-chair operation.

The website has some English content, which suggests they’ve thought about international patients at least a little. But “some English online” doesn’t automatically mean the staff are conversational in English. Walk-in consultations in fluent English are probably not the default here. If your Japanese is zero, bring a translation app or a Japanese-speaking friend for your first visit, especially for anything beyond a basic cleaning.

For expats in Setagaya — a ward with a solid international population — this clinic is geographically convenient. It’s practical for routine dental work: cleanings, checkups, fillings. If you need complex treatment or strong English support, you may want to call ahead or look at more internationally-oriented clinics in Shibuya or Shinjuku first.