Shioya Shika

Shioya Shika is a neighborhood dental clinic in Nishigaoka, Kita Ward — a quiet residential corner of north Tokyo that most expats don’t end up in by accident. If you’re here, you probably live nearby. The clinic covers standard dental work: cleanings, fillings, extractions, the usual. Their website has some English content, which suggests awareness that non-Japanese patients exist, but don’t bank on a fully bilingual experience at the front desk. This isn’t a foreigner-facing clinic with English-speaking staff on call. That said, for routine dental care, a lot can be communicated through pointing, phone translation, and a dentist who’s seen it all before. Go in knowing your dental vocabulary in Japanese if you can, or bring a translation app. It’s a local clinic doing local dentistry — solid and unpretentious, but you’ll need to meet them halfway on the language front.