Takaki Shika

Takaki Shika is a neighborhood dental clinic tucked inside a residential building in Ishikamii-cho, Nerima — the kind of quiet, local practice that long-term residents tend to stumble onto and stick with. It’s not a flashy city-center clinic with a bilingual coordinator at the front desk. Their website has some English content, which suggests awareness that foreign patients exist, but whether that translates to a smooth English-language appointment is genuinely unclear. If your Japanese is basic or nonexistent, go in prepared — have your symptoms written out, bring a translation app, and don’t expect forms in English. That said, Nerima has a solid expat community and local clinics here often have more patience with non-Japanese speakers than the reviews suggest. Standard dental services: cleanings, fillings, checkups. Good option if you live in the area and want somewhere walkable rather than trekking to central Tokyo for routine dental work.