TANAKA DENTAL CLINIC

Tanaka Dental Clinic sits in the residential Minami-Oizumi area of Nerima — not a central Tokyo neighborhood, but a real community where locals actually live. This is a small, independent Japanese dental practice doing general dentistry: checkups, cleanings, fillings, the everyday stuff. The clinic has some English-language content on its website, which is a decent signal that they’ve thought about non-Japanese patients. That said, full English service isn’t confirmed — don’t expect fluent chairside explanations or English intake forms as a given. If your Japanese is minimal, bring a translation app and write down your symptoms beforehand. The dentist appears to run a solo or small-team practice, which typically means more continuity — you see the same person each visit rather than rotating through staff. For expats settled in Nerima or the western residential stretches of Tokyo, this is a convenient local option worth a phone call to gauge the language situation before booking.