Japan Care Facilities (MHLW Open Data, CC BY)

Japan's long-term care providers — nursing homes, home care, day care, group homes and 31 more service types — as English-schema JSON with contact details.

This Actor delivers the official open data of the 介護サービス情報公表システム (Long-Term Care Information Publication System), published by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Creative Commons CC BY: provider name, service type, address, coordinates, published phone/fax, corporate number and corporate name, capacity, available days, and a direct link to each facility's page on the official kaigokensaku search site.

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by MHLW or the Government of Japan. Attribution: 本データは介護サービス情報公表システムから抽出したデータです。This CC BY attribution is embedded in the license string of every output record, so datasets you build downstream carry it automatically.

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Who is this for?

• Elder-care market entry & B2B sales — suppliers of care equipment, food services, staffing, and software building target lists of Japan's care providers, one of the world's largest and fastest-aging care markets. Published switchboard numbers and corporate identifiers make this directly usable as a lead list.
• Investors & analysts — mapping capacity and operator concentration by region and service type, with corporate numbers for entity matching against other registries.
• Data & AI teams — a clean provider master keyed by the official 10-character provider ID, with stable service-type codes.

What you get

• 35 official service types, selectable by 3-digit code, exact Japanese name, or "all" — from special nursing homes (介護老人福祉施設) to home care, day care, group homes, and care medical facilities.
• Corporate linkage: corporateNumber (the national 13-digit legal-entity number) and corporateName on each record — join care facilities to their operating companies.
• Verified detail links: detailUrl resolves to the facility's page on the official kaigokensaku.mhlw.go.jp site (URL pattern verified against the live site).
• Honest handling: not-geocoded 0 coordinates become null; capacity 0 ("not applicable/no limit" upstream usage) and blank are kept distinct.

Sample output (dataset item)

{
  "facilityId": "0170100000",
  "name": "特別養護老人ホーム ○○園",
  "nameKana": "トクベツヨウゴロウジンホーム マルマルエン",
  "serviceType": { "code": "510", "ja": "介護老人福祉施設", "en": "Special nursing home for the elderly" },
  "prefecture": { "code": "01", "nameJa": "北海道", "nameEn": "Hokkaido" },
  "city": "札幌市東区",
  "address": "北海道札幌市東区○○条○丁目1-1",
  "latitude": 43.0894,
  "longitude": 141.3849,
  "phone": "011-000-0000",
  "corporateNumber": "1234567890123",
  "corporateName": "社会福祉法人○○会",
  "capacity": 80,
  "availableDays": ["月", "火", "水", "木", "金", "土", "日"],
  "detailUrl": "https://www.kaigokensaku.mhlw.go.jp/01/index.php?action_kouhyou_detail_022_kani=true&JigyosyoCd=0170100000-00&ServiceCd=510",
  "snapshotMonth": "2026-06",
  "source": "介護サービス情報公表システム（厚生労働省）",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/kaigo-kouhyou_opendata.html",
  "license": "CC BY — 本データは介護サービス情報公表システムから抽出したデータです",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-08-25T09:12:44Z"
}

Input example

{
  "serviceTypes": ["510", "550"],
  "prefecture": "福井県",
  "maxItems": 500
}

serviceTypes accepts 3-digit codes, exact Japanese service names, or "all" (35 types). prefecture accepts JIS codes, Japanese, or English names.

Pricing

Pay per result — see the pricing tab. A prefecture-level pull of one service type is typically tens to hundreds of records.

FAQ

Where does the data come from, and can I reuse it? From the official open-data CSVs of the 介護サービス情報公表システム, published by MHLW under Creative Commons CC BY with the condition that reuse states the data was extracted from the publication system. This Actor embeds that exact statement in every record's license field — your downstream datasets stay compliant by default. (Check the CC BY terms yourself before large-scale republication; this is not legal advice.)

Is this an official government service? No. This is an unofficial tool, built and maintained independently, using officially published open data.

How fresh is the data? MHLW publishes snapshots twice a year (end of June / end of December). The Actor always picks the newest one and stamps snapshotMonth on every record. That's the source's real cadence — we won't pretend it's live data.

Are the phone numbers personal data? No — phone/fax are each facility's published switchboard, corporate contact information from the official open data. The published CSVs contain no person-name columns (verified on the current snapshot), and the Actor enforces this structurally: whitelist extraction, pattern-based exclusion of any future name/director/representative columns, and an automated legal test asserting that phone-shaped strings appear only in the phone/fax fields and no e-mail or personal-name-shaped strings appear anywhere.

How big can a run get? "all" service types nationwide means 36 polite upstream requests (~100 MB transferred) and a few minutes of runtime — the Actor keeps ≥1.2 s between requests, backs off on 429/5xx, and never evades rate limits. Prefecture- or type-scoped runs are much lighter.

Search terms this Actor answers

Japan nursing home database · Japan long-term care facilities · elderly care providers Japan · kaigo data English · Japan care homes list · Japan aging market data · 介護事業所 open data · Japan senior care leads

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Data source: 介護サービス情報公表システム（厚生労働省）— https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/kaigo-kouhyou_opendata.html . License: CC BY with the extraction statement above, embedded in every record.