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Major Businesses Requiring Licenses
(Under the jurisdiction of Health Centers and Police Departments)

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Main Business Bureau in charge (Japanese only) Remarks (Japanese only)
○Approval for restaurant and café businesses
○Food manufacturing and sales (The manner of approval and reporting differs depending on the type of product. Please contact the related offices)
○Notification for meal providers
○Approval for inn-keeping businesses (hotels, Japanese-style inns, simple accommodations, boarding houses)
○Approval for public baths
○Approval for entertainment facilities
○Notification and affirmation for cleaning facilities (Including distributing agents)
○Notification of hairdressing saloons and beauty shops
○Approval for swimming pools
●Registration or approval for animal businesses
★Approval for the establishment of pharmacies
★Approval for pharmaceutical sales businesses
★Sales and rental businesses of medical equipments
★Sales of poisons and toxic substances
○Registration of clinical laboratories
○Approval for the establishment of hospitals
○Approval or notification for the establishment of medical clinics
○Notification for coin-operated laundries 		○:Health centers of Tokyo (23 wards of Tokyo, Tama district)
●:Animal Welfare Consultation Centers
★:Pharmaceutical Sanitation Office for the 23 wards, Health center for the Tama district		 ○For new entrants to the food business
○Food hygiene window (Total guidance site for food safety)
○Hygiene business and animal welfare
★ Tokyo Metropolitan Pharmaceutical Affairs Index (Total Information Site)


Main Business Bureau in charge (Japanese only) Remarks (Japanese only)
○Adult entertainment businesses (Cabarets, restaurants, socializing restaurants, dance & eat restaurants, dance halls, low illumination restaurants, block seat restaurants, mah-jongg saloons, pachinko parlors and other amusement places, game arcades, etc.), sex-related special businesses, late night liquor serving bar businesses
●Antique businesses
●Pawnbrokers
●Security businesses
☆ Businesses using public roads (Promotion cars, distribution of leaflets, route sales)
★Driving schools
■Notification for businesses using a greater number of cars than determined by the Cabinet Office’s decree
■Replacement driver services

 ○: Security, Community Safety Department, Police Station
●: Crime Prevention, Community Safety Department, Police Station
☆:Police station
★:Driving School Department, Driving License Administration, Metropolitan Police Department
■: Traffic Management Department, Traffic Department, Police Station		 About the various applications to the police
(there are various application documents)