1. Outline of Tokyo Metropolitan Sports Centers for the Disabled
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(1) Purposes of establishment

  • * To provide facilities for sports, accommodations, and meetings for persons with disabilities with the aim of promoting the health and social participation of this segment of the population.
  • * To promote the welfare of persons with disabilities by offering useful information and workshops.

(2) Applicable ordinances

  • * Article 5 of the Law for the Welfare of Physically Disabled Persons (Support facilities for the social participation of the disabled)
  • * Article 31-2 of the Law for the Welfare of Physically Disabled Persons (Welfare centers for the physically disabled)
    Standards for support facilities for the social participation of persons with physical disabilities and standards for facility management

(Type A welfare centers for the disabled)

  • * Ordinance for Tokyo Metropolitan Sports Centers for the Disabled
  • * Enforcement Regulations for the Ordinance for Tokyo Metropolitan Sports Centers for the Disabled

(3) Establishment/ management agencies

  • a) Establishment agency: Tokyo Metropolitan Government
  • b) Management agency: Tokyo Sports Association for the Disabled

(4) Date of establishment

  • * Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Sports Center for the Disabled: May 24, 1984
    (Facilities for accommodations: April 29, 1993)
  • * Tokyo Metropolitan Sports Center for the Disabled: May 10, 1986

(5) Addresses/ sizes/ description of the structures of the Centers

  • * Tokyo Metropolitan Sports Center for the Disabled
    • a) Address: 1-2-2 Jujodai, Kita-ku, Tokyo
    • b) Site area: 21,656.87 m2
    • c) Structure: Two-story steel-reinforced concrete construction (Part of the structure is three stories above ground; part of the structure is one floor below ground)
      Building area: 6,036.32 m2 (including the facility for accommodations: 484.09 m2)
  • * Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Sports Center for the Disabled
    • a) Address: 2-1-1 Fujimidai, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo
    • b) Site area: 9,102.15 m2
      • c) Structure:
      • *Main Building
        Two-story reinforced concrete construction
        Building area: 4,996.59 m2 (including space for the Tama Branch of Welfare Center for the Physically / Mentally Disabled)
      • *Facility for accommodations
        Three-story reinforced concrete construction (Two stories above ground and one floor below ground)
        Building area: 1,392.66m2

(6) Details of activities

- Activities

  • a) Provision of facilities for sports, accommodations, and meetings
  • b) Provision of information / counseling for the welfare of persons with disabilities
  • c) Instruction on sports / recreational activities for persons with disabilities
  • d) Implementation of sporting events / recreational activities
  • e) Implementation of training / workshops for the welfare of persons with disabilities
  • f) Fostering of sports clubs for persons with disabilities
  • g) Research into and development of sports for persons with disabilities

- Eligible users

  • a) People in possession of a certificate of physical, intellectual, or mental disability
  • b) People with disabilities at the level of disability certificate holders
  • c) Personal assistants for persons with disabilities
  • d) Groups dedicated to the promotion of welfare for persons with disabilities
  • e) People judged by the Governor to be qualified to use the Centers

- Available times

  • a) Gymnasium, Ping-Pong Room, and Training Room: 9:00AM - 8:30PM
  • b) Meeting Room, Printing Room, Library, and Recording Room: 9:00AM - 9:00PM
  • c) Swimming pool: 10:00AM - 8:30PM
  • d) Playground, Archery Range, Tennis Courts, and Sports Ground:
  • i) Spring & summer (April-August): 9:00AM - 6:30PM
  • ii) Fall & winter (September-March): 9:00AM - 5:00PM

<Note> Sports facilities are unavailable between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM, except by reservation.

- Days the Centers are closed

  • a) Wednesdays (If the Wednesday falls on a National Holiday, however, the Centers will remain open on that Wednesday and will be closed the next day, Thursday.)
  • b) The day after a National Holiday (If the day after a National Holiday is either Saturday or Sunday, the Centers will be open.)
  • c) New Year's Holiday Season (December 29 - January 3)

<Note> The specific days that the Centers will be closed are fixed at the beginning of each fiscal year in accordance with the general guidelines listed above.

- Usage fee

  • a) Accommodations (Check-in: 3:00PM; check-out: 10:00AM)
    • - For individual with disability and his/her personal assistant (only one personal assistant is allowed): 1,500 yen per person per night
    • - Except above case: 2,000 yen per person per night
  • b) With the exception of accommodations, use of the Centers is free of charge.

- Entry procedure

  • a) Personal use
    To use the Centers on an individual basis, apply for a user's certificate at the time of your first visit to the Center and present it at the reception desk on each visit thereafter.
  • b) Reservations and Group use
    Reservations for Center use can be made up to 3 months in advance, with the exception of events organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government or the Center.
  • c) Use of accommodations
    Reservations can be made up to 3 months in advance by phone or in person.

- Shuttle bus with wheelchair lift

  • a) A shuttle bus with wheelchair lift is operated free of charge.
  • b) To the Tokyo Metropolitan Sports Center for the Disabled (From Ikebukuro Station and Oji Station)
  • c) To the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Sports Center for the Disabled (From JR Chuo Line Kunitachi Station and JR Nanbu Line Yaho Station)

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