Usage patterns 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 に 子こ 供ども を 預あず ける to leave one's child at a place (e.g. daycare)
I left my child at the daycare center during the meeting.
〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 を 利り 用よう する to make use of a facility
You can use the on-site daycare at this event.
〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 付つ き equipped with a facility (e.g. daycare included)
This workplace comes with an on-site daycare center.
Kanji 託 consign, requesting, entrusting with 児 newborn babe, child, young of animals Related words 保育園 usually refers to an ongoing nursery school for preschool children, while 託児所 often means a temporary or on-site childcare facility, such as at a workplace or event.
保育所 is the formal, legally defined term for a licensed daycare facility, whereas 託児所 is a more general, everyday word that can include unlicensed or temporary childcare services.
幼稚園 is a kindergarten focused on early education for young children, while 託児所 is mainly about supervising children rather than teaching them.
託児所 emphasizes temporary child-minding services, whereas ナーサリー is a general loanword for a nursery without that temporary nuance.
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound: 託児 means entrusting a child to someone’s care, and 所 means a place, giving the sense of a place where children are looked after.
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