Abstract
Reducing the number of children waiting for child care centers and improving child care support by expanding child care centers and so on is an urgent issue in large cities of Japan. The accessibility to child care centers has been studied by researchers for narrowing supply-demand gap and getting rid of spatial mismatch so far. However, there are still some problems to be improved. This study proposed new accessibility measure to child care centers to which matching theory is applied and assessed accessibility to child care centers in Midori ward, Nagoya city. As the result, it was confirmed that the proposed accessibility measure can express realistic selection process to child care centers and analyze children waiting for child care centers as well as accessibility to it.
