With or without education services of English or Montessori, the Japanese government and many municipalities provide subsidies to protectors for the childcare charges of unauthorized nursery schools. To examine the adequacy of the subsidies, this paper looks into the factors that influence variations in the childcare charges. Geographically weighted regression shows that childcare charges are positively influenced by the dummy variables based on whether each nursery school offer English teaching or Montessori education as well as by the number of passengers at the nearest railway station in a wide area of Tokyo.
