Office for Sports Promotion

November 2025, 7

Overview

Business overview

Exercise and sports are recognized to have various benefits for people with disabilities, such as improving their health, having fun, interacting with peers, and participating in society. Therefore, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has started a project in fiscal year 2023 to send instructors to welfare facilities and other facilities to regularly implement exercise programs for people with disabilities, with the aim of helping them develop exercise habits. This project aims to enable people to enjoy exercise and sports on a daily basis in their communities by stepping up from exercise at welfare facilities, which are a place for people to hang out during the day, to exercise at local gymnasiums.

Sponsorship

Tokyo

Message

• Exercise instructors are dispatched to welfare facilities to conduct regular exercise programs (approximately once a month/total of eight sessions).
• Once residents become accustomed to exercising within the welfare facility, they will begin exercising at local sports facilities.
• Facility staff will also participate in the exercise program, providing an opportunity for them to learn exercise instruction know-how through practice.
• We plan to have volunteers, mainly sports promotion committee members and others who are involved in sports activities in the local area, help support the exercise program.

Implementation period and number of times

The implementation period and number of times the exercise program will be implemented are as follows.

• Implementation period: July 2025 to February 2026
• Number of times: 8

Regarding recruitment of target facilities

Admission Information

We are looking for welfare facilities for people with disabilities that understand the purpose of this project and wish to implement regular exercise programs. For details on the recruitment, please see the application guidelines for the "2025 Support Project for Establishing Exercise Habits for Children and Adults with Disabilities."
FY2025 Support Program for Establishing Exercise Habits for Children and Adults with Disabilities Application Guidelines
Notice of recruitment of exercise program implementation facilities (flyer)

(Applications for FY2025 have closed.)

Target

Facilities that wish to conduct regular exercise among the following disability welfare service establishments located in Tokyo

• Life care
• Independence training (lifestyle training, functional training)
• Work transition support
• Continuing employment support (Type B)
• After school day service
• Child development support

Facilities subject to the Reiwa 7 program

The target facilities for fiscal year 2025 have been selected as follows, and the exercise program will be implemented.

Facilities covered in FY2025

Past initiatives

Publication of the FY2024 Handbook (for wards, cities, towns and villages)

To serve as a reference for local government officials when planning and considering home visit projects aimed at promoting parasports, we have created a handbook that summarizes project schemes, examples and effects, as well as key points for stepping up to help people with disabilities establish exercise habits. We hope that this handbook will be of help to local government officials in their efforts to promote parasports.

A handbook for helping people with disabilities establish exercise habits

Publication of the FY2023 Collection of Initiative Cases (for Welfare Facilities)

We have created a collection of case studies that introduces the effects of exercise on people with disabilities and how to implement it, based on efforts at 12 facilities where we conducted projects in XNUMX. We hope that you will find this useful as a reference for activities at welfare facilities, etc.

A collection of examples of initiatives aimed at establishing exercise habits among people with disabilities