A socket that no longer holds the plug, a switch that has stopped working, a ceiling light to replace, a breaker that keeps tripping, an air conditioner to install. Small jobs, done quickly and legally, by a licensed electrician who explains the work in English or French — and deals with your 管理会社 in Japanese.
Most of these take under an hour. Send a photo and you will get a price before anyone comes out.
Replacing a loose, burnt or cracked socket, adding an outlet, converting to an earthed or USB type.
Replacing a switch that no longer clicks or sparks, fitting a dimmer, a two-way switch or a motion sensor.
Removing and fitting ceiling lights, installing a ceiling rose, converting old fittings to LED.
Finding the actual cause rather than resetting it: overloaded circuit, faulty appliance, earth leakage, ageing board.
A separate circuit for an air conditioner, an IH hob, a washer or a dryer, so it stops sharing with everything else.
Earthed outlets for washing machine, dishwasher or microwave, and safety checks in kitchens and bathrooms.
Replacing a dead intercom handset or doorbell, fitting a unit with a camera and a screen.
Washing machine, dishwasher, IH hob or dryer — connected properly, with the dedicated circuit and earthed outlet they require.
Installation, removal, relocation and cleaning of residential air-conditioning units.
In Japan, work on fixed wiring — sockets, switches, ceiling roses, distribution boards — is reserved by law to a licensed electrician (電気工事士法). It is not a formality: it is what makes the work legal, insurable, and acceptable to a landlord or building management company.
Doing it yourself, or letting an unlicensed handyman do it, exposes you to three concrete risks:
I hold the Japanese Class-2 electrician licence (第二種電気工事士), which covers residential installations up to 600V. The work is done to standard and you get a written invoice you can show to whoever asks.
Describe the problem and attach a photo of the socket, switch or board. That is usually enough to identify the job.
You receive a price and a time slot before anything is booked. No call-out that turns into an open-ended bill.
The work is carried out and you get a written invoice — useful for a landlord, an insurer or an employer.
Getting a small repair done in Japan is rarely a technical problem. It is a phone call in Japanese to a company that only works in Japanese, about a flat you do not own, in a building with its own rules.
Based in Tokyo, working across the 23 wards. Most jobs are booked for the next day or two; a socket that sparks or a flat with no power is treated as urgent.
Also Yokohama, Kawasaki, Chiba and Saitama. Further out, ask anyway — for a half-day of work it is often still worth the trip, and I will tell you honestly if it is not.
Yes. I work in Japanese, English and French every day. You will get the explanation before the work, the price before the visit, and the invoice afterwards — in your language, not in translated fragments.
It depends on the job, but you will never find out on the day. Send a photo of the socket, the switch or the distribution board with a line about the problem, and you get a price before anyone travels. The estimate costs nothing.
Normal hours are 8:00–19:00. Weekends are possible by arrangement. If there is a burning smell, a socket that sparks or a flat with no power, say so in the first line and it is treated as urgent.
Yes. Two things to check first: whether the room has a dedicated circuit (専用回路) at the right voltage, and whether there is already a sleeve through the wall. If either is missing it becomes electrical work, which needs a licence — and you will know the cost before, not on the day.
Not always. Japanese homes are supplied under a contracted amperage (契約アンペア), often 30 A in an older flat, and a microwave plus a kettle plus a hairdryer will exceed it — that is a contract question for the power company, not a repair. But a breaker that trips with almost nothing running is a fault, and should be looked at.
For anything that drills, fixes to the façade or changes the fixed installation, yes — from the owner or the 管理会社. I can ask them in Japanese and get it in writing, which is far easier than explaining it at move-out when 原状回復 is being calculated.
Yes, describing the work and naming the licence holder who did it. That is exactly the document an insurer, a landlord or an employer will ask you for later, and it costs nothing to issue.
For flat-pack furniture or a leaking tap, a handyman is fine. But anything connected to the wiring in the walls — sockets, switches, the distribution board, an air conditioner — is reserved by the Electricians Act to licence holders. Unlicensed work is what an insurer looks for after a fire.
A photo of what is wrong, the address and floor, whether it is a mansion or a house, and if you know it, your contracted amperage — it is written on the main breaker. That is usually enough to arrive with the right parts.
Bank transfer or cash, after the work, against the invoice. No deposit for a normal job.
Site inspection, installation, maintenance or technical representation — describe your need and you will get a reply within one business day.
The form does not take attachments — send photos to contact@daksolutions.jp, mentioning your name.
No job is too small. Send a photo and you will get a price the same day.
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