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The questionnaire survey was done to the kindergarten and the nursery school in the Japanese whole country, and the realities were clarified. It has been understood that the kindergartens are larger than the nursery school in the size of facilities and the number of people. Oppositely, the nursery school of the capacity fulfillment rate is higher. There is no difference in the size of the child care room for the same age children in both facilities. On the other hand, staff's dissatisfaction with shared space such as gardens and playrooms and 1.2-years old children’s care room size was shown.

This paper aims to report on the actual management states of the integrated facilities within functions of nursery school and nursery in various cases. Then, we tried to arrange merits and issues on management of these facilities, and gain foundational knowledge to plan these facilities. For this purpose, firstly we conducted hearings with many local governments and flagship, facilities, and observational survey at those facilities. Secondly, we grasped and arranged following points in each local governments and flagship facilities,: 1) the actual management states, 2) the process and backbround of introducing the integrating, 3) the detail consideration to whole concept of these integrated facilities, 4) merits and issues on managemeting the integrating.