Ibaraki Inochi no Denwa: phone number and hours

Ibaraki Inochi no Denwa opened in Tsukuba City in June 1985 and talks by phone with people seeking help or encouragement. You can talk without giving your name, and your conversation is confidential. Besides phone calls, it also offers counseling via LINE on Sundays and certain other days.

• LINE counseling (SNS counseling)

  1st to 4th Sundays 16:00–19:50 (sign-up until 19:00; closed on a 5th Sunday), and the 2nd Tuesday 12:00–15:50 (sign-up until 15:00). Sessions are about 50 minutes, up to once a day. Add the counseling account as a friend via the link on the page to start. Read the terms of use before using it.

• Suicide Prevention Inochi no Denwa (toll-free number)

  0120-783-556

  On the 10th of every month, free for 24 hours from 8:00 to 8:00 the next day. Currently also free daily from 16:00 to 21:00.

• You can talk without giving your name, and your conversation is confidential.
• It takes calls about all kinds of worries, including life, family, marriage, health and relationships.
• Calls are recorded for suicide prevention and to improve the quality of counseling, but the service states that it keeps confidentiality and does not use recordings for any other purpose.
• All counselors are volunteers who have completed the required training and been certified before starting.
• It states that it cannot accept calls that abuse counselors, calls made for sexual purposes, or prank and harassing calls.

Your municipality (city, ward, town or village) also has counters for welfare, health and child-rearing concerns. Call the main number, explain what you want to discuss, and ask for the counter in charge.

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