Tokyo Tama Inochi no Denwa: phone number and hours

Tokyo Tama Inochi no Denwa is a telephone counseling service that opened in June 1985 as one of Japan's Inochi no Denwa centers. Trained and certified citizen volunteers take your call free of charge and without asking your name. Calls are taken daily 10:00–21:00, and from the 3rd Friday of every month through Sunday night the line stays open continuously.

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

  0120-783-556

  Daily 16:00–21:00; on the 10th of every month continuously from 8:00 to 8:00 on the 11th

• Navi Dial

  0570-783-556

  10:00–22:00. Not available from IP phones; call from a landline or mobile phone

• Online counseling

  Counseling by email

• List of Inochi no Denwa centers nationwide

  If you cannot get through, you can call the counseling lines of the other centers of the Federation of Inochi no Denwa

• You do not have to give your name, and your conversation is kept strictly confidential.
• Counseling is free (call charges apply except on the toll-free number).
• Calls are answered by citizen volunteer counselors who have completed the required training and been certified.
• Counselors listen with respect for each caller's religion and beliefs.
• A member of the Federation of Inochi no Denwa since 1986, it also takes part in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's subsidized programs "Suicide Prevention Inochi no Denwa" and the "daily toll-free line".

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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