Consultation
This is a list of places where foreign nationals living in Fukuoka Prefecture can go to for consultation. Please feel free to contact them if you have any inquires.
Fukuoka Multilingual Assistance and Information Center
We provide consultation services in 22 languages for various problems in daily life such as employment, labor, housing, and children's education, as well as residence and legal consultations. Consultations are available at the reception desk, by phone, or by e-mail.
- Location
- ACROS Fukuoka 3rd floor, 1-1-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka Fukuoka International Exchange Foundation Kokusai Hiroba entrance
- Available hours
- 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., including Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays (except December 29 to January 3)
- Supported
languages - 22 languages including Japanese (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Indonesian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Thai, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Malay, Burmese, Khmer, Mongolian,Sinhala, Hindi, Bengali)
- Service
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- Consultation accepted at the reception desk, phone, or email
Toll-free number 0120-279-906
Email fukuoka-maic@kokusaihiroba.or.jp - Consultation support in 22 languages for foreign nationals needing assistance by utilizing four-way call and interpretation services
- Guidance to specialized organizations according to the content of the consultation, and interpreter support via telephone to the organization
- Offering visiting consultation services in each municipality in the prefecture (Reservation needed)
- Consultation accepted at the reception desk, phone, or email
Dispatch consultations schedule here
Various consultation services with specialists (cooperation with specialized organizations)
We work together with regional legal affairs bureaus, lawyers and gyosei-shoshi (administrative scriveners) to provide free legal consultations.
Free legal consultation for foreigners Reservations required *First 4 applicants only
- Consultation day
- Third Sunday of every month
- Time
- 13:00-17:00 (Reservation required: 0120-279-906)
- Location
- Kokusai Hiroba Exchange Room (3F ACROS Fukuoka 1-1-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka)
- Language
- 22 languages including Japanese (if interpretation is required, a telephone interpretation service is available)
- Contact
- Fukuoka Multilingual Information and Support Center 0120-279-906
- Consultant
- Lawyer
- Content
- Legal matters such as workplace problems, car accidents, housing, marriage, divorce, etc.
- How to use the service
- First, please call 0120-279-906 or visit our office to check the availability of an appointment.
Click here for details on how to apply.
Click here for precautions and application form
●Disclaimer (Free Legal Counseling for Foreign Nationals)
●Legal Consultation Application Form PDF
●Legal Consultation Application Form Excel 
Consultation on immigration and residency procedures
- Consultation days
- 1st Monday of every month, 4th Saturday of every month
- Time
- (1st Monday) 16:30-18:30 *Reception desk closes at 18:00 (No appointment necessary)
(4th Saturday) 13:00 - 16:00 *Reception desk closes at 15:30 (No appointment necessary)
- Place
- Kokusai Hiroba Exchange Room (ACROS Fukuoka 3rd floor)
- Language
- Japanese and 21 other languages are available by interpretation over the phone.
※English and Chinese in person interpretation available on the 4th Saturday.
- Contact
- Fukuoka Gyoseishoshi Lawyers Association (092-641-2501)
- Consultant
- Administrative scrivener with detailed knowledge of immigration affairs
- Consultation
about nationality - entry to Japan, status of residence, bringing family to Japan, etc.