Supreme Court of Japan

Family Court Telephone/Fax Information Service

The following Family Courts (* Please see "List of Family Courts with Service".) have begun the Family Court Telephone/Fax Information Service, a public information service via telephone and facsimile on family-related subjects that Family Courts handle.

The Information Service provides brief information concerning domestic relations cases and related matters: general information on family matters that Family Court can handle; Determination and Conciliation procedure; Information on Advising service for filing; locations and office hours.

Anyone can call the number of this service listed below and get the above information at any time (available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day) by telephone and facsimile. Using an application form and its fill-in example offered by facsimile, one can complete an application form and file it without going to court house by mailing the completed application form with required revenue stamps and postage stamps as well as other necessary documents.

According to the guiding message the Service callers will be able to select relevant information from a menu of subjects by choosing corresponding numbers. The information on subjects chosen will be offered by telephone or by facsimile. A code number is given to each subject. So one can obtain the information by directly choosing the code number, if one knows the code number in advance.

For this service, no additional fee is needed other than calling fee.

[List of Family Courts with Service]

• Akita Family Court 018(824)3366 , Aomori Family Court 017(722)5660
• Chiba Family Court 043(224)9261 , Fukuoka Family Court 092(762)5283
• Fukushima Family Court 024(535)5445 , Gifu Family Court 058(262)6250
• Hiroshima Family Court 082(228)1511 , Kagoshima Family Court 099(222)9680
• Kanazawa Family Court 076(262)9922 , Kobe Family Court 078(521)5291
• Kumamoto Family Court 096(355)6511 , Kushiro Family Court 0154(41)6000
• Kyoto Family Court 075(721)2115 , Maebashi Family Court 027(234)7777
• Matsuyama Family Court 089(941)0520 , Mito Family Court 029(228)5388
• Miyazaki Family Court 0985(23)2711 , Morioka Family Court 019(622)3232
• Nagano Family Court 026(232)0420 , Nagasaki Family Court 095(820)3709
• Nagoya Family Court 052(232)7666 , Naha Family Court 098(836)9500
• Niigata Family Court 025(230)0001 , Oita Family Court 097(537)3184
• Okayama Family Court 086(234)1981 , Osaka Family Court 06(6363)1501
• Saitama Family Court 048(863)4854 , Sapporo Family Court 011(221)7830
• Sendai Family Court 022(265)6811 , Shizuoka Family Court 054(273)1275
• Takamatsu Family Court 087(851)1560 , Tokyo Family Court 03(3503)4355
• Tsu Family Court 059(226)4555 , Utsunomiya Family Court 028(621)0020
• Yamaguchi Family Court 083(923)6818 , Yokohama Family Court 045(681)6935

(The information provided through this service is in Japanese only.)