Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters (Mainichi/Makoto Ogawa)

       TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced that it will offer accommodations from Dec. 27 to Jan. 5 to those who have lost their homes due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

       The move is intended to provide rooms to homeless people when public institutions are closed for the holidays and there are fewer day-labor jobs available. Tokyo has signed contracts with multiple business hotels to prepare 1,000 rooms so that people in need can stay when there are vacancies.

       Applications can be made at the metropolitan government's "Tokyo Challenge Net," which supports homeless people, on the third floor of Tokyo Health Plaza Hygeia in Shinjuku Ward's Kabukicho district between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The service counter will be closed on Sundays and holidays but open until 5 p.m. on Dec. 29 and 30, and Jan. 2.

       For inquiries, contact Tokyo Challenge Net by phone at 0120-874-225 (in Japanese) or 0120-874-505 (women only). The organization's website is: https://www.tokyo-challenge.net

       (Japanese original by Asako Takeuchi, Tokyo City News Department)

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