What does SAME
(Shizuoka City Association for Multicultural Exchange) do?
SAME strives to promote cultural
understanding through various activities including the promotion
of volunteer work,international exchange, and sister city
pursuits.
The SAME
Shizuoka Office
The SAME Shizuoka
office is open from Monday to Friday 8:30-17:15 (1F CCC 4-16
Ote-machi, Aoi-ward, Shizuoka city, Tel: 054-273-5931).
It is a ten minute
walk from Shizuoka Station (JR).

The SAME
Shimizu Office
The SAME Shimizu
office is open from Monday to Friday 8:30-17:15 (2F Shimizu
Sogo Jimusho 6-8 Asahi-cho Shimizu Shizuoka city, Tel: 054-354-2009).
It is a five
minute walk from Shin Shimizu Station(Shizutetsu).

News
and Information provided in foreign languages
Information you can find
at the SAME main office (Shizuoka) and the SAME Shimizu
office:
city maps,a list
of hospitals that can perform medical exams in foreign languages,
how-to-ride-a-bus guides, schools that teach Japanese (guide
in English).
The radio
program FM-Hi (76. MHz)
TAKE FIVE (6:50-6:59) is done in several languages
Monday-Chinese,
Tuesday-Spanish, Wednesday-Tagalog, Thursday- English
Friday- Portuguese
The bulletin
board at the Shizuoka office offers a wide variety of information
exchange.
This information
can be viewed weekdays and Saturdays until 21:00.
Membership
Registration
Mail Consultation
If you cannnot
visit or call the SAME office during the hours the native
speaking counselor is working, you may seek advice via e-mail.
We will get back
to you as soon as we can but please realize this might take
some time.
Also note that
depending on the subject of the question it may not be possible
to supply complete detail by e-mail alone.
