Toimikke (NPO)
No one left
on the street.
Your donation means that tonight, someone has a safe place to sleep.
60nights
Emergency accommodation provided, monthly average
3,000+
Instances of support, cumulative
68spots
Pickup spots
1,081+
People supported, cumulative
One day in one person's life
It was a life that cost ¥3,900 a day.
A 26-year-old man lost his events job during the pandemic. For the six months that followed, he lived on gig shift work and internet cafés alone. The day after working, his body would not move unless he rested. To stay alive, he got through each day on a budget of ¥3,900.
What one day cost
= In other words
Your ¥3,000 a month
covers a whole day
of someone's living costs.
About what a cup of coffee costs — and it becomes tomorrow for someone who would otherwise have spent the night outside.
Source: Tokyo Shimbun, "Gig shift work 'hacks' the need for approval", 25 February 2025 (Japanese)
An SOS at night, and what came after
Behind the numbers are
individual nights.
What brought people to us, and the small changes that followed. (Details have been reconstructed to protect privacy.)
"Even in work, my life will not settle."
Before
His home situation deteriorated and he left not long after turning eighteen. He moved between jobs with company dormitories and life in internet cafés, working through day-payment apps. When his app account was suspended he began looking for short-term work, but his income would not stabilise and his life gradually reached a dead end.
After meeting Toimikke
He used emergency support at his nearest pickup spot and secured accommodation and food for that night. He did not take up a consultation straight away, but met a staff member several months later. He continued working with our support alongside him and, about six months on, when the strain on his health and finances reached its limit, a staff member accompanied him and he was connected to public assistance.
"I keep looking for work, but I have nowhere to live."
Before
He had worked in catering jobs that came with a dormitory, but the contracts were short and he changed jobs repeatedly. Unable to find another job with accommodation, he ended up commuting to work from an internet café. The nightly cost eroded his finances and his money was close to running out.
After meeting Toimikke
He found us through an online search and secured accommodation and food for that night. The next day he met a support worker, who accompanied him to a public support desk and helped him through the application. At the same time, he was able to start looking for his next job.
"I got away, and then lost both my home and my job."
Before
Because of her family circumstances she grew up in social care until she was eighteen. As an adult she moved in with a partner she met at work, and began to experience domestic violence. To change the situation she left home and took a live-in job, but soon lost it and had to leave the dormitory too. With no stable housing and a lot of luggage to carry, she was pushed to the point of considering one of the exploitative "poverty business" operators.
After meeting Toimikke
She found emergency support on her phone and secured one night's accommodation and food. The next day she met a support worker, who accompanied her to a public support desk and helped her through the application. Reaching the support she needed secured her safety for the time being and gave her a base from which to rebuild.
Why emergency support is needed now
This is not a story about someone unusual.
People whose housing has no stable foundation are estimated to number in the thousands in Tokyo alone. Most of them fall through the gaps in the system and become invisible.
4,000+
People in unstable housing in Tokyo (estimate)
1 in 2
Live on day-payment work
50%
Are in their twenties or thirties
* Among people who came to Toimikke saying they had nowhere to live
This is not a failure of individual effort. It is a problem in how society is built.
People tend to assume that work will sort things out, or that you can rely on your family if you are in trouble. But most of the people who come to Toimikke have lost the foundations and the options they would need to rebuild.
An unequal starting line, set by home
Poverty, abuse or family breakdown means some people enter adult life with no one to rely on and no savings behind them.
Work that breaks your health
Long hours, harassment and insecure employment damage people's physical and mental health, and can cost them their job and their home at the same time.
A system you cannot get housing back from
Once you lose your housing, upfront costs, guarantors and emergency contacts become barriers that make renting again very hard.
The loop of day work and nightly lodging
When today's work pays for tonight's bed, there is no room to rest and nothing to save — which makes the instability very hard to leave.
"You may feel there is nothing left to be done. But I am working flat out to get people back to the starting line. It is about helping someone think things through somewhere warm and bright, rather than somewhere cold and dark."
How ongoing support works
From emergency support to rebuilding a life.
We do more than deliver a bed and a meal for the day. We stay with people through the consultation that follows, accompany them to public support, and remain available afterwards.
Get them through the night
Emergency support secures somewhere to be, and food, for that day.
Work out the next step together
We meet in person to make sense of the situation and, where needed, consider extending accommodation or other forms of support.
Walk alongside the rebuilding
We connect people to public support and partner organizations, and stay available until they have housing and work again.
Where your donation goes
This is how your monthly gift arrives.
A monthly donation turns into concrete support for getting through tonight.
5,000yen/month
Provides one night of emergency accommodation. This is the amount most donors choose.
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After the support
Words from the people who received it.
"If the spot had not been there that night, I do not know what would have become of me. The place to stay mattered, of course, but so did the staff encouraging me the next day."
Former user, twenties
"Above all it let me catch my breath. I was so exhausted that only after sleeping could I think calmly about what came next. I am back at work now."
Former user, thirties
A message from our director
"I want to help people think things through somewhere warm and bright, rather than somewhere cold and dark."
The people Toimikke works with are those who fall through society's safety net at this very moment.
Nowhere to sleep tonight. A phone that, once the battery dies, means you cannot get to tomorrow's job either. No family or friends to turn to, and no idea where to ask for help.
The more cornered someone is, the harder it becomes to ask for help. We have taken in those small signals, secured people's safety for the night, and stayed with them until they reached the support they needed.
We want to extend this work to many more areas. Like the police or an ambulance, we want to build another social safety net that connects you to help immediately when you lose your place. A system where anyone, anytime, anywhere, can send an SOS and actually be reached — not as an ideal, but implemented in society.
Toimikke's work is sustained by donations. To bring people who have lost their housing back to the starting line, we ask for your help.
Toimikke (NPO), Representative Director
SASAKI Daishiro （佐々木 大志郎）
Our work continues to draw public attention.
We have been covered by multiple media outlets, continuously, for more than five years.
MEDIA / Recent coverage
"A new kind of poverty": gig shift work instead of public assistance
Unable to escape poverty, in the shadow of easy new ways of working. Toimikke's support work was featured. (Japanese)
"Eat a meal, sleep in a futon": a 47-year-old man's wish is an ordinary life
Rising numbers of working-age people asking for help, and what the reporter saw at Toimikke's front line. (Japanese)
Other coverage
PARTNERS / Pickup spots and supporting organizations(a selection, in no particular order)
56
organizations
68 pickup spots / as of 1 November 2025
認定NPO法人育て上げネット ／ パルシステム東京 ／ パルシステム埼玉 ／ 労働者協同組合ワーカーズコープ・センター事業団 東京東部事業本部 ／ 株式会社アクセス蒲田事業所 ／ あおい不動産アドバイザーズ ／ 東京ほくと医療生活協同組合 本部組織部 ／ NPO法人ライフサポートさくら ／ 有限会社ウインザー ／ 文京メディア・ブリッジ合同会社 ／ 社会福祉法人 中野区社会福祉協議会 ／ 障害者就労支援センターなぎ ／ 認定NPO法人難民支援協会 ／ 聖イグナチオ教会 ／ NPO法人サンカクシャ ／ 代々木総合法律事務所 ／ NGOピースボート ／ ニュクス薬局 ／ 東京DEW ／ 特定非営利活動法人ぷれいす東京 ／ プライドハウス東京レガシー ／ BEER＆CAFE BERG（ベルク） ／ 社会福祉士中村事務所 ／ 電気湯 ／ ふらっと・とーと ／ フードネット江戸川 ／ LIFULL ／ HUB ／ 夜のパン屋さん アーバンネット大手町ビル ／ 本屋とキッチン よりまし堂 ／ おかえりワークスペース ／ 認定NPO法人プラン・インターナショナル・ジャパン ／ こども食堂たべるば ／ バー猫 ／ よりみち自由室 ／ コドモカフェ オトナバーTummy（タミー） ／ そぞろ書房 ／ タコシェ ／ リサイクルショップワンポイント ／ イベントバーリコード ／ 古本サンカンオー ／ 麺屋どうげんぼうず ／ bar moja2 ／ 雑貨と本gururi ／ 仙蔵寺 ／ マルジナリア書店 ／ 甘藷 生駒 ／ 認定NPO法人ビッグイシュー基金 ／ 光照院 ／ 魚草 ／ 古書ほうろう ／ 泪橋ホール ／ イベントバー エデン ／ factory ／ みんと薬局 ／ みんなのリビング葛が谷 ／ 女性のスペース結
RECOGNITION
Certified as a Specified Non-Profit Corporation (founded 2022)
290 people
Emergency support provided in FY2024
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
We are sorry — donations to Toimikke are not currently tax-deductible. Deductible or not, every donation goes into emergency support on the ground.
Yes. A monthly donation can be stopped at any time. Your receipt email contains a cancellation link, so you can cancel without contacting our office.
It funds the emergency help packs (food and daily necessities), emergency accommodation, running the pickup spots, and the staff time for consultations and referrals. We publish how funds are used in our activity reports.
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