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JAPAN : Tokyo

Note from the author: Japan is regarded as being a particularly expensive country. 

Tuition Programs

• 1 lesson: 50 minutes.
• Minimum age: 18 years.
• Schedule (09:00 AM - 1:00 PM).
• Maximum of 12 students per class.
• Schoolbooks not included: between 2.000 and 3.000 JPY
• Printed school hardware included
• Access to Internet and email
• Test and linguistic certificate of formation.

CAUTION: FOR CANADIANS, A VISA IS REQUIRED

FOREIGN NATIONALS: PLEASE CONTACT THE EMBASSY OR THE CONSULATE OF JAPAN IN YOUR COUNTRY.

Starting Dates

The courses must imperatively start on these dates.

Closing dates

Options Available

• Airport transfer (one way): 25.000 JPY 
• Additional day in family 3.500 JPY.
• Private Course on request.
• Longer stay (6 months and up): upon request
• Our prices are available from January 1st to December 31, 2002. These prices never include the Air Fare.
  

Costs

Currency Converter

The displayed prices are in thousands of Yens (JPY). Ex: 88 JPY must be read 88.000 JPY

Lodging in family, residence or GUESTHOUSE (shared apartment)

• Arrival on Sunday, preceding the beginning of the courses. 
• Departure on Saturday following the end of the courses.
• In residence, single or double occupancy (sharing guaranteed), meals not included. 4 weeks minimum reservation is required. Air conditioning, TV. Between 30 and 50 minutes from school by bus. Deposit of 10.000 JPY refundable at the end of your stay + placement fee (one time) non refundable: 40.000 JPY
• In family, (short stay only,  8 weeks maximum), single occupancy, 2 meals per day. Price per week.
• In a Guesthouse (shared apartment), meals not included. Prices according to availability. Between 20 and 45 minutes from school by bus
  

  Program / week	4
  In residence, single occupancy	Around 64.000 JPY: Final price according to availability
  In residence,  double occupation	Around 42.000 JPY: Final price according to availability
  Guesthouse (shared apartment)	Price upon request according to availability
  Program / week	1
  Family	24.500 JPY

Our greeting families are recruited with great care. The criteria of selection are very rigorous and each family must satisfy a precise schedule of conditions: excellent morality, desire to communicate with their host, satisfactory social standing. We should specify that the families will only speak with you the language of the country where you will be. It is the principle of the immersion courses!

Town information's

Tokyo is the capital of Japan in all fields: cultural, political, commercial, industrial and economic. Tokyo has 23 metropolitan districts, satellite towns, and even several islands, dispersed in the peaceful bay of Tokyo.

The agglomeration of Tokyo counts more than 11 million inhabitants; which makes the Japanese capital the third largest city in the world. The imperial Palace rises in the center of the city, close to the bay of Tokyo. In the North of the Palace, the Ueno park is very liked by the Japanese and the tourists. The cherry trees are particularly appreciated in spring, including the concert hall, the zoo and several temples. In the south-east of the imperial Palace is the district of Ginza, where one comes to have fun, and Marunouchi, the center of businesses. Kanda district is known for its bookshops, and Asakusa contains the majority of restaurants and theatres of the capital, all the way to the North-East of the Palace.

Tokyo has one of the best public transportation systems in the world, with kilometers of motorways, and a dense private and public network of underground subway lines, of which the famous " monorail " connection with one of the two international airports of Tokyo, and the lines of buses. 
Tokyo weather