Yono-Gakuin Japanese Language School

Yono-Gakuin Japanese Language School is located at 4-78 Kishiki-cho in Omiya-ku, Saitama-shi, about six minutes on foot from the East Exit of Saitama-shintoshin Station on the JR line. The campus sits in Saitama Prefecture, between Omiya and the Saitama Shintoshin district.

Studying Japanese in Saitama

The school is a limited responsibility company that began Japanese language instruction on 1 July 1988. Its authorized course is the General Course, offered over one and a half years with 1,200 class hours, one year and nine months with 1,400 hours, or two years with 1,600 hours, with admission months of April, July and October depending on the course length.

Applicants must have completed 12 years of formal school education.

The school describes careful guidance by a class-based teacher, including academic and daily life counseling. It holds cultural experiences, trips, parties and community exchange activities, and offers support for daily life and part-time work.

For people already living in Japan, the school makes a distinction between joining at a level already reached and starting with the two phonetic scripts. It gives April, July and October as starting points for learners beginning with hiragana and katakana. That detail matters for local residents looking for their first Japanese class as well as for students moving to Saitama.