Shizuoka Japan Language College

Shizuoka Japan Language College, known in Japanese as 静岡日本語学院, is a Japanese language school in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Its campus is located at 110-11 Miyamae-cho, about a fifteen-minute walk from Higashishizuoka Station on the JR line.

Studying Japanese in Shizuoka

The school's authorized courses are a two-year college preparatory course and a one-year-six-month college preparatory course, both aimed at preparing students for entry into higher education. The two-year course runs 1,600 class hours over 80 weeks with April admission, while the one-year-six-month course runs 1,200 class hours over 60 weeks with October admission. Students can receive guidance from specialist instructors to prepare for university entrance examination subjects across a range of degree pathways.

The college is part of an educational group that includes the Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology and technical colleges. That connection may be particularly relevant to a learner interested in scientific or technical study in Japanese. Preparation for an entrance examination and admission to the next institution are separate stages. When comparing the two routes here, the longer one gives a student another twenty teaching weeks in which to develop the language used in further study.