Hi everyone! After a couple months thinking I’ve almost decided to leave my home country for good. And with that, comes lots of questions that I hope I can get answered here.
Quick summmary: I’m a 19 year old male, living in Sweden. In 2024 I plan to travel to Japan for 2 weeks, to see if it actually fits me. And if I decide then to study in Japan, I’ll begin in 2025, with language school and after that, University –> Work.
So, all the questions I have:
1. I’m aware that the Student Visa requires an amount of money in my bank account. Like 2 million yen for a year. For those who know what CSN is, will that cover it, if I take a student loan from CSN?1.5 Can I pay off the CSN whenever I want, like when I have a job, or is it after an amount of time?
2. Does the Student Visa have a limit of time? Or can I use it for both Language school and University as long as I renew it?
3. If I have around 2 million yen in my bank account + the CSN (around 200k yen a month?), Will I be able to live on that?
4. How difficult is it to get a place to live, preferrably a private apartment? Can GoGoNihon help me with this?
5. The one thing I would have to get shipped is my PC, is it possible to ship that over to Japan?
6. Is it possible to take 2 separate CSN loans? One for Language school and one for University. So the loans get combined or something.
7. Is the process difficult to get from Sweden to study in a language school? Getting the Student Visa, COE, apartment, a school to study in. Or is it pretty easy? – Will GoGoNihon assist me if I have more questions/need help from them?
That’s all questions I have for now, I hope you’re willing to answer some or all of them. Thank you.
EDIT: I will get CSN for Language school. So most of the things seems to be sorted out, also I’m going earlier. Instead of traveling there in 2024, I’ll just move there instead and start language school in October.
by Zlade_04