Incoming Prefectural JET, For sure rural?

Curious if anyone knows whether not being assigned a city from the get go means you’ll for sure be in inaka or if there’s a chance you’ll be at a prefectural school in a city.

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  1. A city might mean ES/JHS, and not SHS. It doesn’t tell you rural vs. urban.

  2. I’m prefectural and I ended up in a city, albeit a smaller, out of the way one.

  3. Prefectural just mean you’re working in a senior high school, has nothing to do with rural vs city. All my friends and I are prefectural for where we live. I live in one of the largest cities in my prefecture with 2 schools while a friend lives in a rural area and needs a car for their 4 schools. It all varies.

  4. Some “cities” aren’t all very city-like and can be quite rural. You said you were a prefectural? That just means you will work for schools under the prefectural BoE so 9/10 that is high school and not anything lower (unless its a secondary school with JHS/SHS combined. Its not necessarily indicative of rural or urban. However, if you got a prefectural position in… let’s say Kochi? I would imagine several of those positions are rural.

  5. Some prefectural ALTs get cities, some get countryside… Sometimes there’s both local and Prefectural ALTs in the same place, they just have a different office, management, schools etc. Prefectural ALTs work for SHS as those are run by the prefecture not the city.

    It’s a little complicated, a little confusing, and everywhere is a little different. I see you’re coming to Akita, so that’s how it works at least in the part of Akita that I’m in.

    If you want to DM me to ask anything else feel free!

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