American Student graduating early and hoping to move to Japan

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **American Student graduating early and hoping to move to Japan**

   Hi Everyone,

   I’m graduating from my university in the US early (in March instead of June) and am hoping to spend three months in Japan before my job starts in July. I used to come to Japan a lot as a child and just came back from a two week holiday in the country with some friends and am certain that I’d like to do this.

   I am hoping to live in Kyoto and enroll in an intensive Japanese course. I know how to read some Kanji due to taking Chinese for 9 years, but have just started Hiragana on Duolingo. Ideally I’d self study Japanese for the next three months, so that by the time I come to Japan in March, I’d be able to have the basics down already.

   I could rent an apartment for my time here, but think it would be cool to live with a host family. Fortunately, money isn’t a huge issue in this case.

   I would certainly appreciate suggestions and would love to discuss further with some of you through DMs.

   Thanks so much

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2. This sub is more for people trying to permanently move to Japan. If you only want to come for 3 months, you can do that on a tourist visa.

   I would just google language schools and find a decent one. And then do the same for house stays – although personally I would skip the formality of this and just stay at various AirBnbs (or Couchsurfing — unsure how big it is in Japan) that have good reviews for the sociability of the host. This will be infinitely less involved than applying to a formal house stay program.

3. > hoping to spend three months in Japan before my job starts in July

   Moving to Japan ≠ vacationing in Japan

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