I'm going to a language school in tokyo in april 2025 and plan to do sharehouse accomodation, but in January I want to do homestay for a month to get used to basic japanese and navigating Tokyo as I have never travelled, let alone by myself.
I want to use the service that gogonihon uses for homestay 'Homestay in Japan' but I don't see any reviews for it, and I don't see anyone doing homestays as of recently, all I see are posts from like 11 years ago talking about how they hated it or something lol. Or people talking about their homestay experience from 2005.
So can anyone tell me what your recent (within 3 years) homestay experience was like? Preferably those who didn't go through a family friend, university, or school exhange program but stand-alone websites like 'Homestay in Japan'.
by Curly3691