Finding housing in Tokyo can be challenging and expensive, so it is best to start making arrangements early, especially financial arrangements. An average studio apartment (a 35 sq. m. / 315 sq. ft. apartment with one room and a galley kitchen and bathroom) within a one-hour train ride of ICS can easily cost 120,000 yen per month, including deposits, heating, water, and electricity, for apartments without guarantors. Also, the average Japanese manager in Tokyo commutes 90 minutes each way to work, so plan on a minimum commute of at least 50 minutes each way to ICS if you want to live in a studio apartment in the 120,000 yen range.

Housing Resources

Japanese housing often requires a guarantor, but it is sometimes possible to find accommodations that do not require one. The following is a selection of websites used by Hitotsubashi ICS students in the past. Please note that none of these websites or services are in any way endorsed or affiliated with Hitotsubashi ICS:

http://www.japt.co.jp/e-top/index.html
http://www.tokyoapartment.jp/
http://www.sakura-house.com/
http://www.oakridge-housing.com/
http://tokyo.apartment-office.com/
http://www.tokyorent.com/
http://www.tokyoapartments.jp/

Hotel Accommodations

Please plan on arriving two or three weeks before school starts to find an apartment. Budget hotels near ICS that you can stay in while searching for an apartment, such as the following, cost 4,000 - 8,000 yen per night:

Sakura Hotel: http://www.sakura-hotel.co.jp/index.html
Bauhouse: http://www.bauhousetokyo.com/
Week Stays: http://www.tokyoapartments.jp/
YMCA Asia Youth Center: http://www.ymcajapan.org/ayc/jp/
Hotel Villa Fontaine Jimbocho: http://www.hvf.jp/eng/jimbocho.php
Hotel Villa Fontaine Kudanshita: http://www.hvf.jp/eng/kudanshita.php