Home Stay

I am a recent university student in Tokyo Japan and will be staying in Japan for 2 years. I need a new place to live so for my Asian studies Major, I would like to live with a host family who is shinto and or buddhist. How can I find this kind of host family or homestay in Japan? I am certainly willing to pay rent and work or help at the temples and shrines as part of the experience. I can speak intermediate level japanese and continue to study it in school. Please help.

Thankyou!

Contact the Japan-America Society for information. There are quite a few branches around the country so a Google search for one in your area is the best way.

Does anyone know of any good sites to find a host family in Tokyo? Has anyone with experience found a host family online / how much did it cost?

Any helpful links would be nice.

This may help.

http://japanese.about.com/od/homestay/Homestay.htm

Looking for reasonable websites. Maybe someone knows someone or would like to host themselves.
Will pay or work for stay! (=

firstly how old are you? if you are still young than ASX (i think) is a good place to looks and some others like ’student exchange new zealand and australia’ that sort of thing.

We’d like to be a host family for an exchange student, preferably from South Korea.
What is a good program that pays us?

ya probably i think so its paid….it must be..

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It was beautiful. Styled like the buildings in his movies, and lots of plants and water pumps and old fashioned steam-punk things around… Just gorgeous. I wasn’t really allowed to take pictures inside, but I did take a lot outside and I get some video footage of inside at certain places. We all walked around and I was having a fit over just how beautiful everything was.

Then we went to the showing of Hoshi wo Katta Hi (”The Day I Harvested a Planet”), one of Miyazaki’s short films. From the posters I saw outside the theater, I noticed that the main character looked a lot like Howl when he was a young boy, so I was immediately attracted to this movie. But then it started, and it was so good and the soundtrack was so amazingly beautiful that I just fell in love.

As I walked around the gift shop, I was sad that there wasn’t really much Howl’s Moving Castle stuff (it’s my favorite book and the movie adaptation is also a favorite). I got to the section where they had like silverware and glass things… I saw a silver ring with red jewels and I just froze. Engraved on the inside was “Howl & Sophie”. My heart melted instantly and I asked to have a look at it to see if it would fit (since most of the time, rings are way too big for me), and it fit perfectly. I stood there for five minutes staring at the ring, then my host dad came over to ask what was up. I told him that I wanted the ring so bad, and that it was about $127. He talked to the cashier and told me that this was the only store you could get the ring at.

And as I looked at the names in the ring once more, I said, “I’ll buy it.”

After going to the register and getting everything wrapped up, we found out that I had just bought the last ring and they were now sold out. *___*

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Trying to prepare for the worst before I leave for Florence! Maybe you can help?

5 MORE WEEKS!!!

For those of you who are studying abroad, maybe you will have better luck than I had using these free and awesome homestay resources:

http://homestayfinder.com/
http://homestayweb.com/

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Eric Liljenstolpe shares some insights he has learned from 10 years of working with university students in Costa Rica about living with a host family. Eric is the Director of Institute of Global Education, University of Dreams Costa Rica and of the Globalsolutions Group.

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hi
hi Dear Sir or Madam,
my name is Zakaria, i’m 17 moroccan, i want to visit usa ( summer 2010 )
and i am looking for families who want to host Tourist visitor
i am waiting

have a good day..

http://www.studentexchange.us/usa.html

IH London has a dedicated Accommodation Officer to help you choose where to stay in London. Options include Halls of Residence accommodation, a homestay with a local family or a central London hotel.

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