Circles and clubs
Sports, music, dance and volunteering circles mix exchange and local students.
An exchange semester in Japan goes by fast. The friends you make in the first few weeks often shape the whole experience. Here's how exchange students make friends, both inside their program and beyond it.
Sports, music, dance and volunteering circles mix exchange and local students.
Many universities run weekly sessions.
Projects give you a natural reason to meet outside class.
Meet students from other universities and young professionals. Friend apps in Japan, compared.
Buy Me a Matcha helps you meet new people in Tokyo one at a time over a coffee or matcha. In English, friends only, free on iPhone.
Orientation and dorm events, university circles, buddy programs, on-campus language exchanges, and outside clubs, events and friend apps.
Join a university circle and go every week, use your buddy program, attend on-campus language exchanges and look for classes with group projects.
The first weeks are usually easy because everyone is new. It gets harder later, so keep meeting new people after the first month.
Yes. Buy Me a Matcha is a friends-only app for meeting people in Tokyo one at a time in English, including international students.