Temple University Japan Dorms and Apartments: Where TUJ Students Actually Live

Last reviewed 1 Sep 2026 · 30 min read

For your first year at Temple University Japan, you do not get to choose where you live.

That is the single most important fact about TUJ housing, and it is buried three clicks deep on the university's own website. Every student arriving on a new student visa sponsored by TUJ is required to live in a TUJ dorm for two consecutive semesters. Not one. Two. You can apply for a waiver, and a surprising number of people qualify for one without realizing it, but the default is that your first academic year is decided for you before you land.

This guide is written for people who will live near Temple University Japan, not visit it. Incoming freshmen, transfer students, study-abroad students on a semester or a year, graduate students in the Law School or the College of Education, and the parents trying to work out a budget from the other side of the world. We have built it around the three things that actually decide where you end up: which campus you are assigned to, whether the housing requirement applies to you, and what happens in the second year when it lapses and you are on your own.

One warning before we start, and it is new. TUJ is no longer a one-campus university in Tokyo. In August 2026 it opened the Hillside Center in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, and moved most first-year and Bridge Program teaching there. If you are a freshman, the campus you will spend your days at is not the one in the photographs.

City Campus	1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya Ward (世田谷区), Sangenjaya
Second campus	Hillside Center, 1-1-1 Kuji, Takatsu Ward (高津区), Kawasaki
Campus stations	Sangenjaya (Tokyu Den-en-toshi DT03, Tokyu Setagaya line), Mizonokuchi (Tokyu Den-en-toshi DT10, Tokyu Oimachi), Musashi-Mizonokuchi (JR Nambu)
Between campuses	About 25 to 30 minutes door to door
Cheapest TUJ dorm	Nogawadai, ¥470,000 per semester, all in
Most expensive TUJ dorm	Yoga Parkside Residence, ¥600,000 per semester, all in
Average 1K rent, Sangenjaya	~¥121,400
Average 1K rent, Yoga	~¥114,000
Average 1K rent, Mizonokuchi	~¥92,500
Best for	Second-year and later students, transfer students over 20, anyone splitting time between two campuses
Not ideal for	First-semester visa students, who have no choice, and anyone expecting central Tokyo

Is Living Near Temple University Japan Worth It?

For year one, the question does not apply. For year two onward, yes, and the reason is arithmetic rather than sentiment.

A semester in the newest TUJ dorm costs ¥600,000. That covers roughly the middle of August to the middle of December, which is about three and a half to four months of occupancy. Work it back to a monthly figure and you are paying somewhere near ¥158,000 a month for a 16 to 18 square meter room. The average 1K within a ten-minute walk of Yoga station, the dorm's own station, is about ¥114,000.

The dorm figure includes utilities, internet, bedding and a bed you did not have to buy, and it includes the winter break, so the comparison is not quite as brutal as those two numbers look side by side. It is still a large gap. Students say so bluntly, and the moment the requirement lapses most of them leave.

That is the honest frame for this whole guide. The dorm is not value for money and TUJ has never claimed it is. What it buys you is not having to face a Japanese rental agency in your first month in the country, without a residence card, a bank account, a Japanese phone number or a guarantor. For a nineteen-year-old arriving from Philadelphia in August, that is worth something real. It is just worth it once, not twice.

Where Is Temple University Japan? Two Campuses, in Two Prefectures

TUJ was a single-site university in Tokyo for seven years. As of the fall 2026 semester it is not, and every housing guide written before March 2026 is now describing a university that no longer exists in that shape.

The City Campus, Sangenjaya, Setagaya Ward

The main campus sits at 1-14-29 Taishido, in Setagaya Ward, a few minutes from Sangenjaya station. TUJ moved here in 2019 and has been adding buildings around it since, including the three-story Owl Center in fall 2024.

Sangenjaya is a genuinely good place to be a student. It is five minutes from Shibuya on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi line, it has an enormous concentration of cheap eating and drinking, and it is close enough to Shibuya that people routinely walk or cycle home after the last train. It is also loud, cramped, and expensive for the space you get.

If you are a second-year or later undergraduate, a graduate student, or a Law School student, this is your campus.

Taishido is not a big neighborhood, and the campus sits right inside it. Our neighborhood guide to Taishido in Setagaya covers the streets immediately around the university in more detail than we can here, including which side of the tracks is quieter.

The Hillside Center, Mizonokuchi, Kawasaki

On 27 February 2026 TUJ completed the purchase of an eight-story, roughly 7,000 square meter building at 1-1-1 Kuji, Takatsu Ward, Kawasaki, and named it the Hillside Center. Classes started there at the end of August 2026. The university expects 800 to 1,000 students to study there in the fall 2026 semester.

It holds 23 classrooms, two multipurpose rooms, a 300-seat auditorium, a library, a fitness center, music rooms, an esports lab and a dance and recreation area. It teaches first-year courses, the Bridge Program for students conditionally admitted while their English is assessed, and general education courses in the liberal arts and STEM.

This is not a satellite or an overflow annex. Japan's Ministry of Education added the Kuji address to TUJ's official designation as a Foreign University, Japan Campus on 29 July 2026, alongside Taishido and the Kyoto site. That page is published in Japanese, as are most of the official sources in this guide. It is a real campus with a legal existence, and if you are a freshman it is where you will be.

Do not trust the address to tell you where it is. Kuji has its own station on the JR Nambu line, and it is roughly two kilometers away on foot. The stations that matter are Mizonokuchi on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi and Oimachi lines and Musashi-Mizonokuchi on the JR Nambu line, both a little under a kilometer from the site, and Tsudayama on the Nambu line, which is marginally closer than either but serves almost nothing else. TUJ does not publish a walking time from any of them, and neither will we.

One number circulating in search results needs correcting. TUJ's own announcement says 12 minutes between the two campuses by car along Route 246. That is not a twelve-minute walk from Mizonokuchi station, and several summaries have turned it into one.

Which Campus Will You Actually Attend?

Work this out before you look at a single listing.

If you are entering as a freshman or through the Bridge Program in or after fall 2026, plan for Hillside. If you are a transfer student entering with enough credits to be past the general education block, plan for the City Campus. If you are somewhere in between, expect both, and read the section on Yoga below, because being stuck between two campuses is now a normal TUJ housing problem rather than an unusual one.

Students noticed the split immediately. On the TUJ subreddit in July 2026, a month before Hillside opened, one student complained that registration offered two classes at the main campus against four at Hillside and that Hillside was about an hour from home. The replies did not argue. They pointed out that at least it is all on one train line, agreed it was not ideal, and suggested the fix: live near Yoga station, roughly the midpoint.

The Rule Most Guides Miss: Year One Is Decided For You

TUJ's tuition page states it plainly. All students receiving a new student visa sponsored by TUJ are required to stay in a TUJ dorm in the Tokyo area. The housing requirements page sets out the length:

• Fall or spring start: two consecutive semesters, required
• Fall start: may elect to stay up to three semesters, if full-time summer registration is confirmed and paid during priority registration
• Spring start: two semesters, unless you take no summer courses and go home
• Summer start: one semester only
• Visa switchers, meaning students already in Japan moving their sponsorship to TUJ: the requirement does not apply

There is also a sentence on TUJ's apartment-search page that every prospective student should read before they build a plan around university help. It says that TUJ does not operate as a relocation service or real estate agency, and does not serve as a guarantor for housing. The university will run housing fairs and information sessions. It will not sign for you.

Who Can Get a Waiver

This is the part almost nobody checks, and it changes the answer for a large slice of TUJ's intake. You may petition for a waiver if you meet one or more of these:

• You are 20 years old or older by the time you arrive in Japan
• You will live with a family member, immediate or extended, legally residing in Japan
• You have lived in Japan for more than six months on SOFA status or another non-tourist visa within two years of filing the petition
• You are married
• You can document another highly compelling reason

Read the first one again. Twenty, on arrival. A transfer student entering as a junior, a study-abroad student in their third year, a returning student, a graduate applicant: all routinely over 20. Student forums repeat that the threshold is 21. It is not. TUJ's own page says 20, and the age at which a rule applies is not something to take from a forum.

The waiver is a petition, not a right, and TUJ approves it at its discretion. But if you are over 20 and nobody told you the option existed, that is a ¥1,200,000 misunderstanding.

The Deadlines That Actually Matter

The Housing Plan is submitted through the TUJ Application Hub and it is mandatory for every new visa-sponsored student, including those requesting a waiver or a homestay. Miss the deadline and you are in a dorm.

Semester	Housing Plan opens	Deadline to submit
Fall	May 1	June 10
Spring	October 1	October 25
Summer	February 15	March 10

Note how early the fall deadline is. If you are admitted in the spring for an August start, your housing decision is due in the first half of June, before most students have thought about it. Housing allocation itself happens closer to the start of the semester, and TUJ states plainly that your stated preference is not guaranteed.

Temple University Japan Dorms: What They Cost and What You Get

TUJ uses four residences in the greater Tokyo area, two of which it operates and two of which are general student houses shared with other universities. All four are co-ed, all four are non-smoking and alcohol-free, and each has a live-in dorm manager.

The prices below are published on TUJ's tuition and fees page, linked above, and include everything: rent, utilities, internet, basic furnishings, security, and the break periods after the fall and spring semesters. There is no meal plan in any of them.

Residence	Location	Fall or spring	Summer	Fall + spring
Nogawadai Dorm	Miyamae Ward, Kawasaki	¥470,000	¥370,000	¥940,000
Tokyo Student-House Musashi Kosugi	Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki	¥500,000	¥390,000	¥1,000,000
Uninest Kamikita House	Suginami Ward, Tokyo	¥500,000	not available	¥1,000,000
Yoga Parkside Residence	Setagaya Ward, Tokyo	¥600,000	¥470,000	¥1,200,000

Source: TUJ Tuition and Fees, last updated June 2026, retrieved 1 September 2026. Kamikita House is offered in the fall and spring semesters only. Prices are subject to change without notice, so treat these as the current published rates rather than a locked quote.

Yoga Parkside Residence, Setagaya

The newest and the only one actually in the same ward as the City Campus. It opened for the fall 2026 semester, completed in March 2026, with 184 beds over ten floors at 2-14-5 Tamagawadai, Setagaya Ward.

Rooms are 16 to 18 square meters, which is genuinely a lot for a dorm and roughly the size of a small Tokyo 1K. Each has a bed, a private bathroom with a shower, a desk and chair, air conditioning, a small refrigerator, a washing machine, a sink, a microwave and a closet. That in-room washing machine matters more than it sounds: in the other three residences you queue for a coin laundry. Bedding is provided, towels are not, and there is high-speed WiFi. Downstairs there is a large lounge and shared kitchens on the first floor.

TUJ gives the commute as about 24 minutes to the City Campus and about 31 minutes to Hillside. Yoga station is a nine-minute walk from the building, and we checked that claim against the neighboring block: a building 60 meters from the dorm advertises 用賀駅 徒歩9分, and Japanese property advertising is legally required to compute walking time at 80 meters of road distance per minute. The nine minutes holds up. Kinuta Park is an eight-minute walk in the other direction.

At ¥600,000 a semester it is also the most expensive TUJ dorm by a clear margin. Nobody has lived in it long enough yet to tell you whether it is worth the premium.

Tokyo Student-House Musashi Kosugi, Kawasaki

A 390-room student house at 399-1 Ichinotsubo, Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki, built in 2017 and operated commercially, so TUJ students share it with students from other universities. Rooms are 11 to 12 square meters with a private bathroom and shower. There is a cafeteria, though no meal plan is included and you pay for what you eat, plus a lounge, a garden terrace, multipurpose rooms, a small gym, a shared kitchen and a coin laundry.

The commute is the problem. TUJ publishes about 50 minutes to the City Campus using the Tokyu lines and about 40 minutes to Hillside on the JR Nambu line. Musashi-Kosugi itself is a strong location on its own terms, with direct Tokyu access to both Shibuya and Yokohama, and plenty of cheap student-facing food. It is just not near either campus.

Nogawadai Dorm, Kawasaki

The cheapest option and the oldest building, 92 rooms over five floors at 1-26-28 Nogawadai, Miyamae Ward, Kawasaki, dating from 1991. TUJ says the rooms are slightly larger than in the other dorms but does not publish a figure. There is a large lounge, a yard, a multipurpose room, shared kitchens on every floor and a coin laundry.

The nearest station is Saginuma on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi line, about ten minutes away by bus, with Kajigaya as a local-stop alternative. TUJ gives about 50 minutes to the City Campus and about 35 to Hillside. The bus leg is the part current residents complain about, because it turns a train commute into a two-mode one.

Residents rate the rooms themselves well. On the TUJ subreddit in May 2026 one wrote that the rooms are very clean but that shared spaces vary by floor, and that despite the stated policy they never had a room check. An earlier resident described the building as showing its age. The 1991 construction date supports that.

Uninest Kamikita House, Suginami

A 291-occupant residence at 4-6-5 Shimotakaido, Suginami Ward, built in 2019, near Kami-Kitazawa station with Sakurajosui as an alternative. Rooms are around 12 square meters. There is a lounge, study rooms, a movie and gaming room, a rooftop garden, a shared kitchen and a card-operated laundry.

TUJ gives about 45 minutes to the City Campus, which is the best of the three non-Yoga options, and 65 to 70 minutes to Hillside, which is by some distance the worst. If you are a freshman heading to Kawasaki every day, this is the assignment to avoid. Kamikita is also fall and spring only, so a summer-start student will not be placed here.

What a Semester of Dorm Fees Actually Buys

TUJ prices housing by semester, which makes it hard to compare against a monthly rent. Here is the arithmetic, using TUJ's own published dates.

The fall 2026 semester runs 31 August to 9 December 2026. The official arrival date in Tokyo was 19 August 2026, and TUJ's housing policy sets move-out as the first Saturday after the semester ends. That gives a fall occupancy of roughly 19 August to 12 December, about three and three-quarter months.

Residence	Fall fee	Approx. monthly equivalent	Local average 1K, same area
Nogawadai	¥470,000	~¥124,000	Mizonokuchi ~¥92,500
Musashi Kosugi	¥500,000	~¥132,000	Mizonokuchi ~¥92,500
Kamikita House	¥500,000	~¥132,000	Setagaya ward 1K ~¥112,800
Yoga Parkside	¥600,000	~¥158,000	Yoga ~¥114,000

The monthly equivalents are our own calculation from TUJ's published semester fees and its published arrival and move-out rules, not figures TUJ publishes. The dorm rate includes utilities, internet and furnishings, which a private 1K does not, so add roughly ¥15,000 to ¥20,000 a month to the rent column before you compare them honestly. Even after that adjustment, every dorm is above its local market rate.

Two costs that do not appear in the table. Cancellation is free more than four weeks before the official arrival date, costs ¥100,000 between four and two weeks, and is non-refundable inside two weeks. And on top of housing, matriculating undergraduates pay a one-time matriculation fee of ¥434,100, a ¥20,000 enrollment deposit, a ¥36,600 orientation fee, and ¥20,900 for the student visa application. Full-time tuition at 12 to 18 credits is ¥910,000 a semester.

The Rules Nobody Reads Until They Have Signed

TUJ's housing policy is a short PDF and it is worth ten minutes of anyone's time before they submit a Housing Plan. Four provisions surprise people:

• No alcohol is permitted in or around TUJ housing, up to 500 meters from the facility
• No outside guests are allowed in a student's room
• No overnight guests, at all
• Dorm managers may enter your room to conduct an inspection even if you are not present

There is a wrinkle worth knowing. Two of the four buildings, Musashi Kosugi and Kamikita House, are commercial student houses, and Japanese students or students who do not need visa sponsorship can contract with them directly. Those private-contract residents are governed by the building's rules, not TUJ's. One Kamikita resident described exactly this in September 2025: TUJ-contract students get no guests, while a private-contract resident in a single room could have overnight guests. Same building, different rulebook.

No source we could find, official or student, confirms a curfew at any TUJ dorm. It is asked about constantly and nobody who has lived in one says there is one.

The Honest Verdict on TUJ Dorms

Do the capacity arithmetic and the shape of the thing becomes clear. TUJ operates two of the four residences itself, Yoga Parkside with 184 beds and Nogawadai with 92, which is 276 beds. TUJ's undergraduate enrollment in fall 2025 was 3,319. The other two buildings are shared with students from Nihon, Meiji, Sophia, Rikkyo, Waseda and others, and TUJ cannot guarantee rooms in them.

That is why the requirements page says your preference is not guaranteed, and it is why students describe being politely moved on after their required semesters. It also explains the timing: a 184-bed residence completed in March 2026, and a campus for 800 to 1,000 students opening five months later, at a university whose undergraduate body has roughly tripled in five years.

The dorms are not a housing program. They are a landing pad with a fixed number of slots, and the university is candid enough about it that the honest response is to plan your second year from the day you arrive, not the week the requirement ends.

TUJ is not the only Tokyo university where the campus you are assigned to decides your housing, and the pattern is worth seeing twice. Our companion guide to apartments near Tokyo University works through the same problem at Todai, where undergraduates spend two years at one campus and then move to another 40 minutes away.

Transport Access and Commute Times

Everything in TUJ's world hangs off one train line. The Tokyu Den-en-toshi line runs from Shibuya out through Sangenjaya, Yoga, Futako-tamagawa and Mizonokuchi, which means the City Campus, the Yoga dorm and the Hillside Center are all on it, in that order, and the whole university is a single seat ride end to end.

That is a real convenience and a real single point of failure, and Japanese residents along the line say both things constantly.

Commute Times From Sangenjaya

Destination	Train Line	Approx. Time	Why It Matters
Shibuya	Den-en-toshi, direct	5 min	Where half your social life happens, and walkable home
Mizonokuchi	Den-en-toshi express, direct	10 min	The Hillside Center
Shinjuku	1 transfer at Shibuya	About 20 min	Job interviews, and the Shinjuku immigration route
Ikebukuro	1 transfer at Shibuya	About 26 min	Cheap eating and cinemas
Tokyo Station	2 transfers	About 28 min	Shinkansen, and anywhere else in Japan
Haneda Airport	2 transfers via Shibuya and Shinagawa	About 56 min	Domestic flights and most Asian routes
Narita Airport	2 transfers, Keisei Skyliner	About 1 hr 27 min	Long-haul, and your first arrival

Times and fares retrieved from a Japanese transfer-search service on 1 September 2026 for an off-peak weekday departure. Rush hour is longer and considerably less pleasant. IC fares from Sangenjaya: Shibuya ¥180, Mizonokuchi ¥227, Shinjuku ¥379, Tokyo ¥389, Ikebukuro ¥389, Haneda ¥716, Narita ¥2,956 by Skyliner or ¥1,626 on the slower Keisei route.

Commute Times From Yoga

Yoga is seven minutes from Mizonokuchi and about fifteen from Shibuya, which is the whole argument for it. The trade is that Den-en-toshi express trains do not stop at Yoga, so every journey toward Shibuya is on a local or semi-express and you watch the fast trains pass. IC fares run ¥180 to Mizonokuchi, ¥227 to Shibuya, ¥426 to Shinjuku and ¥436 to Tokyo or Ikebukuro. Haneda is about 66 minutes and ¥760 by way of the JR Nambu line and the Keikyu line.

Commute Times From Mizonokuchi

If you decide to live near Hillside rather than commute to it, Mizonokuchi is better connected than its reputation suggests: 10 minutes to Sangenjaya, 14 to Shibuya, 29 to Shinjuku, 34 to Ikebukuro and 38 to Tokyo Station, all off-peak, with IC fares of ¥227, ¥250, ¥449, ¥459 and ¥436 respectively. Haneda runs about an hour for ¥978. Three lines meet here, the Den-en-toshi, the Tokyu Oimachi and the JR Nambu, which is one more than Sangenjaya has and the thing residents name first when asked why they live there.

Getting to Haneda and Narita

From anywhere on this stretch of the Den-en-toshi line, Haneda means going into Shibuya or Shinagawa and out again, or crossing to the JR Nambu line and down to Kawasaki. Budget an hour and about ¥700 to ¥1,000 either way.

Narita is the harder one. The fastest route from Sangenjaya is about an hour and a half by Keisei Skyliner at ¥2,956, and the Den-en-toshi line's through-service onto the Keisei Access Express gets you there for ¥1,626 in about an hour and 52 minutes with a single change at Oshiage. If you are arriving for the first time with two suitcases and no Japanese, take the Airport Limousine bus and stop optimizing.

Station Passenger Numbers

Tokyu's published figures for fiscal 2025 put Sangenjaya at 141,665 passengers a day on the Den-en-toshi line, third busiest on the line behind Shibuya at 619,956 and Mizonokuchi at 145,455. Yoga handles 67,678, Futako-tamagawa 91,598. The Setagaya line is reported as a whole rather than by station, at 117,662 a day across all of it. On the JR side, Musashi-Mizonokuchi recorded 77,960 boardings a day in fiscal 2024, 51st in JR East's top 100 stations.

Those two Mizonokuchi figures are not comparable and should not be added together. Tokyu counts boardings plus alightings, JR East counts boardings only.

Rent Near Temple University Japan

Rent by Layout in Setagaya Ward

Layout	Average Rent (per month)	Best For
1R (ワンルーム)	~¥108,200	Students on a tight budget, one open room
1K	~¥112,800	Singles wanting the kitchen separated from the sleeping space
1DK	~¥140,500	Students who cook properly, or need a desk away from the bed
2DK	~¥175,200	Two students sharing, or one with a visiting partner
1LDK	~¥198,300	Couples, or graduate students who want a real living room
2LDK	~¥259,000	Couples with a child, or a family of three
3LDK	~¥328,700	Families, or faculty on a long posting

Source: Japanese rental market data for Setagaya Ward, retrieved 1 September 2026, on a basis of listings within a ten-minute walk of a station, excluding building management fees. A second Japanese portal that averages all current listings with no walk-time filter reports figures 20 to 30 percent lower across every layout, because it includes properties fifteen and twenty minutes out. Treat these as asking-rent averages for well-located stock rather than what you will pay.

That footnote is doing a lot of work, so we will expand it. A portal average is the average of what landlords are asking for properties currently advertised. It skews toward newer buildings, larger units and addresses close to the ticket gate, because those are what agents push hardest. It is not the average of what tenants sign.

Students in Setagaya routinely live well below it, and they do it the same three ways students everywhere in Tokyo do: walk further from the station, accept an older building, and take a unit that has been sitting.

The Two Stations That Save You ¥30,000

Here is where the geography turns into money. These are average 1K asking rents by station, all from the same dataset on the same basis, retrieved on the same day.

Station	Average 1K	Line	Relevance to TUJ
Sakura-shinmachi	~¥126,400	Den-en-toshi	Two stops from campus, and the priciest 1K in the set
Ikejiri-Ohashi	~¥123,200	Den-en-toshi	One stop toward Shibuya
Komazawa-daigaku	~¥121,700	Den-en-toshi	One stop out
Sangenjaya	~¥121,400	Den-en-toshi, Setagaya	The City Campus
Nishi-taishido	~¥116,000	Setagaya line	Roughly 300 m from Sangenjaya
Shimokitazawa	~¥114,100	Odakyu, Keio Inokashira	Popular, but off the TUJ line
Yoga	~¥114,000	Den-en-toshi	The Yoga Parkside dorm, and the midpoint
Setagaya	~¥104,500	Setagaya line	Four stops from Sangenjaya
Shoin-jinja-mae	~¥103,800	Setagaya line	Three stops
Kamimachi	~¥101,600	Setagaya line	Five stops
Kaminoge	~¥100,100	Tokyu Oimachi	Quiet, and one change to campus
Wakabayashi	~¥97,200	Setagaya line	Two stops
Futako-tamagawa	~¥93,700	Den-en-toshi, Oimachi	Between the campuses
Mizonokuchi	~¥92,500	Den-en-toshi, Oimachi, JR Nambu	The Hillside Center
Yamashita	~¥92,200	Setagaya line	Six stops, interchange with Odakyu

Same source and basis as the ward table above. Sample sizes are not published for any station, and a second Japanese portal ranks these stations differently, putting Ikejiri-Ohashi at the top rather than Sakura-shinmachi. Read the bands rather than the order.

Two things fall out of that table.

The first is the Setagaya line. It is a two-car tram that runs from Sangenjaya out to Shimotakaido, and it is almost invisible in English-language housing coverage. Wakabayashi is two stops from the campus and averages ¥97,200 against Sangenjaya's ¥121,400, a difference of about ¥24,000 a month for a journey of a few minutes. Ride it to Yamashita, six stops, and the average falls to ¥92,200. Do not take the individual stops too literally, because portals draw their catchments generously and Nishi-taishido is close enough to Sangenjaya to be the same market. The gradient itself is real and survives across both portals we checked.

The second is Futako-tamagawa, which looks wrong and is not. Its 1K average is below Sangenjaya's and below several tram stops, while its 2LDK average is among the highest in the set. Futako-tamagawa's premium is in family stock and tower apartments. Its single-person stock is ordinary and priced accordingly. For a student on the Den-en-toshi line who wants a short commute in both directions, that is a useful anomaly.

If you are choosing an address on this line and want to understand what living along it is actually like beyond the student question, our guide to the Den-en-toshi line for families in 2025 walks the line station by station.

Move-In Costs

Japanese leases front-load the cost, and this is where students who budgeted for rent get caught. Budget four to six months of rent to get through the door. On a ¥100,000 apartment near Yoga, an illustrative breakdown looks like this:

• First month's rent: ¥100,000
• Shikikin (敷金), a refundable security deposit, typically 1 month: ¥100,000
• Reikin (礼金), non-refundable key money paid to the landlord, typically 1 month: ¥100,000
• Agency brokerage fee, 1 month plus consumption tax: ¥110,000
• Guarantor company fee, commonly 50% of one month's rent up front: ¥50,000
• Fire insurance, 2 years: ¥20,000
• Lock and key replacement: ¥16,500

That is roughly ¥496,500, or about five months' rent, before you have bought a futon. Figures vary by building and agent, and a growing number of Setagaya landlords waive reikin to compete, which is the single largest saving available. Ask directly.

TUJ students on Reddit describe the initial payment as the real barrier, quoting one-off move-in costs of a thousand to two thousand US dollars even where the monthly rent was half what they had been paying in the dorm. And two costs get forgotten every time. Japanese rentals come unfurnished, meaning no light fittings, no curtains, no refrigerator, no washing machine and sometimes no cooker, none of which you needed in a dorm. And if your lease starts before your dorm stay ends, you pay both.

Renting Near Temple University Japan as an International Student

This is where the TUJ housing model shows its seam.

The university's rationale for the dorm requirement is that a newly arrived student cannot realistically sign a Japanese lease. That is largely true. What TUJ does not do, and says so in writing, is act as your guarantor. So in month five or month nine, with the requirement lapsing, you face the same market a new arrival faces, only with a residence card and a bank account.

Guarantor companies are where applications fail. They want stable income or a funding letter, a Japanese phone number, a residence card with enough validity left on it, and an emergency contact. For a student with no income, the funding letter and the sponsor's bank statement do the work.

There is one specific trap worth flagging because TUJ's own guidance runs into it. TUJ's housing FAQ tells students they may list the university as an institutional emergency contact with its main telephone number. In April 2026 a TUJ student reported on the TUJ subreddit that the agency handling their application refused that exact arrangement and required a personal contact. That is a claim by one student and not a rule, but it is worth having a backup in mind rather than discovering it at signing.

If you have never dealt with a Japanese guarantor company and want to know what they check and why applications get refused, our step-by-step guide to guarantor companies in Japan walks through the process. We handle this part for clients every week, including for students whose income is a scholarship letter rather than a payslip.

Then there is the plainer problem, which is that some landlords will not rent to foreign tenants at all. It is not universal and it is not always about nationality, but it is real enough that experienced agents phone the landlord before arranging a viewing rather than after.

On timing, students who have done it say the same thing: start early. The advice repeated on the TUJ subreddit is to have somewhere secured about three fifths of the way through the semester, because the good stock goes first. That is noticeably earlier than TUJ's own mid-semester housing fair, which is a gap worth planning around rather than complaining about.

Students renting in Japan face a set of rules that do not apply to salaried tenants, from income proof to what counts as a co-signer. Our breakdown of what students really pay in rent in Japan covers the numbers and the paperwork side by side.

Where to Live When You Are Split Between Two Campuses

The two-campus problem is new and there is no established wisdom about it yet. Here is how the geography actually works.

Yoga

The midpoint, and after the Hillside opening the most defensible address at TUJ. Fifteen minutes to the City Campus, seven to Mizonokuchi, average 1K around ¥114,000, and TUJ's own newest dorm is here so the neighborhood will fill with TUJ students whether you are in the dorm or not.

Yoga is quiet in a way that people either love or find dull. Japanese residents praise it for exactly that, plus unusually good and unusually cheap supermarkets, flat terrain, and Kinuta Park. The complaints are consistent too: express trains do not stop, the dining is chain-heavy and people leave for Futako-tamagawa or Shibuya to eat properly, the arterial roads bring noise, and streets get dark quickly away from the station.

Sangenjaya and the Setagaya Line

Right for anyone whose life is at the City Campus and who wants it loud. Sangenjaya has the food, the bars, the walk home from Shibuya and the highest rent in this guide outside Sakura-shinmachi.

The move that saves money is the tram. Wakabayashi, Shoin-jinja-mae, Setagaya, Kamimachi and Yamashita all sit on the Setagaya line within minutes of the campus and run ¥17,000 to ¥29,000 a month cheaper on a 1K. The catch is that the tram is slow, it stops running earlier than you would like, and going anywhere other than Sangenjaya or Shimotakaido means changing.

Futako-tamagawa and Kaminoge

The overlooked pair. Futako-tamagawa is one stop past Yoga, has a large station complex, a river park and a 1K average of about ¥93,700. Kaminoge, on the Oimachi line, is about ¥100,100 and genuinely residential. Both put you within twenty minutes of both campuses. Kaminoge costs you a change of train to reach Sangenjaya, which is the reason it is cheap.

Mizonokuchi and Takatsu Ward

If you are a freshman and Hillside is your whole timetable for a year, living in Kawasaki is the rational choice and roughly ¥20,000 a month cheaper than Setagaya on a 1K. Takatsu Ward averages about ¥81,900 for a 1R and ¥99,100 for a 1K.

Be honest with yourself about what you are buying. Mizonokuchi is a working hub with three lines, cheap food and a genuinely good retro drinking quarter behind the west exit. It is also the town Japanese reviewers describe as cluttered rather than dangerous, with narrow roads that lack pavement, illegal bicycle parking, touts outside the convenience shopping, and pachinko parlors that shape first impressions. The recurring theme in Japanese reviews is that the reputation is worse than the reality and that the complaints are about atmosphere rather than incidents. It is not a place people move to for prestige. It is a place people move to and then quietly like.

Supermarkets and Daily Shopping

Around Sangenjaya, the useful ones are Seiyu Sangenjaya at 4-24-8 Taishido, parts of which trade 24 hours, Sangenjaya Tokyu inside Carrot Tower, open from 7:00 to midnight on weekdays, and Ozeki Sangenjaya at 4-3-16 Taishido, a five-minute walk from the Den-en-toshi Setagaya-dori exit and a minute from the Setagaya line, which only opened in December 2024. Super Belx at 2-6-5 Taishido is five minutes out. Aeon Food Style Sangenjaya sits at 1-14-16 Taishido, which is the same block as the university, with its ground floor open around the clock.

Around Yoga the picture is better than Sangenjaya's and it is the thing Yoga residents brag about. Food Station Yoga is inside Setagaya Business Square, connected to the station, open from 7:00 to 23:00 on weekdays. OK Yoga Ekimae at 2-39-18 Yoga is a minute from the station, and OK Shin-Yoga at 4-21-1 is five minutes away with a 3,030 square meter floor, which is enormous by Tokyo standards. FUJI at 4-11-3 Yoga is two minutes out and open until 25:30, which is Japanese for half past one in the morning.

Two verified absences, because they come up. There is no Seijo Ishii and no Life at either Sangenjaya or Yoga. The nearest Seijo Ishii branches are at Komazawa-daigaku and Sakura-shinmachi.

Around Mizonokuchi, Tokyu Store is connected to the station and opens at 5:00, Maruetsu at 1-11-12 Mizoguchi is three minutes away and trades until 1:00, OK Mizonokuchi and Ito-Yokado are both about seven minutes, and there is a 24-hour Don Quijote three minutes from the gates.

Food and Local Character

Sangenjaya is the reason a lot of students want to be at the City Campus.

Echo Nakamise, the covered arcade running off the station, was founded in 1950 and is the oldest surviving arcade shotengai in Setagaya Ward. Its own directory lists 31 shops. The Sangenjaya Ginza association along Chazawa-dori, which markets itself as Sancha Sharenaado, incorporated in 1972 and closes its street to traffic on Sundays and public holidays from 13:00 to 17:00.

Then there is the Sankaku Chitai, the triangle of alleys wedged between Setagaya-dori and Route 246. It is not an official association and it does not appear on the ward's list of 122 registered shotengai. It is a dense block of tiny bars and counter restaurants that survived the postwar period, and it is what most people mean when they say they love Sangenjaya. Setagaya Ward currently has a redevelopment preparation association studying the site, so photograph it while it is there.

Yoga is the opposite and does not pretend otherwise. Japanese residents describe the dining as chain-dominated and say they go to Futako-tamagawa or Shibuya when they want something better. What Yoga has instead is space, quiet and groceries.

Parks and Green Space

Kinuta Park (砧公園) is the reason Yoga works as a place to live. It covers 391,777 square meters, opened on 1 April 1957 on land that had been a wartime air-defense green belt and then a golf course, and it is free and open at all hours. Inside it there are two baseball and athletics grounds, a small football pitch, a bird sanctuary, a suspension bridge, a plum grove, a 1.75 kilometer cycling course, and roughly 840 cherry trees through the Family Park section.

The park's own page gives it as a 20-minute walk from Yoga station. TUJ gives the Yoga Parkside dorm as eight minutes from the park, which is consistent, since the dorm sits between the two and the park's nearest boundary is much closer than its center.

The Setagaya Art Museum sits inside the park and opened in March 1986. If you are planning a year around it, note that the museum has announced a major renovation closure from April 2027 to January 2030.

Nearer the City Campus the green space is thinner, which is the honest position. Setagaya Park is walkable from Ikejiri-Ohashi, and the Meguro river is a stop away, but Sangenjaya itself is built up to the edges.

Safety and Disaster Risk

Crime

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department recorded 4,599 criminal offenses in Setagaya Ward in 2025, third highest of the 23 wards behind Shinjuku and Adachi. That number, read alone, is misleading in both directions.

Setagaya is the most populous ward in Tokyo, with 931,820 residents as of 1 August 2026 against second-placed Nerima's 750,559 at the start of the year. Divide the offense count by the population and Setagaya works out at roughly 5.0 offenses per 1,000 residents against a 23-ward average of about 7.6, which puts it among the three or four safest wards in Tokyo on a per-capita basis. Those two rates are our own calculation from the police figures and the residents' register, not a published statistic, and the police figures are provisional.

The ward figure also hides a real internal difference. In the same police dataset, the five chome of Taishido, which contain the campus and the station, recorded 222 offenses in 2025 against 15 across the two chome of Tamagawadai, where the Yoga dorm is. Per resident, Taishido runs at several times the ward rate. That is what a nightlife-and-station district looks like in the statistics: its daytime and nighttime population dwarfs its resident count, and offenses attach to the place rather than the people who sleep there.

Practically, this is the same advice everyone in Tokyo gets. The residential streets are fine. The station-front drinking quarter at two in the morning is where the trouble is, and Japanese reviewers of Sangenjaya raise night noise and route choice more than any other complaint.

Flood Risk, and the Dorm Nobody Checks

This is the section we would ask you to actually read, because the answer is not the one you would guess.

The City Campus at 1-14-29 Taishido sits outside every designated flood inundation area on the national hazard map, at the maximum assumed scale. So does the Hillside Center at 1-1-1 Kuji, which is on the hill its name refers to.

The Yoga Parkside dorm at 2-14-5 Tamagawadai is inside a designated area, but in the shallowest band, under 0.5 meters, which in practice means water in the street rather than water in the building.

The TUJ dorm in Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki, is the one that stands out. At the maximum assumed scale, the area around 399-1 Ichinotsubo falls in the 3 to 5 meter inundation band, with a modelled inundation duration of two weeks or more. Both Mizonokuchi stations sit in a 0.5 to 3 meter band, as does Musashi-Kosugi station.

None of that means anyone is in danger, and TUJ's buildings are multi-story reinforced concrete. It means the ground floor and the transport around it are exposed in a way the Setagaya sites are not, and this is not theoretical. During Typhoon Hagibis in October 2019, Kawasaki City recorded one death, in Mizoguchi 6-chome in Takatsu Ward, along with 1,258 buildings flooded above floor level citywide. Nakahara and Takatsu wards accounted for 81 percent of the city's damage certificate applications, and 8,830 people in Nakahara and 5,240 in Takatsu went to evacuation shelters. There was no levee breach. The water came back up through drainage sluices, and the Yokosuka line entrance at Musashi-Kosugi station flooded and was left silted.

Setagaya had its own version of that night. The ward recorded 372 buildings flooded above floor level and 42 below, which was roughly 46 percent of all above-floor flooding in the whole of Tokyo. The Tama River overtopped at 22:20 on 12 October at a section of Tamagawa in the ward's south where the embankment had never been completed, affecting about 0.7 hectares and around 40 houses. The gauge at Denenchofu recorded 10.77 meters, above the design high water level of 10.35 and well past the 1974 record of 9.07.

The reassuring part is that this was fixed rather than discussed. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ran an emergency flood countermeasures project on the Tama River from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2025, costing roughly ¥25.5 billion, which closed the 540 meter gap in the embankment at Futako-tamagawa. The work is complete and the riverside walkway partially reopened in April 2025.

The practical version for a student: neither campus is a flood risk, Yoga is a marginal one, and if you are assigned to Musashi Kosugi, know where the evacuation site is and do not store anything you care about at ground level. Check the hazard map for your own exact address rather than for the ward, because these designations change street by street.

Earthquake and Landslide Risk

Setagaya Ward has 104 designated landslide warning areas, of which 81 are special warning areas, as of April 2025. None of them are in Taishido or Tamagawadai. They follow the Kokubunji cliff line through Seijo, Okamoto, Kinuta, Seta, Todoroki and Noge, in the ward's south and west. The Hillside Center site carries no landslide designation either.

On earthquakes, the general Tokyo advice applies and there is nothing specific to this part of the city. Anything built to the 1981 standard or later performs well, dorm buildings here range from 1991 to 2026, and if you are renting privately, the building's construction year matters more than its address.

What Is Changing: Hillside, Growth, and 276 Beds

TUJ was founded in Tokyo in June 1982 and designated by Japan's Ministry of Education as a Foreign University, Japan Campus in February 2005, the earliest such designation on the ministry's list. For most of that history it was a modest institution.

It is not any more. In fall 2025 TUJ passed 3,500 degree-seeking students for the first time in its history, reaching 3,538, of whom 3,319 were undergraduates, up about 30 percent in a single year. Undergraduate enrollment was 940 in fall 2015 and 1,254 in fall 2020. It has roughly tripled since. Students come from about 90 countries and regions, with about 25 percent from Japan, 47 percent from the United States and the rest from elsewhere.

That growth is what produced everything in this guide. A 184-bed residence completed in March 2026. A second campus bought in February 2026 and opened six months later for 800 to 1,000 students. A Kyoto site that opened in January 2025 and has since expanded to more than 300 student residences.

What it has not produced is dorm capacity that scales with enrollment. TUJ operates 276 beds itself against 3,319 undergraduates. Every student on a new TUJ-sponsored visa needs two semesters in one. The mathematics only works because most students are not new in any given semester, and it is tight enough that the university tells you plainly your preference is not guaranteed.

If you are planning several years at TUJ, plan on the assumption that the dorm is a one-time arrangement and that the second-year search is yours.

Pros and Cons of Studying and Living at Temple University Japan

The upside is real. Both campuses sit on one train line, so no TUJ address is ever complicated. Sangenjaya is one of the best-fed neighborhoods in Tokyo and five minutes from Shibuya. Setagaya is quiet, green and statistically among the safest wards in the city. The dorm requirement, whatever it costs, removes the hardest month of a move abroad. And the ward has a large enough foreign population, 31,796 residents as of August 2026, that landlords here are more used to non-Japanese tenants than in much of the city.

The downside is equally real. You have no housing choice for a year and the dorms cost more per month than the apartments around them. Three of the four dorms are in Kanagawa, 45 to 70 minutes from the City Campus. The Den-en-toshi line is crowded at rush hour and there is no realistic alternative line if it stops. Setagaya rent buys less floor space than almost anywhere comparable. And first-year students now commute to a different prefecture from most of their university.

Who Should Live Near the City Campus

Second-year and later undergraduates whose entire timetable is at Taishido. Graduate students in the College of Education, the Law School or the Master in Management program, all of which teach at the City Campus. Anyone over 20 on arrival who successfully petitions out of the dorm requirement and wants to walk to class. Anyone whose social life is the point of being in Tokyo, because Sangenjaya delivers that better than any address in this guide.

Who May Not Like It

First-semester visa students, who do not get a vote. Freshmen and Bridge Program students from fall 2026 onward, who should look at Yoga or Mizonokuchi rather than Sangenjaya. Anyone who needs quiet to work, because the streets near the station are noisy late and the drinking quarters run long. Anyone who wants floor space, since Setagaya prices it steeply. And anyone hoping for central Tokyo. Sangenjaya is fifteen minutes from Shibuya and it feels like a neighborhood, not a city center. Most people count that as the point.

Yoga vs Sangenjaya vs Mizonokuchi vs Staying in the Dorm

Option	To City Campus	To Hillside	Average 1K	Character	Best For
Sangenjaya	Walk	About 10 min	~¥121,400	Loud, dense, excellent food	Upper-year students who want the social life
Yoga	About 15 min	About 7 min	~¥114,000	Quiet, green, family residential	Anyone splitting time between campuses
Mizonokuchi	About 10 min	Short	~¥92,500	Working hub, cheap, unpolished	First-year students, and tight budgets
Yoga Parkside dorm	About 24 min	About 31 min	~¥158,000 equivalent	Furnished, supervised, no guests	First and second semesters, by requirement

Dorm figure is our own monthly conversion of TUJ's published ¥600,000 semester fee and includes utilities, internet and furnishings, so it is not directly comparable to the rent column.

Read across that table and the conclusion writes itself. Yoga costs about ¥7,000 a month less than Sangenjaya, is nearer to Hillside, and has better supermarkets. Sangenjaya is worth its premium only if you will use what the premium buys, which is the food and the nightlife. Mizonokuchi is roughly ¥29,000 a month cheaper than Sangenjaya, which over a two-year degree is about ¥700,000, and it is a perfectly liveable town that Japanese residents describe as underrated rather than rough.

Practical Advice From E-Housing

Five things we tell TUJ students and their parents, in the order they matter.

Check the waiver criteria before you accept the dorm as inevitable. If you turn 20 before you arrive in Japan, you meet one of the criteria on the university's own list, and the Housing Plan deadline is June 10 for a fall start. A petition costs you an afternoon. Two semesters at Yoga Parkside cost ¥1,200,000.

Start the second-year search around the middle of your second semester, not the end. That is what students who have done it say, and it is earlier than the university's own housing sessions. The Japanese rental market for a spring move fills between January and March.

Decide which campus you are commuting to before you pick a station. This is new advice as of 2026 and most people have not caught up. A freshman living in Sangenjaya to be near the university, and then commuting to Kawasaki daily, has made an expensive mistake in the wrong direction.

Do not sign a guarantor arrangement you do not understand. Most students will go through a commercial guarantor company, pay roughly half a month's rent for the privilege, and pass a screening built for salaried tenants. A scholarship letter or a sponsor's bank statement usually satisfies it. Savings alone sometimes do not, and the emergency contact requirement catches people out.

Ask about reikin. Setagaya landlords increasingly waive it to compete for tenants, and it is a full month of rent. It is the single biggest saving available on a move-in and nobody will offer it unprompted.

At E-Housing, we work with foreigners, expat families, international students and working professionals across greater Tokyo every day. We know the Den-en-toshi and Setagaya lines well, we deal with guarantor screening for students without payslips as routine work, and we can arrange video viewings for people who are still overseas. If you are working out your second year at TUJ, or helping someone else work out theirs, we are happy to talk it through before you are on a deadline.

Final Verdict: Where Should a TUJ Student Live?

For your first two semesters the honest answer is that TUJ decides, and unless you qualify for a waiver, the useful energy goes into which dorm you request rather than whether to be in one. Ask for Yoga Parkside if the commute matters and you can absorb ¥600,000 a semester. Ask for Nogawadai if the money matters more than the bus.

After that, the answer has changed and most guides have not noticed. Before August 2026 the advice was simple: live near Sangenjaya. Now TUJ teaches in two prefectures, first-year courses sit in Kawasaki, and the address that works for one campus is mediocre for the other.

Yoga is the answer that survives that change. It is cheaper than Sangenjaya, fifteen minutes from one campus and seven from the other, it has the best everyday shopping of any station in this guide, and it has a 390,000 square meter park at the end of the street. It is also dull, and if you came to Tokyo at nineteen for something other than dull, Sangenjaya is worth the extra ¥7,000 a month and you should take it.

The thing worth carrying away is that the dorm number and the rent number are not comparing like with like, and once you adjust for utilities and furniture the dorms are still the most expensive housing most TUJ students will occupy in Japan. That is not a scandal. It is just a fact that the university does not advertise, and the students who understand it in their first month spend the next three years better off than the ones who work it out in their second year.

FAQ: Temple University Japan Dorms and Housing

Does Temple University Japan have dorms?

Yes. TUJ uses four residences in the greater Tokyo area: Yoga Parkside Residence in Setagaya, Uninest Kamikita House in Suginami, and the Tokyo Student-House Musashi Kosugi and Nogawadai Dorm, both in Kawasaki. All are co-ed, non-smoking and alcohol-free.

Are TUJ dorms mandatory?

Yes, for anyone arriving on a new student visa sponsored by TUJ. Fall and spring starts must stay two consecutive semesters, summer starts one. Students switching an existing visa to TUJ sponsorship are exempt, and waivers are available for students who are 20 or older on arrival, married, living with family in Japan, or who have lived in Japan more than six months on a non-tourist visa within the past two years.

How much do Temple University Japan dorms cost?

Per semester, ¥470,000 at Nogawadai, ¥500,000 at Musashi Kosugi and Kamikita House, and ¥600,000 at Yoga Parkside Residence, all inclusive of utilities, internet and furnishings. Two semesters at Yoga Parkside comes to ¥1,200,000.

Is it cheaper to rent an apartment than live in a TUJ dorm?

Yes, in almost every case. Converted to a monthly figure, Yoga Parkside works out around ¥158,000 against an average 1K of about ¥114,000 at the same station, and the other dorms show a similar gap against their local markets. The dorm rate includes utilities and furniture, so the real difference is smaller than it first looks, but it does not close.

Where is Temple University Japan?

The City Campus is at 1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, near Sangenjaya station. Since August 2026 TUJ also operates the Hillside Center at 1-1-1 Kuji, Takatsu Ward, Kawasaki, near Mizonokuchi station, and a separate site in Kyoto.

What is the nearest station to Temple University Japan?

Sangenjaya, on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi line and the Tokyu Setagaya line, for the City Campus. Mizonokuchi and Musashi-Mizonokuchi for the Hillside Center, with Tsudayama marginally closer but far less useful. Kuji station shares the Hillside address but is roughly two kilometers away.

What is the TUJ Hillside Center?

An eight-story, roughly 7,000 square meter campus in Kawasaki that TUJ bought in February 2026 and opened at the end of August 2026. It has 23 classrooms and a 300-seat auditorium, and teaches first-year courses, the Bridge Program and general education. TUJ expected 800 to 1,000 students there in fall 2026.

Which TUJ dorm has the shortest commute?

Yoga Parkside Residence, at about 24 minutes to the City Campus and 31 to Hillside. Kamikita House is about 45 minutes to the City Campus but 65 to 70 to Hillside, so the best answer depends on which campus your timetable is at.

How much is rent near Temple University Japan?

Around Sangenjaya, an average 1K asks about ¥121,400 a month. Yoga runs about ¥114,000 and Mizonokuchi about ¥92,500. Setagaya Ward as a whole averages roughly ¥108,200 for a 1R and ¥259,000 for a 2LDK.

Can international students rent an apartment in Tokyo without a guarantor?

Not usually. Most will use a commercial guarantor company, which typically charges around half a month's rent up front and screens for income or funding, a Japanese phone number, a valid residence card and an emergency contact. TUJ states in writing that it does not act as a guarantor for student housing.

Is Setagaya Ward safe?

Yes, by Tokyo standards, which are high. Setagaya recorded 4,599 offenses in 2025, third highest of the 23 wards by count, but it is also the most populous ward, and per resident that works out among the lowest rates in the city. The offenses concentrate around the station and nightlife blocks rather than the residential streets.

Is Setagaya at risk of flooding?

Parts of it. The Tama River overtopped in Setagaya during Typhoon Hagibis in October 2019 and the ward accounted for roughly 46 percent of all above-floor flooding in Tokyo that night, but the gap in the embankment that caused it has since been closed. The TUJ City Campus sits outside every designated flood zone and the Yoga dorm is in the shallowest band, under 0.5 meters.

When should I start looking for an apartment near TUJ?

Around the middle of your second semester in the dorm. Students who have done it say to have somewhere secured roughly three fifths of the way through the semester, which is earlier than the university's own housing information sessions.

How much does Temple University Japan cost per year?

Full-time tuition at 12 to 18 credits is ¥910,000 per semester. New matriculating undergraduates also pay a one-time ¥434,100 matriculation fee, a ¥20,000 enrollment deposit, a ¥36,600 orientation fee and, if TUJ sponsors the visa, ¥20,900 for the visa application.

Do I need a bicycle to live near TUJ?

It helps around Yoga and Futako-tamagawa, where the land is flat and the distances are walkable but tedious. Around Mizonokuchi, residents say an electric bicycle is close to necessary once you move away from the station, because the ground rises quickly. In Sangenjaya you can walk everywhere and parking a bicycle is its own problem.

Is Temple University Japan a good school for international students?

That is outside what a housing guide can answer, but the relevant fact for a housing decision is scale. TUJ had 3,538 degree-seeking students in fall 2025 from about 90 countries, roughly a quarter of them from Japan, and it has been designated by Japan's Ministry of Education as a Foreign University, Japan Campus since 2005. It is a large, established institution rather than a satellite program, and it is growing fast enough that its facilities are visibly catching up.