As a returning visitor I want to thank you for your interest.Thanks for visiting!
I had the pleasure to stay at Yamasa’s Student village for 4 weeks. I was in a shared room. What a stupid idea I had. It is not that bad, but if you intend of staying for more than a year, you should at least choose to stay in a single room. The rooms are ok and very practical, but if you choose a shared room be sure to ask to be in the lower bunk, as you will have more personal space. Also it seems that they will put you on purpose with a Chinese speaker. It is ok if you want to practise your Japanese but, if like me, you don’t speak a word of Japanese when you first arrive, it could be a problem. I was lucky enough to have a great roommate. The Yamasa’s Student village is not ageing very well, the fault goes to the student. The kitchen is the worst aspect of living in the student village. Most students don’t cook. I stopped cooking as well the last week I was there. Why? The kitchens are filthy, again because of the students! Students from Asian countries tends to cook more ( good! they cook really tasty stuff ), even if the caretaker clean once a month, the next day the place is dirty again. In the kitchen used by the English speakers, well, they just don’t clean after they use the place. This situation just discourages anybody from cleaning anything because they know it will get dirty again in a minute. The walls are stained with grease, the cooking instruments are rusted and there is a lot of expired food in the fridge. Again it is the fault of the students. So if you want to stay in the village, buy you own cooking stuff, make your rice in the afternoon or late in the evening because there is not enough rice cookers for everybody to use at the same time.
But, you will make friends from everywhere in the world. I had a good time in the Yamasa’s Student Village, I could have stayed there for a while, but my roommate snored and I want to cook without being sick.
However, there is a shortage of single accommodation right now at Yamasa, so be sure to apply early! I was lucky enough to move from the village, but I am sure it wont happens often.
Wow. I almost selected the Student Village as my residence when I came, but hearing what you have to say, and what another who’s stayed there has said too, I’m sure glad that I didn’t!
arghh…. my first preference in the application form was a shared room in the student village.
:-O
but who knows, maybe it ‘ll be fine in the end.
“if you choose a shared room be sure to ask to be in the lower bunk, as you will have more personal space”
hm yeah …maybe i should do that. ^^
thx
so if i’m going to get in a room with some chinese dude, it may helps to train my mandarin a little.
“ni hao” will do for the start.