Toyo University Hakusan Campus — Attraction in Tokyo

Studying at Toyo Hakusan campus has been the worst learning experience I have had to date. I attend Toyo on a 6 month student exchange continuing my Urban and Regional Planning degree. First off the exchange program required me to take a basic Japanese course (Nest 1) using one of my elective units. This class has a total of 3 different teachers with different teaching styles taking the class weekly so I was unable to create a teacher/student rapport. The speed of which the teachers speak and the class moves ahead is too fast to retain any information, and the homework which is handed out is written in a way that is very confusing. Moving on to the classes more closely related to my degree, I choose Evolving frameworks for Resolving International Conflicts, Disaster Management, Urban and Regional Planning in Asia, and my Personal favorite Soccer class ha ha. These classes were interesting enough However I found the assignements to easy which made the classes somewhat boring. I spent more time working on the Nest 1 class (Elective) then the core classes related to my degree. I will give postive notes towards the Soccer class and the Toyo stadium, I had zero soccer experience before coming to Japan but got significantly better with each class. The so called "world famous" cafeteria 6 is overated in my personal opinion but I'm sure this critique will be subjective to personal opinion. Overall in terms of my education I felt that exchange at Toyo has set me back and I have lost momentum...

the 2 stars are for the cleanliness and facilities provided in the university. If you are a foreign student who are fluent in english, but not very much in japanese, this university is not for you. especially in international communication course, there are some mandatory classes which are extremely difficult to follow for those who are not fluent in reading kanji. be careful of which class you decide to take, for some english classes may be too easy for those who are fluent in english, or japanese classes that are way too difficult to catch up. this is obviously how it's supposed to be, since most of the courses here are designated for japanese students and not foreigners. kinda a...

Universitas swasta yang berada di Tokyo, selain di tempat ini ada lagi di tempat lainnya. Selama beberapa hari, kami mengikuti acara international workshop. Ruangan meeting cukup besar, dan untuk paralel session, ditempatkan di ruang-ruang kelas yang tidak jauh dari ruang pertemuan utama. Gedungnya cukup bersih, dan ruang meeting utama dilengkapi dengan peralatan yang cukup lengkap, sehingga untuk yang duduk di belakang dapat melihat materi yang sedang disajikan. Untuk mencapai kampus ini, harus berjalan kaki dulu dari statsiun terdekat. Namun untuk menggunakan bis, tinggal menunggu di halte bis di depan kampus, meski bus biasanya bukan pilihan utama untuk transportasi. Toilet kampus cukup bersih, dan dilengkapi dengan perlaatan yang lengkap, termasuk tombol emergency. Namun tombol2 ini dapat membingungkan bagi orang asing, sehingga bisa saja salah pencet tombol, misalnya pencet tombol alarm/emergency call. Bagusnya kala itu, pernah ada kejadian, terdengar bunyi alarm, sehingga petugas dengan gesit berdatangan ke lokasi... Ketika makan siang, semua peralatan makan dibawa masing-masing ke tempat pencucian, dan secara otomatis langsung dicuci dengan mesin yang diawasi seorang...