Housing

Educational dormitories where a diverse range of students live and study together on campus

ICU dormitories are a place where students foster respect for human rights and diversity and learn to share responsibilities and duties through dialogue in a communal living. All dormitories are located on campus, set in natural surroundings where students can enjoy the changing seasons. They are conveniently located near facilities such as the University Hall, the Dining Hall and the Library.

Features of Dormitories

  • 1 Environment to Acquire AbilitiesRequired in the Global Community

    The dormitories are where students of different backgrounds, ages, personalities, mindsets, language, culture and religion live together. At times there may be disagreements, but the experiences of debating late into the night, accepting each other's differences, and cooperating to resolve issues promote students'personal growth significantly. By the time they graduate and leave the dormitories, students will be equipped with a range of abilities essential for success in global society. These include an understanding of diversity, communication skills, leadership and management ability, advanced cooperativeness and problem-solving skills.

  • 2 Opportunities toMake Friends for Life

    The four years of communal living of Japanese and international students with diverse values are filled with new encounters and friendships. You will meet senior students who can teach you much about campus life as well as private life, and friends with whom you will sit up late to work on assignments or prepare for exams, discuss your worries and share your joys and sorrows. These friends will become your second family. The relationships that you build during your time in the dormitory will last a lifetime.

  • 3 Students Playing a Key Rolein Dorm Operation

    The number of students in each dormitory, or on each dormitory floor, is limited to 30 to 40. This is the number of residents which both students and faculty and staff members believe to be optimal for a student-run dormitory, based on their past experiences. All first to fourth year students live together and hold a dormitory meeting once a month in principle. At dormitory meetings, students allocate everyone a certain duty, such as cleaning, which is essential for communal life. They also discuss various things such as dormitory events and issues of dormitory operation. Students thus form an autonomous cooperative community that effectively manages the dormitories.
    The rules of the dormitories are not set by the university in a unilateral way. They are determined through talks between the student and university sides after a through discussion among dorm residents. This process is a feature unique to ICU, which places importance on dialogue.

  • 4 Just 3 Minutes' Walkto the Library and Class Rooms

    All our dormitories are located on the campus. A university with one-out-of-three students living in dormitories on campus is not very common with universities located in central Tokyo, all the more so with those in the suburbs. We believe that living on campus is the ideal way to enjoy a fulfilling university life, learning together with friends and faculty members. Dormitory life makes it possible to utilize university facilities such as class rooms and the Library to the full.

  • 5 Highly SatisfyingDormitory Life

    In most cases, students who moves in a dormitory enjoy a fulfilling life there until graduation, without moving to other accommodations. Students who enroll in exchange programs overseas may come back to the same dormitory once their program is completed.

    Each dormitory holds alumni reunions on a regular basis with many former residents attending. This shows just how fulfilling students have found their time living in the dormitories.

ICU Housing

Global House
Zelkova House
Ginkgo House
Oak House
Third Women's House
Fourth Women's House
Canada House
Maple House

Off-campus Housing

ICU Service Co., Ltd. is responsible for providing ICU students with information and consultation regarding off-campus housing such as general apartments, student apartment houses and an off-campus student dormitory. The company cooperates with reliable real estate agents to provide students with safe off-campus accommodations at favorable terms.

Please contact ICU Service for more details about off-campus accommodations.

ICU Service Co., Ltd.

Homestay

Living with a Japanese family enables students to be immersed in Japanese life and practice Japanese. However, homestay is not very common in Japan, and the number of host families is limited. ICU commissions the arrangement of homestay to Nextage Co., Ltd. Nextage introduces host families to students who are interested in homestay. If you wish to look for a host family in Tokyo, please contact Nextage directly.

Nextage Co. Ltd. Homestay in JAPAN
5F., Toho Centre Bldg., 4-6 Kandasakuma-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0025 Japan
Phone: +81(0)3-3866-0139
E-mail: icu@homestay-in-japan.com

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