Overview
Mount Fuji is the perfect analogy for modern Japan: neat and symmetrical, beautiful, but with a fiery heart raging under the surface. Walking around the sanitized streets and grand shopping centers, you’re never far from a sight that will get your heart racing – whether it’s the magnificent imperial palace or a man in a green dress casually shopping for food.
Getting around is easy, as Subways criss-cross the cities and the famous bullet trains speed through the countryside at up to 300km/h. Wherever your destination, expect to get there in a comfortable and efficient style that’s unique to this enigmatic country.
- Japan has a fascinating culture that’s an enigmatic mix between the modern and the traditional
- The people are friendly and polite, so you can be confident that your students will be to
- Tokyo – the capital is a fascinating, vibrant, crazy mass of a city
- Yakushima – an beautiful island with lush, snow-capped mountains and wonderful hot springs
- Hiroshima – underneath this exciting city lies a heart broken by tragedy
Things you might not know about Teaching English in Japan
- There are around 200 volcanoes in Japan, and 1500 (mostly small!) earthquakes each year
- It has over 3,000 islands and almost 30,000km of coastline
- Tokyo-Yokohama is the world’s largest urban area, with a staggering population of over 33 million people
- Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo is the largest fish market in the world, handling over 2000 tons of seafood per day
