Hi everyone! I'm a 24F that's moving to Tokyo this September for Grad School, and I'm having some trouble looking for accommodations. Since I got the confirmation from Waseda, I've been looking at the student housing they provide, and tbh I'm not sold on them. For context, I'm a MEXT scholarship student with a stipend of 145,000 yen per month and that's all the money I will be living off on for the next 2 years. The cheapest dorm they have is the WISH dorm, an international dorm around 30 mins from campus. It sounds great, but then I checked the digital tour and they have this giant window in each unit that shows your living room to everyone in the hallway. I am very much not comfortable with this so I've been looking for other options, but all the other ones that the University provides either have too high a rent or too high hidden fees. Plus, they don't seem to be very foreigner friendly. I've lived in Japan for a year before, so I know how isolating and depressing it could be so I'm also looking for a dorm that has a lot of international students so I could have an easier time socially lol. Does anybody have any dorm recs or even areas I should look into? Thanks!
by luneluupe