CLASSES & CAMPS

Always one of our most popular course offerings – Japanese cooking classes. Join a Best Living  Japanese cooking lesson to learn traditional Japanese home-style cooking.  You will also learn what is sold at a local supermarket, and how to select and buy the best ingredients for family cooking. After attending a …

Best Living Japan offers weekly Kintsugi Classes in central Tokyo (Minami Azabu). Join one of our Kintsugi classes to learn how to make broken into reborn master pieces. In each class you will learn the basics of kintsugi and how to make simple repairs. You will cherish the piece you …

Join us for a Tokyo Japanese Decorative Fisherman Baskets Class this 2020 Fall/Winter. Learn a new art & craft that you can enjoy as a new skill. All classes are held at the Best Living Japan Studio located at  @ 3-17-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Best Living Japan offers cooking, …

Join us for a Tokyo Japanese Indigo Dyeing Classes this 2020 Fall/Winter. Learn a new art & craft that you can enjoy as a new skill. All classes are held at the Best Living Japan Studio located at  @ 3-17-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Best Living Japan offers cooking, lifestyle, …

Best Living Japan offers Cookie Decorating Classes in central Tokyo. All Cookie Decorating Classes are between 4,000 and 5,000 JPY + 10% JP Consumption tax and are held at the Best Living Japan Studio located at  @ 3-17-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo.  Click here for discount voucher information. 2020 Winter Cookie …

The Best Living Japan Studio rental is perfect for cooking, crafting or seminars.  We spent a lot of time designing the studio space of our dreams and are delighted to share it. The studio is a fully equipped professional kitchen which can be used as a crafting and seminar space …

Are you a beginner Japanese learner or know someone who is? Well, here is a list of 5 great apps for beginner Japanese learners curated by BestLivingJapan. When I started learning Japanese over 25 years ago, it was paper and pen, and my Sony Walkman with cassette. Now we all …

Best Living Japan is offering a safe and motivational space for remote study support for elementary students in Tokyo for the fall of 2020 (now  – Dec 11, 2020). Best Living Japan is located in Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo. If your child is in grades 2nd – 5th and attending …

Best Living Japan Tokyo Kids Classes – We offer a variety of classes and programs for kids from 1st grade and up. Art, drama, and cooking! All classes are conducted in English and held at the Best Living Japan Studio located at  @ 3-17-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo. We also offer …

Best Living Japan is offering kids’ extracurricular – Tokyo Coding classes almost every Wednesday afternoons from 16:30-18:00 (drop off 16:15) in Autumn 2020. Your kids can enjoy 1.5 hours of Scratch Coding in a socially distanced safe space. Coding is being taught by our partner Coding Lab. The maximum class …

Best Living Japan is offering kids’ extracurricular – Tokyo Arts and Crafts almost every Monday  afternoon from 16:00-17:30 in Autumn 2020. Your kids can enjoy 1.5 hours of creative fun in a socially distanced safe space. The maximum class size is 10 kids in grades 1st – 5th.  Sign-up for one class …

Best Living Japan is offering kids’ extracurricular – Tokyo Speech & Drama classes almost every Tuesday afternoon from 16:00-17:30 in Autumn 2020 (doors open from 15:45). Your kids can enjoy 1.5 hours of creative fun in a socially distanced safe space. Speech & Drama is being taught by our partner …

Best Living Japan is offering kids’ extracurricular – Tokyo STEM Classes almost every Monday afternoon from 16:30-18:00 in Autumn 2020. Your kids can enjoy 1.5 hours of STEM in a socially distanced safe space. STEM is being taught by our partner Coding Lab.  Sign-up for one class for 5000 yen, …

Join us for a Tokyo Japanese Art & Crafts Class this 2020 Fall/Winter. Learn a new art & craft that you can enjoy as a new skill. All classes are held at the Best Living Japan Studio located at  @ 3-17-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Best Living Japan offers cooking, …

Summer has arrived, and if you are staying in Japan with the kids, you will be happy to know some 2020 Japan summer programs are running to keep your kids engaged and provide you with a break! Step by step, we are getting back to life post COVID. From ocean …

Join the TELL Lifeline phone counselor training program to challenge yourself and help others. TELL Phone Counselor Training Program with both an online version and new flexible in-classroom schedule held twice a year in the Fall and Spring in both Tokyo & Kansai. Details on how to apply for the …

The Best Living Japan Tokyo Jump-Start Orientation is perfect for you if your family is new to Tokyo. Are you feeling a bit overwhelmed with everything new and need info? Do you want to meet some new friends? If you answered yes to any of the questions, then the Tokyo Jump-Start …

Here are our Top Recommended 2020 Ski / Snowboard Day Trips from Tokyo. Great for families, offers lessons for kids and easily accessible. We will be adding more in the coming weeks. Do you have one to add? Please let us know in the comments section below. * Please check …

Join us to make and take some beautiful washi eggs and basket that you will cherish for years. All classes are at the Best Living Japan Studio in Minami Azabu, Minato-ku. FRI. April 10 9:00-12:00 Washi Egg Class –  A fun and creative way to display the large selections of …

If you love to ski, and you want your kids to be great skiers, then Junior Ski Camp is the best kids weekend ski camp I can recommend. Junior Ski Camp is located in the wonderful ski area of Shiga Kogen in Nagano. My three boys  attended the kids weekend ski …

TELL (Tokyo English Life Line) provides TELL  Exceptional Parenting Program (EPP) workshop series each school year which support global parents on a wide-range of topics. Here is the line-up of parenting seminars for the 2019 – 2020 Tokyo School Year. I highly recommend to attend if you are raising kids …

We have gathered some of the top Tokyo International Schools’ Calendars for Winter 2020 (January to July 2020) in an attempt to help simplify planning. We often hear from other parents and organizers of community events that all the international schools’ schedules being different causes may headaches. Hoping readers find …

GALA Yuzawa Snow Resort is one of the most convenient snow resorts to visit with little ones outside Tokyo. It`s a 75-min shinkansen ride (Max-Tanigawa or the Tanigawa) from Tokyo station and the train drops you off right inside the base of the GALA Yuzawa Resort making it ultra convenient if traveling with small …

Guide to Navigating the Japanese Hoikuen System If you are planning to return to work after taking some time off to bond with your little one, you are more than likely weighting the daycare (保育/ほいく/hoiku) options available in Japan. You’re perhaps also well aware of the daycare shortage the nation …

Best Living Japan is excited to tie-up with Japanese cooking teacher, Ms. Yuki Suzuki, to offer Survival Japanese Home Cooking Classes this autumn.  Classes will begin on Thursday, September 21st and run through December 7th, but don’t worry you don’t need to commit to 10 weeks of classes. We know you are busy so …