Seven Seas International School

Location

• Tokyo Main Campus: Tokyo Tobari Building 1F, 1-17-6 Hamamatsucho, Minato City, Tokyo

Ages

New students: preschool-age children aged 2 or older. Transfer students: preschool-age children aged 3.5 or older (there are also places for transfers from local schools overseas and similar). Children aged 1.5 to 5 can take the entrance exam.

Curriculum

A school for preschool-age children who spend the day in English. With the school's own "gifted curriculum", children learn English, math, social studies, science, arts and crafts, music, and park and concentration lessons across subjects by theme. Classes are mixed-age by level: beginner (A1), intermediate (A2) and advanced (B); from intermediate, elementary school content begins in English. From age 4, everyone learns the violin. The school is English-only; Japanese is limited to times such as illness or trouble. The official website says it is an IB PYP candidate school aiming for IB World School authorization. Class hours are 9:00–14:30. After school, there is a Make Up Class designed after an individual meeting, an After School Club where you choose until 16:00 or 18:00 by the day, and Day Care that can be booked in 30-minute units from 1 day (fees differ slightly between advance and same-day notice).

Annual tuition

The only line in the official admissions guidelines is "annual tuition: from ¥2,250,000"; the amount by age, school year and whether tax is included are not stated. Besides tuition, it says "other fees are charged separately", but the amounts are not on the official website. It is also not stated whether it is covered by free early childhood education and care.

Fees at entry

Entry fee ¥200,000 (it says this varies by age at entry).

Japanese lessons

After school, there are Japanese lessons for private elementary school entrance exams.