Taichung Japanese School

The Taichung Japanese School is located at No. 33 Pinghe South Road, Xiushan Village, Daya District, Taichung City 428, Taiwan. The campus sits in a residential area in western Taichung, near landmarks such as National Experimental High School at Central Taiwan Science Park and Taichung Metropolitan Park. It is the only Japanese international school in the Taichung area.

The school operates a nine-year program that combines elementary and lower secondary education, covering grades 1 through 9.

The school is a Japanese international school serving international families in Taiwan. It is a mixed-gender, full-time program for students from elementary through junior high.

Public sources describe instruction delivered by teachers dispatched from Japan with emphasis on language, culture, and character development; there is no publicly listed information about formal SEN facilities or supports.

The school is affiliated with the Japanese expatriate community in Taiwan and operates as a Japanese international school under the Taiwan Japanese Association's Japanese School Committee.

Daily hours are not publicly published in available sources. The school serves elementary through junior high, following the Japanese curriculum.

Public transit options exist in the area; maps indicate a nearby Japanese School Bus stop about 170 meters southeast of the campus, suggesting a local bus connection for students.

Application / Admission fees
- Application / entrance fee: TWD 10,000 (one-off at time of initial admission).

Tuition fees (by year group and frequency)
- Regular tuition: TWD 6,000 per month (charged on the school's regular collection cycle). This is the base instructional tuition reported for the school.

Optional / ancillary school charges
- School bus (for users of the school bus): TWD 2,500 per month.
- PTA fee: TWD 480 per year.
- Textbook and materials costs: textbooks and related materials are charged separately and tend to increase with higher grades; specific amounts are set per term/grade.
- School-sold supplies: there is a published list of required school supplies available from the school (items are typically purchased by parents and some are available through the school).

Billing schedule and payment terms
- Tuition and school-bus charges are collected on a multi-month cycle; published guidance for the school indicates tuition and bus charges are collected every two months (bi-monthly collection). Payments for other items (PTA, materials, one-off admission fees) follow the school's invoicing schedule.

Boarding fees
- The Taichung Japanese School operates as a day school and does not publish boarding fees; no boarding program or per-semester boarding charges are listed.

Other costs or fees
- Application-related test or re-application fees: specific testing fees are not publicly itemized in the accessible materials for Taichung Japanese School; the school's admissions documents and school-supplies lists indicate there are separate one‑time admission items and ongoing materials costs.
- Uniforms / PE clothing: the school publishes required school-item lists for elementary and middle divisions; uniform/PE items are included among required purchases. Exact prices for uniforms are not itemized in the publicly listed summary documents.

Refund information
- No publicly posted refundable entrance deposit or explicit refund schedule for tuition is listed in the accessible summary materials for the Taichung Japanese School. The school's admissions and school‑handbook documents are the place where refund terms would normally be set; those documents are referenced in the school's document list.

Fee payment options
- The school's publicly accessible page and document list do not itemize accepted payment methods (for example: credit card, local bank transfer, international bank transfer). Parents are expected to follow the school's invoicing and payment instructions as issued on enrollment materials and invoices.

Administrative / practical notes
- School type and contact: Taichung Japanese School is a Japanese day school located in Taichung (Daya); the school provides admissions and enrollment documents (admissions guide, school supply lists and bus application forms) in its document section. The school contact email listed for admissions inquiries is tjs97@ms18.hinet.net.

Summary of source availability and limits
- The fee figures above (entrance fee, monthly tuition, bus fee, PTA fee, and bi-monthly collection cadence) are taken from published community and information summaries about Japanese schools in Taiwan. Key official school documents (admissions guide and itemized fee schedules) are listed in the school's document section, but the detailed PDF documents and some downloadable pages were not retrievable in full through the publicly indexed view used for this summary; where direct itemized charges were available in public summaries they are cited above.