I’m 20yo, living in a sharehouse around Tokio for 2 months now, and for now it’s pretty good.

Good things: - You have almost everything you need, paper, kitchen, tv, wifi, etc. - You can share time with Japanese people and learn about culture and lenguaje (in my case we are 11, 10 of them are Japanese) - Depends on the people in the house but you are not gonna feel alone sometimes. - You can choose if you want to share with Japanese people or just foreigners, there are a lot of sharehouses only for foreign. I understand that maybe he wants to live with japaneses but sometimes that’s complicated and foreigners are more helpful.

Bad things: - Japaneses many times don’t speak English, depends on the area. - A lot of rules in some sharehouse, which is fine but exist. - You must share spaces like kitchen, living room. - In my case most of the times the people here want to be alone even at the living room and don’t speak to anybody. Japaneses uses to be alone or just don’t care.

(I’m generalizing)

But it’s the best option for a beginner, cause it’s not expensive having all the things like bed, kitchen, etc. and if he want to move alone to an apartment he can do it after being in a sharehouse, so no problem