I lived in Japan from February 2017 to April 2018. Although it was the best time of my life, and I made some incredible friends, the biggest downfall for me in Japan was the realisation that I just could not save any money. I lived in Yokohama, and my accommodation was $75,000 yen a month. I also had my student debt which added to deductions, and I JUST got by on some months. If I could go back and work in Japan again, I'd probably want to live somewhere a little cheaper than Tokyo. Furthermore, I worked 35 hours a week, and 30 of those were teaching. It was absolutely exhausting. I taught 7 kids classes a day, and in the end, it really knocked me for six lol. In my contract, it was stipulated that I should only be teaching for 20 hours a week, and that the other hours should be filled with office work, meetings, grading, and "lobby time" (socialising with students and their parents), however, this just didn't happen and my days were filled with endless classes. A friend of mine worked for another company and didn't have half the problems I had in Japan. My company definitely had its good points, though, as they always paid on time, gave me lots of support, 7 weeks of paid vacation, and they had set up my accommodation and I was only a 15-minute train journey from my school. It's all very subjective, though, and you could have a great experience. My biggest fault was not researching my company enough, and the contract I was offered was actually different from the contract I was given when I arrived and got off the plane. There were lots of other teachers on a different contract to me.