8 home tutoring companies and cram schools in Kanto
- Home tutoring fees are ¥1,000 for 30 minutes at Ganba and from ¥3,960 for 1 hour at Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai.
- Joining fees are ¥22,000 for Ganba, Asunaro, and Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai, and ¥30,000 for Yoyogi Shingakukai.
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Even the unit of the tutoring fee differs by company: for home-visit tutors, Ganba is ¥1,000 for 30 minutes and Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai is from ¥3,960 for 1 hour. For cram schools with individual instruction where you go to a classroom, Morijuku is from ¥5,880 a month for elementary school students, and Shonan Zemi’s individual instruction is from ¥3,600 per lesson for junior high school students.
This page lines up 5 home-visit tutoring companies and 3 classroom cram schools that you can apply to in Kanto (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba) by joining fee, lowest fee, free trial conditions and support for junior high school entrance exams. Some links on this page include advertising (ad), and the application links are for people living in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba.
In short
- If your child is not good at studying and you want a fee that stays the same as the grade goes up: Ganba (¥1,000 for 30 minutes for elementary and junior high school students).
- For a child who refuses to go to school or has a developmental disorder, and needs to be taught how to study: Asunaro (the official site says this is its specialty).
- To choose a course, from elementary school to university entrance exams, correspondence high schools and the high school equivalency exam: Nohvas (15 courses).
- To learn from University of Tokyo or other top-university students: Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai (a free trial of 150 minutes, fully paid after the lessons).
- For professional tutors for junior high school entrance exams: Yoyogi Shingakukai and Juken Dr. (tutors from ¥6,061 an hour).
- For individual instruction in a classroom: Morijuku (a “+20 points in 1 subject” results guarantee for junior high and high school students) and Shonan Zemi (free regular-test preparation for each school).
Checked with official pages on November 10, 2026 (Japan time). Prices and hours may change.
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1. Joining fee, price and free trial of the 8 companies compared
| Company | Type | Lowest fee (tax incl.) | Trial or consultation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganba | Home visit | From ¥1,000 for 30 minutes (elementary and junior high school) | Free trial lesson (120 minutes) |
| Asunaro | Home visit, online | From ¥500 for 15 minutes (elementary and junior high school; monthly fee separate) | Free trial lesson |
| Nohvas | Home visit | From ¥20,680 for 4 lessons a month of 90 minutes (elementary school grades 1 and 2) | Counseling and trial lesson both free |
| Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai | Home visit, online | From ¥3,960 for 1 hour | Free 150-minute trial (up to the first tutor) |
| Yoyogi Shingakukai | Home visit, online | From ¥25,740 a month (example of 1.5 hours x 4 lessons) | Free study consultation, a meeting with the tutor |
| Juken Dr. | Classroom (tutors also available) | From ¥11,880 per 85-minute lesson | Free trial lecture |
| Shonan Zemi | Classroom | Individual instruction from ¥3,300 per lesson (elementary school) | Free trial |
| Morijuku | Classroom | From ¥5,880 a month (elementary school, once a week) | Up to 1 month of free trial |
For home tutors, the unit of the fee differs by company: “30 minutes,” “1 hour” or “4 lessons a month.” For classroom cram schools with individual instruction, the monthly fee is set by the number of lessons. Besides the joining fee, Ganba and Asunaro charge a ¥16,000 deposit (refunded in full when you leave, if no payments are overdue), and Nohvas and Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai charge a ¥3,300 monthly learning support fee.
2. Ganba: ¥1,000 for 30 minutes for elementary and junior high school, the same as the grade goes up
The tutoring fee is ¥1,000 per 30-minute lesson for elementary and junior high school students and ¥1,125 for high school students (tax included), and it does not change as the grade goes up or when the student becomes an exam candidate. The fee does not change with the tutor’s background or university, and you can choose the number of lessons, days and times. There is no tutoring fee for a day when the lesson is missed, and you pay the tutor directly at the end of the month. Ganba official site price page (Japanese)
The joining fee is ¥20,000 plus consumption tax, or ¥22,000 per family, and is valid until the last sibling graduates from high school. The ¥16,000 deposit is refunded in full when you leave, if no payments are overdue. Travel costs are not needed within the range of the tutor’s commuter pass, and outside it about ¥250 each way. If the tutor is not a good match, you can change tutors for free as many times as you like. For two students taught at the same time, such as siblings or friends, the fee is about half per person.
The trial lesson is 120 minutes and free. Follow-up for a cram school for junior high school entrance exams is taught online by university students who went through the exams themselves, at ¥1,000 per 30-minute lesson plus a management and support fee of ¥12,100 a month. In this case the online trial lesson is 60 minutes. If you want a home visit, ask the head office. The areas introduced include Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Gunma. Ganba official site page on junior high school entrance exam follow-up (Japanese)
You can apply for the free trial lesson on the free trial lesson (120 minutes) application form (ad)
. Applications through this link are for people living in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba.
| Name | Ganba |
|---|---|
| Address | Kanto (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba); home visits to your address |
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3. Asunaro: specialist for children who struggle with studying, from ¥500 for 15 minutes
In the Tokyo area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama), the tutoring fee is ¥500 per 15-minute lesson for elementary and junior high school students and ¥550 for high school students (tax included), and you pay only for the time taught. It specializes in children who struggle with studying and children who refuse to go to school or have developmental disorders, and the official site says it does not recommend it for children aiming at top-class private schools. Many families reportedly start with a monthly payment of about ¥15,000 to ¥25,000. Asunaro official site price page (Japanese)
There are 2 teaching methods. The method using a preview-and-review notebook for each school and test preparation charges a learning seminar fee in addition to the tutoring fee, of ¥4,400 a month for 1 subject among English, math and Japanese, and ¥3,300 a month for 1 subject among science and social studies. The method using the school textbook or the cram school homework and supplementary materials charges a management and support fee of ¥9,900 a month for elementary school students, ¥12,100 for junior high school students and junior high school entrance exams, and ¥15,400 for high school students. There is no tutoring fee for a lesson that was missed.
The registration fee is ¥22,000 per family and is valid until the last sibling graduates from high school. The ¥16,000 deposit is refunded in full when you leave, if no payments are overdue. Travel costs are not needed within the range of the tutor’s commuter pass. The teaching areas include Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma. The trial lesson is free. Asunaro official site top page (Japanese)
| Name | Asunaro |
|---|---|
| Address | Kanto (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba); home visits to your address |
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4. Nohvas: 15 courses, from ¥20,680 for 4 lessons a month of 90 minutes
For 4 lessons a month of 90 minutes, the tutoring fee is from ¥20,680 (tax included) for grades 1 and 2 of elementary school, ¥24,200 for the first year of junior high school and ¥29,040 for grades 1 and 2 of high school, and a learning support fee of ¥3,300 a month is also charged. The junior high school entrance exam course is ¥29,480 for 90 minutes and ¥32,560 for 120 minutes for elementary school students. Nohvas official site price page (Japanese)
The center registration fee at joining is ¥20,000 (¥22,000 with tax), once per household. Travel costs are paid at actual cost only outside the tutor’s commuter pass section. Changing the tutor is free as many times as you like, and a cooling-off period applies for 8 days from the application. For siblings taught at the same time, the fee is 1.2 times the older child’s fee for both, and for a student taught with a friend it is 0.6 times for each.
There are 15 courses, which you can choose from: elementary school, junior high school entrance exams, schools affiliated with combined junior-senior high schools, junior high school, high school entrance exams, high school, university entrance exams, correspondence high schools, the high school equivalency exam, returnees from abroad, and “Kokoro no Mirai” for children who refuse to go to school or have developmental disorders. The teachers are university and graduate students and professional tutors. Both counseling and the trial lesson are free. The areas covered are Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi and Ibaraki. Nohvas official site page on areas covered (Japanese)
| Name | Nohvas |
|---|---|
| Address | Kanto (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Tochigi and Ibaraki); home visits to your address |
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5. Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai: University of Tokyo and top-university students, fully paid afterwards, 150-minute free trial
For the Basic course (standard teacher), the tutoring fee is from ¥3,960 per hour (tax included), the joining fee is ¥22,000, and the first trial lesson is a free 150 minutes. It is free up to the first teacher, and a trial with 2 or more teachers is ¥2,420 per teacher. The fee is in 15-minute units, and the amount for the lessons taken is billed the next month, which is a fully-paid-afterwards system. Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai official site price page (Japanese)
The ¥3,300 monthly learning support fee is charged only in months with at least 1 lesson. The trial fee, teacher change fee, lesson cancellation fee, renewal fee, cancellation fee, sibling joining fee and rejoining fee are all ¥0. There are no designated teaching materials to buy, and you can use school textbooks and cram school texts.
For the junior high school entrance exam course, grades 1 to 5 of elementary school are ¥4,510 an hour (¥5,060 for teachers from top junior high schools) and grade 6 is ¥5,060 (¥5,610). Cram school preparation for SAPIX, Nichinoken, Yotsuya Otsuka and Waseda Academy is ¥6,600. The professional tutor course is currently closed to new applications. The home-visit dispatch areas are Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama. Online lessons are also available. Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai official site page on dispatch areas (Japanese)
| Name | Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai |
|---|---|
| Address | Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama; home visits to your address |
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6. Yoyogi Shingakukai: professional tutors specializing in junior high school entrance exams, joining fee ¥30,000
The joining fee is ¥30,000 (tax included), and examples of the monthly tutoring fee are ¥25,740 to ¥36,300 for student tutors and ¥42,900 to ¥69,300 for professional tutors (1.5 hours a lesson, 4 lessons a month). For 2 hours a lesson and 4 lessons a month, it is ¥34,320 to ¥48,400 for student tutors and ¥57,200 to ¥92,400 for professional tutors. The fee changes with the tutor’s experience. Yoyogi Shingakukai official site price page (Japanese)
In the first month you pay for the actual teaching time, and from the second month you pay the contracted one month’s fee at a fixed amount every month. Payment is by bank account debit or bank transfer, and credit cards cannot be used. For home visits, you pay the tutor’s travel costs directly to the tutor. Online lessons are the same as home visits in content and price, and can be taken from Japan or abroad if you have an internet connection and equipment.
The process is that after you request materials, there is a free study consultation, held at their office or at a home visit, and you decide whether to continue at the meeting with the tutor. From inquiry to the start of lessons takes about 10 business days at the shortest. If it is not a good match, you can choose a tutor again at no extra cost. The cooling-off period is within 8 days of the trial lesson date or the day you receive the contract documents. There are preparation courses for SAPIX, Nichinoken, Waseda Academy, Yotsuya Otsuka, Gnobel, Eiko Seminar and Ichishin Gakuin. Yoyogi Shingakukai official site page on the process from joining to lessons (Japanese)
| Name | Yoyogi Shingakukai |
|---|---|
| Address | Kanto (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba); home visits to your address |
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7. Juken Dr.: specialist in junior high school entrance exams, from ¥11,880 per 85-minute lesson at the cram school
The individual instruction cram school is from ¥11,880 (tax included) per 85-minute one-to-one lesson, and the joining fee is ¥22,000 (once per family). The ¥11,880 is the tuition of the Master course (grades 4 and 5) with younger teachers. As the teacher’s course goes up, it becomes from ¥17,325 for the Doctor course, from ¥18,150 for the Super Doctor course, and ¥21,241 for grade 4 in the top Crown Doctor course. Juken Dr. official site page on Master course tuition (Japanese)
The classrooms are in Tokyo and Kanagawa: Yotsuya Headquarters, Azabu-Juban, Yoyogi, Jiyugaoka, Kichijoji, Tokyo, Seijo-Gakuen, Ochanomizu and Yokohama. You decide on enrolling after an interview and analysis of the child’s study situation, then a free trial lecture. Juken Dr. official site top page (Japanese)
It also dispatches home tutors, and the tutoring fee per hour is ¥6,061 (tax included) for the Semi-Pro course, ¥7,436 for the Regular Pro course, ¥9,845 for the Super Pro course and ¥11,396 for the top level. The costs are the joining fee and the monthly tutoring fee (paid the following month), and travel costs are paid at actual cost to the tutor. Juken Dr. official site page on home tutor courses and fees (Japanese)
You can request materials and apply for the free trial lecture of the individual instruction cram school on the Juken Dr. individual instruction cram school official site (ad)
. Applications through this link are for people living in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama.
| Name | Juken Dr. |
|---|---|
| Address | Tokyo and Kanagawa (9 classrooms); home tutors also dispatched |
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8. Shonan Zemi: free regular-test preparation for each school, individual instruction from ¥3,300 per lesson
Individual instruction can be applied for from 4 lessons a month (once a week), and the tuition per lesson is from ¥3,300 for elementary school students, ¥3,600 for junior high school students and ¥4,300 for high school students (tax included). The tuition changes with the grade, the content of instruction and the number of lessons a week. The joining fee is ¥16,500 (tax included). Elementary school grades 1 to 4 have no joining fee, except for the individual instruction course and the Waseda and Keio affiliated high school course. For group instruction (the General Advancement course), grade 1 of junior high school is from ¥17,700 a month for 2 days a week, grade 2 is from ¥23,700 for 3 days a week, and grade 3 is from ¥25,200 for 3 days a week from March to July and from ¥29,700 from September to February. Shonan Zemi official site tuition page (Japanese)
It offers free regular-test preparation for each school. There are also entrance exam courses for Yokohama Suiran High School and Omiya High School. The classrooms are in Yokohama, Kawasaki, Fujisawa and other cities in Kanagawa, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Koshigaya, Soka and Toda in Saitama, Funabashi, Matsudo, Ichikawa, Kashiwa and others in Chiba, and Kunitachi, Koganei, Setagaya, Tachikawa, Nerima, Machida and Meguro in Tokyo. Shonan Zemi official site classroom list page (Japanese)
For a free trial, the winter course and a 1-month free trial are shown at the top of the official site. It is run by the same Sprix group as Morijuku. Shonan Zemi official site top page (Japanese)
| Name | Shonan Zemi |
|---|---|
| Address | Kanto (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba); the address differs by classroom |
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9. Morijuku: up to 2 students per teacher, from ¥5,880 a month for elementary school
The monthly fee is from ¥5,880 for elementary school students, ¥11,700 for junior high school students and ¥15,300 for high school students (tax included, for once-a-week, 3-lessons-a-month lessons at Tokyo-area classrooms), and the usual enrollment fee is ¥20,000. It is individual instruction with up to 2 students per teacher, and in months with fewer lessons because of seasonal courses or holidays, the tuition is reduced by that amount. If siblings enroll, the enrollment fee is waived and the tuition is 20% off from the lower amount. If you inquire through the official site, there is a campaign that waives ¥10,000 of the usual ¥20,000 enrollment fee, and if you take the free trial of a seasonal course (4 to 5 days) and continue into the new term, the enrollment fee is waived in full. Morijuku official site tuition page (Japanese)
Junior high school and high school students have a “+20 points in 1 subject” results guarantee. Within 2 terms of enrolling, in the school’s midterm and final tests, students who enrolled with under 60 points must get 20 points or more higher in 1 subject, and students who enrolled with 60 points or more must reach 80 points or more. If it is not achieved, the tuition for the covered subject in the 3rd term is waived in full. English is not covered, and there are conditions such as being 10 minutes or more late, absent or forgetting homework on no more than a quarter of the covered lesson days, and joining seasonal courses such as spring and summer courses every time in the covered subject. Morijuku official site top page (Japanese)
The free trial is up to 1 month, and you can also try during the spring, summer and winter course periods. If you cancel enrollment before taking 4 lessons after enrolling (trial lessons count), the fees you paid are refunded in full. The classrooms are in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba, and also in Ibaraki, Gunma and Tochigi. Morijuku official site classroom list page (Japanese)
Common questions
How much is the joining fee for home tutors and cram schools in Kanto?
Ganba, Asunaro, Nohvas and Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai are ¥22,000 (tax included), and Yoyogi Shingakukai is ¥30,000. Juken Dr.’s cram school is ¥22,000, Shonan Zemi is ¥16,500, and Morijuku’s usual enrollment fee is ¥20,000.
Are there home tutors in Kanto with a free trial?
Yes. Ganba offers a free trial lesson of 120 minutes and Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai of 150 minutes (up to the first teacher). Asunaro and Nohvas also have free trial lessons, and Yoyogi Shingakukai starts with a free study consultation.
Can I ask for a home tutor in Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma too?
Yes, it depends on the company. Ganba lists Tochigi, Ibaraki and Gunma as areas it introduces, Asunaro lists Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma, and Nohvas lists Tochigi and Ibaraki. Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai’s list of dispatch areas is Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama, and for other areas you inquire to find out.
Which home tutoring company is best suited for junior high school entrance exams?
The specialists in junior high school entrance exams are Yoyogi Shingakukai and Juken Dr. Ganba, Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai and Nohvas also have courses for junior high school entrance exams. Asunaro says on its official site that it does not recommend itself for children aiming at top-class private schools.
| Name | Morijuku |
|---|---|
| Address | Kanto (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba); the address differs by classroom |
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| Official site | Open the official site ↗ |
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Sources
20 pages we checked
- Ganba: prices
- Ganba: junior high school entrance exam follow-up
- Asunaro: prices
- Asunaro: top page
- Nohvas: prices
- Nohvas: areas covered
- Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai: prices
- Todai Kateikyoshi Tomonokai: dispatch areas
- Yoyogi Shingakukai: prices
- Yoyogi Shingakukai: from joining to lessons
- Juken Dr.: Master course tuition
- Juken Dr.: top page
- Juken Dr. home tutors: courses and tuition
- Shonan Zemi: tuition
- Shonan Zemi: classroom list
- Shonan Zemi: top page
- Morijuku: tuition
- Morijuku: top page
- Morijuku: classroom list
- Japanese version of this page (日本語版)
Checked with official pages on November 10, 2026 (Japan time).
