Life Guide
■ Residence & Daily Life
○ Access around Campus: Higashi-Hiroshima Campus Kasumi Campus Higashi-Senda Campus
○ Housing for International Students
○ Finding Private Accomodations
○ Necessary Procedures at the City Office: Higashi-Hiroshima City Hiroshima City
○ National Health Insurance Scheme
■ Car and Bike Information
○ Driver's License Information
○ Compulsory Automobile Liability Insurance & Optional Automobile Insurance
(*Make sure to purchase optional automobile insurance.)
○ Abandoned Bicycle and Registration
○ One-Handed Bike Riding Prohibited
○ Do you know rules of riding a bicycle?
■ Disaster Prevention / Safety / Emergency
[Higashi-Hirshima City]
○ The 119 for emergencies is available in multiple languages
○ How to get disasters information (before & after)
○ Hazard Map (multiple languages)
○ Evacuation Areas in Higashi-Hiroshima Campus (in case of earthquake)
○ Map of Evacuation Areas Around Higashi-Hiroshima Campus
○ What to do when an earthquake occures
[Hiroshima City / Hiroshima Prefecture]
○ Portal Site of Hiroshima City for Disaster Prevention
○ Preparing for heavy rain, typhoons and earthquakes
○ Hiroshima-City Evacuation Guide App
○ Hiroshima Pref. Disaster Prevention Web
■ Useful Links
○ Communication Corner (in Sun-square Higashihiroshima)
＊ Living Information for foreign residents
＊ Life in Hiroshima: A Guide for Internatoinal Residents
○ A Guide to Higashihiroshima Municipal Elementary and Junior High Schools for International Residents
○ Hiroshima International Center
○ Guidebook for Starting School (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
○ A daily life support portal for foreign nationals (Ministry of Justice)
◆日本語のページへ Click here for Japanese website
Latest update: June 7th, 2022
