Teaching, tutoring and classes
Lessons that repeat weekly, run in terms, and are usually paid for in advance. Explore suggested settings for 24 types of business, including appointment lengths, time between bookings, payments and considerations for operating in Japan.
English teachers and private tutors#
The same student in the same slot every week, booked around a Japanese school or work day, which means everything happens after 16:00 and at weekends.
| Duration | 50 minutes for adults, 30 for children |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 12 hours |
| Time between appointments | 10 minutes after, to write up and reset |
| Max bookings per day | Six lessons a day before your voice gives out |
| Location | Video, or in person at a café or the student’s home |
| Payment | Paid online — it ends the awkward conversation about cash in an envelope |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before, none inside — the slot was held for them |
Suggested booking questions: Current level · What do you want to use English for? · Adult or child, and age
Private lessons compete with the big eikaiwa chains on exactly one thing: it is you every week, not whoever is rostered. A booking page with your own name on it is part of that argument, and a free 20-minute trial lesson is the standard way in.
Booking guide for english teachers and private tutors in Japan
Eikaiwa and language schools#
Several teachers, a timetable, and trial lessons that have to land with whoever is actually free.
| Duration | 40 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 12 hours |
| Location | In person or video |
| Payment | Trial free, courses invoiced outside the booking system |
| Cancellation policy | Not applicable to a free trial |
Business Box is one diary per account, so a school with several teachers runs an account per teacher today. It suits a small school and does not suit a large one — worth knowing before you build a timetable on it.
Japanese language teachers#
Students are foreign residents and overseas learners, so lessons are booked across time zones and almost always online.
| Duration | 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 12 hours |
| Max bookings per day | Six a day |
| Location | Video |
| Payment | Paid online in yen |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before |
Suggested booking questions: Current level, roughly — JLPT or self-assessed · What are you studying for? · Your time zone
An overseas student sees your times in their own time zone automatically, so you never have to do the arithmetic. Keep your availability in Asia/Tokyo and let the booking page convert it.
Academic tutors#
Weekly slots booked by a parent for a child, concentrated in the hours between school and dinner, and rising sharply before exams.
| Duration | 60 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| How far ahead customers can book | 120 days |
| Max bookings per day | Four or five after school |
| Location | Video, or in person |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before |
Suggested booking questions: Student’s year and school · Subject and curriculum · What are we working towards?
International-school families work to a different calendar from Japanese schools — IB and A-level deadlines, not 受験. Say which curriculum you tutor in the event name; it is what parents search for.
Juku and cram schools#
The commercial booking is the parent consultation and the placement test, not the classes themselves.
| Duration | 45 minutes for a consultation, 90 for a placement test |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 48 hours |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Free consultation, courses invoiced separately |
| Cancellation policy | Not applicable |
IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC preparation#
Demand is driven by a test date, so students book intensively for six weeks and then disappear.
| Duration | 60 minutes, plus a 30-minute speaking practice event type |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 12 hours |
| How far ahead customers can book | 120 days |
| Location | Video |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before |
Suggested booking questions: Which test and which date? · Current or target score · Which section needs the work?
Eiken preparation#
Tied to three fixed national test dates a year, with the interview stage needing its own short mock-exam booking.
| Duration | 50 minutes, 20 for an interview mock |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 12 hours |
| Location | Video or in person |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before |
Demand spikes hard in the weeks before each 英検 sitting. Raise your daily cap for those weeks rather than turning students away, and use date overrides to open weekends.
University entrance and admissions prep#
Long sessions on essays and interviews, booked to a hard external deadline that nobody can move.
| Duration | 60 or 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| How far ahead customers can book | 180 days |
| Location | Video |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 48 hours before |
Business English coaching#
Booked in the gaps of a working day — 08:00, lunchtime, 19:00 — and often paid for by the company rather than the student.
| Duration | 45 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 12 hours |
| Location | Video |
| Payment | Paid online, or invoiced to the employer |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before |
Suggested booking questions: What do you need English for at work? · Is your employer paying? · Any upcoming presentation or meeting?
Corporate language training#
Sold to a company, delivered to its staff, with the invoice and the attendee being different people entirely.
| Duration | 60 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 48 hours |
| Location | Video or on site |
| Payment | Invoiced to the company — use pay in person and bill separately |
| Cancellation policy | Agreed in the contract rather than on the page |
Give each corporate client an invite-only event type so their staff book from a link that is not on your public page, and their rate is not visible to anyone else.
Maths and science tutors#
Weekly sessions that double in frequency for a month before exams, and drop to nothing over the summer.
| Duration | 60 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| Location | Video |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before |
Coding tutors and bootcamps#
A free discovery call, then long paid sessions, with students in several countries at once.
| Duration | 30 minutes discovery, 90 for a session |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 12 hours |
| Location | Video |
| Payment | Discovery free, sessions paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before |
Suggested booking questions: What do you want to build? · Any programming experience? · Your time zone
Music teachers#
Thirty and sixty minute lessons on a fixed weekly slot, mostly after school and at weekends, with a recital season that upends the timetable twice a year.
| Duration | 30 minutes for children, 60 for adults |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| Time between appointments | 5 minutes between lessons |
| Max bookings per day | Eight short lessons in an afternoon |
| Location | In person at your studio, at the student’s home, or video |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before, none inside — the slot cannot be resold |
Suggested booking questions: Instrument and level · Age of the student · Do you have an instrument at home?
Teaching at home in an apartment brings noise limits that decide your hours more than demand does. Set the availability schedule to the hours you can actually play, and it will never offer 21:00 by accident.
Music schools#
Rooms and teachers are both finite, and the booking that matters is the trial lesson.
| Duration | 30 minutes for a trial |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Trial free or low-cost |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before |
Art classes and workshops#
Materials are bought per head, so a no-show costs more than an empty seat.
| Duration | 120 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 48 hours, so materials can be prepared |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 48 hours before, none inside — materials are already bought |
Business Box books one party per time slot, so several customers cannot sign up for the same class individually — the first booking takes the session. It fits private sessions, trials and one-to-one teaching today. See what that means for group classes. Group booking limitations
Pottery and ceramics classes#
A wheel per person, and the piece has to be collected weeks later after firing — which is a second appointment.
| Duration | 120 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 48 hours |
| How far ahead customers can book | 90 days |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 48 hours before |
Tourists booking a one-off class need to know before they pay whether the piece can be shipped or has to be collected. Put it in the description and repeat it in the confirmation message.
Business Box books one party per time slot, so several customers cannot sign up for the same class individually — the first booking takes the session. It fits private sessions, trials and one-to-one teaching today. See what that means for group classes. Group booking limitations
Calligraphy (書道) classes#
A visitor experience and a long-term study class share a studio but have nothing else in common.
| Duration | 60 minutes for an experience, 90 for a study class |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Paid online for experiences, in person for regular students |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 48 hours before |
Business Box books one party per time slot, so several customers cannot sign up for the same class individually — the first booking takes the session. It fits private sessions, trials and one-to-one teaching today. See what that means for group classes. Group booking limitations
Cooking classes#
Ingredients are bought for the people who booked, so a late cancellation is a real cost, and most bookings come from visitors who pay before they arrive in the country.
| Duration | 150 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 48 hours, so shopping can be done |
| How far ahead customers can book | 180 days |
| Location | In person, with the nearest station and a map link in the description |
| Payment | Paid online in yen — the customer is overseas and will not pay on the day |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 72 hours before, 50% inside that, none inside 24 hours |
Suggested booking questions: How many people? · Any allergies or dietary requirements? · Which country are you visiting from?
Overseas guests book weeks ahead in their own time zone and read the page in English. Dietary restrictions are the question that saves the class: halal, vegetarian and shellfish allergies all need a different shop.
Business Box books one party per time slot, so several customers cannot sign up for the same class individually — the first booking takes the session. It fits private sessions, trials and one-to-one teaching today. See what that means for group classes. Group booking limitations
Sushi-making classes#
Fish is bought that morning for the exact number of seats booked, so the cut-off has to be real.
| Duration | 120 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 48 hours |
| How far ahead customers can book | 180 days |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | No refund inside 48 hours — the fish is bought |
Suggested booking questions: How many people? · Any seafood allergies? · Do you eat raw fish?
Business Box books one party per time slot, so several customers cannot sign up for the same class individually — the first booking takes the session. It fits private sessions, trials and one-to-one teaching today. See what that means for group classes. Group booking limitations
Sake tasting and sommelier sessions#
Small group sessions at fixed evening times, sold almost entirely to visitors.
| Duration | 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| How far ahead customers can book | 180 days |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 48 hours before |
Suggested booking questions: How many people? · Any alcohol restrictions? · Everyone over 20?
Business Box books one party per time slot, so several customers cannot sign up for the same class individually — the first booking takes the session. It fits private sessions, trials and one-to-one teaching today. See what that means for group classes. Group booking limitations
Tea ceremony experiences#
Fixed session times through the day, each needing the room reset completely before the next.
| Duration | 60 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| Time between appointments | 30 minutes after, to reset the room |
| How far ahead customers can book | 180 days |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 48 hours before |
Suggested booking questions: How many people? · Can everyone sit on the floor? · Any dietary restrictions?
Business Box books one party per time slot, so several customers cannot sign up for the same class individually — the first booking takes the session. It fits private sessions, trials and one-to-one teaching today. See what that means for group classes. Group booking limitations
Ikebana and flower arrangement#
Flowers are ordered per student and do not keep, so the booking cut-off is set by the florist rather than by you.
| Duration | 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 72 hours |
| Location | In person |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | No refund inside 72 hours — the flowers are ordered |
Business Box books one party per time slot, so several customers cannot sign up for the same class individually — the first booking takes the session. It fits private sessions, trials and one-to-one teaching today. See what that means for group classes. Group booking limitations
Driving instructors#
Lessons run in one and two hour blocks with pick-up and drop-off at the student’s address, so travel between lessons is part of the working day.
| Duration | 60 or 120 minutes |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| Time between appointments | 30 minutes after, for travel |
| Max bookings per day | Four to five lessons a day with travel |
| Location | In person, pick-up address from the booking form |
| Payment | Paid online, or in person against a prepaid block |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 48 hours before, none inside 24 — the hour cannot be refilled |
Suggested booking questions: Do you hold a licence already, and from where? · Automatic or manual? · Pick-up address
Converting a foreign licence (外免切替) and practising for the Japanese test are different products with different students, and English-speaking instruction is the reason foreign residents choose you. Make them two event types and say so in each.
School admissions and study-abroad consultants#
A free first conversation with a parent, then paid sessions to a deadline set by a university on the other side of the world.
| Duration | 30 minutes free, 60 paid |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| How far ahead customers can book | 180 days |
| Location | Video |
| Payment | First call free, sessions paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 48 hours before |
Suggested booking questions: Student’s year and current school · Which countries are you considering? · Application deadlines you are working to
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Last reviewed 16 October 2026.