Toyo Language School vs Japan Switch - Help me decide on a 3-month program

I like Japanese Switch. I have taken classes there a few times. That being said, they offer classes and not a program. If you register for several classes, you'll get a similar experience. You might want to look at COTO and Genki Jacks too. I loved the Kumon classes when I was taking those.

Japan Switch are great if you want conversation style learning, and in the private lessons you can tailor it to your own style. They are really flexible too - can move lessons about pretty easily and aren't locked in to a certain time. That said, they don't provide Visa support (as far as I know) so not sure how you'll be able to move here with them? Unless you're just coming on a tourist visa? Someone else mentioned Coto in the comments - Japan Switch is a sister school of them, basically set-up to be more flexible and conversation lead, as Coto definitely isn't. It's very focused on learning a certain part of the books each day and no real deviation, and they aren't as flexible either.

Honestly, for a three-month course, I would think more about the difference in locations. Toyo is in the suburbs. Japan Switch is right in the city center. What do you want to do outside of school? Do you want to explore the city more and do a bit of traveling around Japan? Toyo doesn't offer that much time flexibility (like if you want to travel during the week to avoid the weekend crowds, then you have to skip classes that you already pay for), but Japanese Switch sounds more flexible. Toyo is mostly geared toward long-term students and leans more on JLPT prep, especially from N3 onwards (I studied from N4 to N1 there). But a few classmates only did a three-month course and had a good experience. I lived in the dorm for 1.5 years and I liked it. The rigor of the course really depends on how rigorous you want to make it. Teachers will leave a bit of homework, but they won't chase after you if you submit nothing. And if you choose Japanese Switch and want more practice, you can always search for free Japanese lessons information through kuyakusho. Or practice with AI, add more lessons at Japanese Switch, etc. I think it would be easier to make friends at Toyo, just because they have bigger classes. At Japanese Switch, I imagine that some of your group lesson classmates already live in Japan and have their own social life, so they're there just for language learning and not necessarily looking for friendship. So don't just think about what happens inside the school, think about the whole experience. What do you want to take advantage of by the fact that you are in Tokyo?