22F, moving to Japan as language school student

How exciting! I was researching doing the same so I live vicariously through your adventures 😭

Good choice. It’s a great school. I wanted to attend it too but due to seats getting filled fast I couldn’t and instead went for ISI.

I am in a different school. Always a mix of excitement and bamboozling when going to live in a new country for the first time. If that can help ease your mind, I am with someone who has N3 and is like you (passionate since a kid). I can tell you that having N2 and the strong background you described will help you a lot and people will be super nice to you if they can have a conversation in japanese with you. That has even become my main motivation for learning (I am only N5) seeing her having that. You'll probably have many more questions once you're here, it is not my first time living abroad and I must state that Japan is challenging (but because we brought in some special challenges also, to be fair to the country), but fun. Feel free to reach out, we got some huge help here from the locals so if I can give back some of that kindness to someone I would be happy to!

I hope it gets better for you! Thanks for telling your situation realistically!