Lifestyle Information for Kitakyushu

This section of the site is aimed at non-Japanese residents of the Kitakyushu area, with the intent to provide some access to helpful information that could be useful in your daily life. Below there are a number of links to sites regarding information about the city, transport, medical care and insurance, to everyday information about the businesses and facilities in your area. We hope to expand this area of our site and provide the foreign residents of Kitakyushu with helpful and easy to access information. As such if you have suggestions, additions or something you feel needs amending please do not hesitate to Contact Us.

Life In Kitakyushu
This is a local Lifestyle handbook created by the K.I.A. for all foreigners residing in Kitakyushu. You should have received one when going through Alien Registration at your local ward office, but this is a must-read so we have it here in pdf format also. Click here.

Medical Matters
The link below is a website focused on providing local medical information, such as which hospitals accommodate which languages, what hospital deals with what and other information for Fukuoka prefecture. The link is only available to the home page and from there you must navigate your way to the medical search page. Towards the bottom of the left side of the page there is a link titled “Search By Corresponding Language”. Click on the link and this should take you to the search page. Click here.

Japanese Language Schools and Classes
Below is a list of some of the schools and classes that are available to Japanese language learners. These associations have no connection to the K.I.A., however, so interested parties must contact each school individually to check times, cost, requirements and of course if the course is suited to your current level of Japanese.Click here.