Most home stays do not accept traveler's checks or credit cards.

With home stays, and some hotels, it is possible to negotiate a better rate by just showing up.

Turn left there, and follow two more signs that direct you to the home stay.

While a home stay is generally part of the program, separate accommodations may be made (the school has apartments).

With oil companies booking the city's 12 hotels months in advance, an option is to try a home stay.

Participants then disperse to their first home stays (always in the greater Tokyo area).

One key factor in choosing a home stay is distance from the school; it may not be walkable.

The two cities start exchanging people for home stay.

We asked a taxidriver on the street and he knew some addresses for home stays.

It is also possible to arrange a home stay.