Language placement test and opening ceremony. Welcome party by host families. Regular classes begin. Overnight group trip to Onuma Quasi-National Park. First Semester examinations.
Second semester begins.
Those who are participating in the Hokkaido Cultural Exchange Program will stay with their host families in Hakodate until the biginning of the program. Those who are not participating in the Hokkaido Cultural Exchange Program will return to their country. All Hokkaido Cultural Exchange Program participants meet here. An orientation is held after breakfast. Students leave Hakodate and travel to their assigned towns in the southern Hokkaido.