Tokyo Children's Garden

At Tokyo Children's Garden we adopt a multi-teacher approach so we can understand each child's unique learning style and abilities, thereby providing the best learning environment for each child.

With a maximum of eighteen children, our communication with parents is personal and in-depth. As our five teachers know every child, parents have peace of mind that they can speak to any teacher about their child's day.

Everything in Tokyo Children's Garden's spacious classroom is at child level, creating a learning space that is inviting and comfortable.

“With the speed of innovation today, we no longer know what skills our children will need for their future success. That is why children need teachers’ support to develop fundamental skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and communication. At Tokyo Children’s Garden, we use a contemporary child-centered approach that sparks our students’ imagination and sets them on the path to be independent, life-long learners.

From our backgrounds in education and research, we know the key to a great school is its teachers. Rather than each child being taught by only one teacher, we have adopted a collaborative approach; our five teachers support all eighteen students at the same time. Teachers support each other to teach in the best way possible for each child and really get to know their unique needs and abilities".

“Our goal is not a successful school; we are determined to create the best school.

And we are equally committed to supporting the wellbeing and development of teachers across Japan through our workshops, thereby leading in the creation of a supportive educational ecosystem. We hope to make a difference to society through the work that we do.”

Our goal is to deliver the best preschool for our students and their parents. We believe that early years education is not only about supporting children to develop skills but also about encouraging confidence, compassion, and respect.

Through our education and academic research, we know that children learn in different ways, including verbally, visually, or musically. We are inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach, drawing on its child-centered, inquiry-based learning style. We aim to give our students a great start in their lifelong learning. We enable children to realize their passions by helping them find what interests them.

Our teachers are well versed in established research and keep up to date with current and cutting-edge developments in the field. At our extensive range of workshops, our teachers—and those from other schools—learn from leading domestic and international experts on topics such as bilingualism and how play positively influences future academic success. We extend an open invitation because our aim is to create a supportive hub. Our co-founder and director, Hisao Ihara, is also director of the Association of International Early Childhood Education, a leading organization in providing best practice examples.

Through our multi-teacher environment, teachers gain ongoing professional development from their experienced peers. They receive support on encouraging positive behaviour, handling difficult situations and, most important, recognizing and understanding each child’s unique needs and how to best cater to them.

By interacting with all the students throughout the day, our teachers gain a range of perspectives on each one’s unique needs and abilities, fostering better understanding of the teaching approach that each child needs.

We are a new school but we are dedicated to making it the best school for preschool children. To do that, we have drawn on our international teaching experience in three countries and extensive knowledge of early years education best practice globally, to create an innovative style ideally suited to the needs of both children and parents.

Our five teachers care for all eighteen students at the same time. This collaborative approach is at the heart of all we do because, in any field, through discussion, team-building, reflection, and ongoing training, great things happen.

We aim to plant a seed of confidence and happiness that will help develop our students into confident, independent, and compassionate children who care about others. With students of varying ages interacting together, we encourage them to grow in a natural way, learning social skills from each other as one would in a large, extended family.

We see beauty in the Japanese education system and have incorporated its best elements into our school. We instill our students with a sense of responsibility for themselves and others, a respect for their environment, and an appreciation of beauty.

We founded Tokyo Children’s Garden to offer the best preschool education. We believe that every child has amazing potential and should have access to a great education; our dream is that our approach can bring about change in the wider education system.

In the critical early years period, children’s education does not stop or even slow down once children leave the classroom. That’s the reason we equip our students with the skills to learn for themselves as they step out into the world.