Quran Teacher Japan

Quran Teacher in Japan: One to One Online Classes for Kids, Sisters and Adults

Serving families in all 47 prefectures. Thirty minute lessons, five days a week, booked in Japan Standard Time. Qualified male and female teachers. Taught in English and Urdu. Your first three trial classes are free and we do not ask for card details.

WhatsApp us · islamickquranacademy@gmail.com · Page updated August 2026

Where our students in Japan live

Japan’s Muslim community has grown fast. Professor Emeritus Hirofumi Tanada of Waseda University estimated about 420,000 Muslims in Japan at the end of 2024, up from roughly 230,000 in 2019. He counted around 160 mosques in July 2025.

Those families are not spread evenly. Tanada’s prefecture estimates put about 31,000 Muslims in Tokyo, 22,000 in Saitama, 22,000 in Aichi, 16,000 in Kanagawa, 14,000 in Ibaraki, 11,000 in Osaka and 10,000 in Chiba. Akita has about 300.

Your options depend a great deal on your postcode.

A family near Okubo dori in Shinjuku can walk to halal shops and a prayer space. A family in Akita, Kochi or Tottori may be two hours from the nearest jumu’ah. Both need the same thing for their children. Only one of them can get it nearby.

Why families here study at home

Research from the Institute for Multi ethnic and Multi generational Societies records that Japan still has no full Islamic school. Children’s Quran classes are run at mosques by volunteers, on weekday evenings and weekends. The same research notes that a number of these classes have closed when volunteers moved away or when parents could not agree on how to run them.

That leaves three problems for a working parent.

Distance

Outside the large cities there may be nothing within an hour’s drive.

Timing

Volunteer classes run when volunteers are free, usually Saturday afternoon. Japanese school life already claims that slot.

Continuity

A class that rests on one volunteer can stop without warning. A child halfway through the Qaida then waits months to restart.

Studying at home answers all three. The lesson happens at your kitchen table, at a time you picked, with the same teacher every day.

Class times built around Japan Standard Time

Japan runs on UTC+9. Our teachers work on UTC+5. A five o’clock lesson in Yokohama is one o’clock in the afternoon for your teacher. Evening slots in Japan sit inside our normal teaching day, so you are not competing for a scarce late night place.

Slots families here usually take:

• 6:30 to 7:30 in the morning: Before school. Popular with hifz students.
• 4:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon: After school, before club practice or juku.
• 7:00 to 9:00 in the evening: After dinner. The most requested window.
• 9:00 to 11:00 at night: Working adults.
• Weekend mornings: Whole family bookings.

You can pick your own timing and we match you with a teacher who is free then.

We plan around the Japanese school year

The school year here starts in April and ends in March. We book around it rather than against it.

Club activity is the biggest pressure on the calendar. The Japan Sports Agency found that around 70 percent of junior high students belong to a sports club and around 20 percent to a culture club. Practice runs after school and often on Saturdays. On top of that comes juku, where MEXT figures put average yearly spending by public junior high families at about 107,000 yen.

A thirty minute lesson fits into that. A fixed Saturday afternoon class does not.

We hold your slot during the school breaks. In 2026 that means Golden Week from 29 April to 6 May, the summer break from roughly 20 July to 31 August, Silver Week from 19 to 23 September, and the winter break from late December into early January. Send us your dates and your teacher and time are waiting when you return.

Your teachers

Every teacher at Islamic Quran Academy has completed full memorisation of the Quran. We have male and female teachers, native Arabic speakers from Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and Urdu speaking teachers who work in English.

Teaching is in English and Urdu. Arabic speaking teachers are available on request.

You meet your teacher during the free trial classes, before you agree to anything. If the match is not right for your child, tell us and we change the teacher at no cost. You can read what current students say on our feedback page.

Female teachers for sisters and girls

Ask for a female Quran teacher and we will assign one. The call is private and nobody else joins it. There is no travelling home after dark, no need for anyone to escort you, and no concern about hijab, because the room is your own.

This matters most for adult sisters. Many began learning as children, stopped, and now feel awkward asking. Your teacher has taught many adults at exactly that stage.

Courses

We run six courses. Each has its own page with the full outline.

• Noorani Qaida: Arabic letters, sounds and Makharij for absolute beginners.
• Quran reading with Tajweed: Reading fluently, one rule at a time.
• Hifz: Daily memorisation with fixed revision and a written target.
• Tarjuma: Word by word meaning of the Quran.
• Tafseer: Background, context and how a passage applies today.
• Urdu: Reading and speaking, useful for children in mixed language homes.

Daily duas, wudu and salah are taught alongside children’s lessons. See the full course list for details.

If your child mainly speaks Japanese

This is the most common question we get from families in Japan, and most academies avoid answering it.

Plenty of children here use Japanese at school all day. At home they may hear Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian or Arabic, but they read none of them. Some have one Japanese parent.

We teach in English and Urdu. We do not teach in Japanese. That still works, because the Qaida is learned through sound rather than translation. The teacher says the letter, your child repeats it, the teacher corrects the mouth position and the length. It is closer to a music lesson than a language class.

We keep instructions short and repeated, and we send notes home in roman letters so a parent can revise without Arabic. Tell us your child’s level in the trial class and we set the pace from there.

Adults and new Muslims

Nobody is too old to open the Qaida.

Several of our adult students started at page one in their thirties and forties. Many Japanese Muslims live far from any community, so a private lesson is often the only realistic way to begin.

Because the class is one to one, nobody hears you make mistakes and nobody is waiting for you to finish. Our FAQ page answers the practical questions adults usually ask first.

Fees and payment in Japan

$30 a month for 20 lessons of thirty minutes, Monday to Friday, one to one. That is close to 4,700 yen at the exchange rate in August 2026. Full details are on our monthly fee page.

Payment matters more in Japan than in most countries. Only about 42 percent of consumer spending here was cashless in 2025. Credit cards make up the largest share at roughly 30 percent, PayPay leads QR payments, and konbini payment at 7-Eleven, Lawson or FamilyMart remains normal for online purchases.

Tell us what suits you and we will arrange it. Message us on WhatsApp to confirm the payment options available for Japan.

Areas we serve

Tokyo: Shinjuku, Toshima, Shibuya, Adachi, Katsushika, Edogawa. Even here, a family in eastern Tokyo can be forty minutes each way from a class.

Saitama: Kawaguchi, Warabi, Toda, Yashio, Soka. One of the largest Muslim populations in the country and a long commute for many parents.

Aichi: Nagoya, Toyota City, Kasugai, Komaki, Anjo, Kariya. Manufacturing towns with large South Asian and Indonesian communities and few evening classes.

Kanagawa: Yokohama, Kawasaki, Ebina, Fujisawa, Atsugi.

Ibaraki: Tsukuba and Joso. Many research and technical families.

Gunma: Isesaki and Ota. A long established Pakistani community.

Chiba: Gyotoku, Ichikawa, Yachiyo, Narita.

Osaka and Hyogo: Namba, Tennoji, Sakai, Kobe.

Hokkaido: Sapporo and nearby towns, where the Indonesian community has grown quickly.

Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai, Niigata, Kanazawa, Okinawa: Anywhere with an internet connection.

What families say

Parents in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia have written about slow paced teaching, patient female teachers and children who went from shy to volunteering to recite. Read them on our students feedback page.

Start with three free trial classes

Send a WhatsApp message and tell us:

1. The student’s age
2. The course you want
3. Two times that suit you in Japan Standard Time

We match a teacher and confirm your slot. The trial classes cost nothing and need no payment details. You decide afterwards.

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