This paper explores how people from different countries perceive the current dwelling environment and update their schemata of dwelling environment after living in Japan based on an interview survey. The subject were non-Japanese 6 adults living in Tokyo. Seeing from the responses to changes in the way of living after living in Tokyo and the superordinate concepts of the cognitive structure related to dwelling environment preference criteria, six categories were classified, and two of which showed positive changes in a way of living, “adaptation/new” and “adaptation/alternative”, are estimated to indicate that the schemata of dwelling environment has been updated.
