Abstract
As a part of the housing problems of a specific group in Japanese society, this study investigated the way of life and housing needs of students, and a proposal to solve the problems facing them was made.
The present situation of students' life and the actual conditions of their commute daily to the school and back to their own homes are as follows :
1) In general, students are of unmarried status, without a permanent source of income, having more personal free time than other social groups in Japanese society.
2) The duration of time taken from home to school for more than half of the students surveyed has proved to be over 90 minutes, whereas for a little less than 30 percent of the surveyed group, it takes over 2 hours.
3) Such an extended period of time spent travelling back and forth between home and school results not only in fatigue but is found to have a particular effect on students' extra-curricular (club) activities.
