Horikoshi High School – A popstars birthplace
19.08.07Filed Under: Japan
Today I want to talk about a school Horikoshi High School or 堀越高等学校, a private school institution located in Tokyo’s Nakano district (中野区). What is so special and popular about this school is that this school has many Japanese popular stars and sportsman study in it. Well, I will focus more about the pop stars in this post.
Why this school has a lot of famous artists, idols in it because this school has provided the special courses that specially targeted to them which called as “TRAIT” aka Entertainment Course. This course offers much more flexibility and wider range of classes to make them study more. As you know, in Japanese, many stars come out in very early ages, they have to work and study at the same time. It is hard for them to balance both so they enrolled to this school.
Below are some of the names of popular stars that I know:
Male
- Yamashita Tomohisa (山下智久)
- Matsumoto Jun (松本潤)
- Teppei Koike (小池徹平)
- Tanaka Koki
- Ikuta Toma (生田斗真)
- Fujiwara Tatsuya (田中聖)
- Dohmoto Tsuyoshi (堂本剛)
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (草彅剛)etc.
Female
- Ayase Haruka (綾瀬はるか)
- Aoi Yuu (蒼井優)
- Nagasawa Masami (長澤まさみ)
- Kyoko Fukada (深田恭子)
- Saeko (サエコ)
- Sowelu
- Ayumi Hamasaki (濱崎步)
- Aya Ueto (上戶彩) etc.
Wow, actually there’s a lot Johnny’s member in it. Can’t believe my idol Ayumi Hamasaki was study before in this school too haha. That’s all. Hope you enjoy reading this article 
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Credits: Japanese Wiki | Chinese Wiki
Hey~ XD I was searching for some info on Horikoshi High School and came across this blog XD I’ve read a few other entries as well~ I checked out the Japanese wiki link .. And uwaaa SO MANY JOHNNY’S IN IT O_O” *coughs* sorry *coughs* overexcited XD as you can probably guess, I’m a big Johnny’s fan ~ (actually NEWS but still =.=) ~ Hmm I read your other entry on the Bon Odori festival. Maybe I should’ve gone *regret*~ Ah well, that’s all for now~ Bye bye~
August 25th, 2007 at 6:45 pmXD
July 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pmthanks for the info, dude.
but…this 2008…
didn’t Takaki Yuya and Yabu Kota already graduated??
I understand how you felt snowflakez
NewS is my favorite johnny’s group too. And Fuji-chan, I’m not very sure about both of them…
July 8th, 2008 at 8:49 pmne…i kow taiyou-san [former member of ya-ya-yah] is class president here…and is classmates with yaotome hikaru-san of hey!say!jump…and ne. arioka daiki-san also studies here from what i know…
July 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pmI see thats were Masami and Yamapi became friends no wonder there close calling each other Pi-tan and Ma-tan;childhood love kawaii Yamaki is nothing compared to YaMasami!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!–(but i do like tomaki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
October 28th, 2008 at 7:36 pmThere’s one more Johnny’s u forgot about
and thats
TEGOSHI!
He’s also from the same highshcool as yamapi, They mentioned it a while back on HeyX3! w/ perfume there
who are also graduates of this highschool
November 16th, 2008 at 3:16 amI don’t find the name of Kudo Minako (Honda Minako) among star’s list. Was she from Horikoshi High school? (Same years than Minamino yoko I think ) . Thank you If you can answer to me . …Nice look-desing this school! best regards.
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 amwaw…
awsome… ^^
i relly want to go Horikoshi High Scholl…
January 29th, 2009 at 3:32 pmi’m 13 now. i will tell my mother about it.. ^^
thx for the info ^^.. ja ne
wow horikoshi gakuen , I wonder how’s matsujun when he’s still young in horikoshi?? kyaa jun!
March 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pmhmmm…MY CHINEN, yamada and others are studying here…….
May 1st, 2009 at 10:19 pmI want to go there!!!!!!!
WoW! Thanks so much for the info.I’ve been looking for this.
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 pmYou are welcome
May 6th, 2009 at 9:26 amxet.. my yuto, yurii and yamada r now studyng there.. gosh.. i wsh i ws in tht school too.. since im at the same age… i could see them for 3 years….. haii.. ill just tke a nap.. and dream of them.. they are so out of reach..
May 9th, 2009 at 1:17 amyuuri chinen, yuuto nakajima, yamada ryosuke, shougo sakamoto also study there.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pmum, can others attend this school too? what’s the classes that this high school targets beside entertainment o_o
August 31st, 2009 at 9:29 pmi can see masami and yamapi stalking each other in this school,lol.
September 15th, 2009 at 7:52 ami want to study there!!!! it look sa cool plus some japanese hotties score!! im already in high school i want to transfer!!!!!
December 7th, 2009 at 8:50 pmAH!
July 20th, 2010 at 2:43 pmMiura Haruma studied there too!
i was surprised when i didn’t see miura haruma’s name there. like what yuuki said, he also studied there.
May 6th, 2011 at 11:53 amHi ashley, during the post time, I still didn’t know who is Miura Haruma. But now he is really popular and good looking. Thanks for the info!
May 7th, 2011 at 4:54 am[...] Horikoshi High School is a pretty unusual high school in Tokyo, in that… it’s common for idols to attend this school for its flexible schedules for hard-working idols. And it seems to be pretty expensive too~ Other notable students of this school are Ayumi Hamasaki, Aya Ueto, Matsumoto Jun, Kyoko Fukada, Masami Nagasawa, Asami Mizukawa, Anne Suzuki, and Ikuta Toma. [1][2][3] [...]
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