PAPALAGI Diving School Ikebukuro

PAPALAGI Diving School Ikebukuro is a PADI 5 Star IDC dive centre based in Tokyo, Japan, welcoming everyone from first-time snorkellers to divers working toward professional-level qualifications. Courses on offer include PADI Scuba Diving, PADI Snorkelling, and PADI First Aid — EFR, so you can build your skills step by step at your own pace.

What it's known for

This is a school built around getting more from your weekends. Alongside certification courses, PAPALAGI runs a full calendar of tours, events, and sea-themed seminars, giving newly certified divers plenty of reasons to keep coming back. Instruction is delivered in Japanese.

The centre keeps rental and retail well covered, with equipment sales and a full scuba rental range that includes BCDs, wetsuits, drysuits, masks, fins, and cylinders. On-site facilities include air conditioning and a retail shop, and the team also takes part in conservation activities. Local waters here are home to sharks, whales, turtles, ocean fish, eels, molluscs and crustaceans, corals, anemones, and more — a rich mix for divers of every level.