HOPPA is a group of nursery schools/Kindergartens that provide English lessons from Native English instructors who also accompany their students throughout the day. The first school opened in 2011 in the historic city of Kyoto. HOPPA schools are part of the Kyoshin group – a large company which provides services such as nursery schooling, extra-curricular education and health care services. Currently, there are 95 HOPPA schools located all around the country (Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Shiga, Okinawa and Kanto areas. The schools offer English lessons for children from the ages of 6 months to 6 years old.