The paper summarizes the de-velopment and the features of the col-lege towns in Japan,makes concretethe concepte of“communicationamong students”and“realizing self-value”.The changes of the collegetowns,the character of space,atmo-sphere of the streets and functional rolesthey play are analyzed from variousangles.Form the analysis,it extends tothe college towns in China,and givessome suggestions on studies and plan-ning of college towns.