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Help to renovate our house next to our Hostel!

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The experience

We are renovating our house, located next to our hostel, from Nov 2025 to March 2025. If there are any volunteers who are experienced in DIY, construction, carpentry, please apply for this position!

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Drinks: Get discounts for drinks and beverages from our bar.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English or Intermediate Japanese

Over 20 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are looking for volunteers to help with renovation of our house (into a cafe/residence space)
For days where you work the full 6 hours, breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided. If there are no tasks for the renovation, we may ask you to only work 3 hours. In this case, only breakfast and lunch will be provided.
For your days off, please organise your own meals.

Renovation will begin in November 2025 and hoping to end in March. Minimum stay is 1 month, if you can stay longer then that's even better!

Bedroom for volunteers:
Bed in mixed or female dorm (in hostel, located next door)
Living room, kitchen, bathroom and shower are shared with other guests.
*guests have priority over use of above, so you are welcome to use our house (we live right next to the hostel!)

We have guests from all over the world come and stay at the hostel, so you can learn about different cultures from other guests. We are also happy to share our experiences living in Japan, teach you about Japanese customs/traditions, as well as some of the Japanese language!

Activities & Shift

Main duties for this position will include:
① Helping out with renovation
② Cleaning of hostel on busy days

Volunteers helping with renovation will be required to work 6 hours per day.
We are flexible with the working days/working hours so please discuss with us if you would like to take certain days off.
General working hours will be from 9:00-12:00, 13:00-16:00. On days where you will be cleaning the hostel, you will work 10:00-13:00 only.

A minimum stay of 1 month is preferred.