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Teach English at PLH Sanuki, in a converted school in Sanuki, Kagawa. Working Holiday Visa is an employment contract. You will teach Kids' classes, adult conversation, EIKEN prep, run weekly English events, and AI bootcamps. Tasks include cooking for events, cleaning, and maintenance of the building and dorms. If you are on a tourist visa, ask about our cultural exchange volunteer opportunity. Gorgeous countryside, warm community, fun events
18 hours of help per week
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.
Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.
Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!
Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.
Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.
Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.
Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely
Fluent English or Beginner Japanese
Between 18 and 50 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Travel insurance
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
PLH Sanuki is a community center inside a renovated elementary school in rural Kagawa, Japan, a few minutes from the Seto Inland Sea. The old classrooms are now a co-working space, an English cafe, an art and craft room, a gym, and an event hall. Every week the building fills up with local kids, adults learning English, elderly neighbours joining English sessions, and events. If you are on a Work Holiday Visa you are staff here, with a role and a schedule. You live in our staff housing a short distance from the school. We will go through every actual figure with you on a video call. On a tourist visa, we host you as a cultural exchange volunteer, not a job, with no hours or duties. Please state your visa type when you apply.
Teaching is the core of the week. You lead and co-teach after-school classes for kids, small-group and one-to-one conversation lessons, EIKEN exam preparation, and adult evening classes. Every week we also run English events: game nights, conversation cafes, movie nights and study hours. They are relaxed, they are genuinely fun, and they are how you get to know the town.
We are an AI-driven company and it makes the job easier. We use AI to help build lesson plans and materials and to run the booking and calendar systems, so you spend less time on prep and admin and more time actually teaching.
Cooking is part of this role and it is working time like any other. The kitchen serves lunch and dinner, the shifts are split across the staff team and named on the rota, and your kitchen hours are recorded. It is not a favour and it is not extra.
Alongside that you help the site run: setting up and packing down events, welcoming visitors, photos and social media, and the general work of keeping a big old building going. Quiet weeks are steady and calm. Camp weeks and event weeks are busy and very social. You will know the neighbourhood quickly, because the neighbourhood comes to us.
You must already hold a working holiday visa for Japan if you are applying for the staff position. We cannot sponsor a visa.
We host tourist-visa travellers on a separate cultural exchange volunteer opportunity, which we will discuss in the interview. Fluent English is highly preferred. Japanese at any level is a bonus. Travel insurance for your stay is required. Cooking, cleaning, and event setup are part of the role alongside teaching.
Basic physical ability is required: standing, cleaning, light lifting. Respect for local culture, community members and shared spaces is essential, and safety instructions are followed at all times. No alcohol during working hours. Bring initiative. If you see a problem, fix it or tell someone.
