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Welcome to Heart Warmer, a cozy and family-style environment where you can experience authentic daily life in Japan while making a meaningful impact 🌸✨
We are looking for kind, responsible, and positive volunteers who enjoy spending time with children and being part of a warm home atmosphere 🤝
20 hours of help per week
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Housekeeping: Help with changing the bed linens and general housekeeping.
Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.
Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
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.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
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
Beginner English or Beginner Japanese
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
💛 About the Experience
This is not just volunteering, it’s a cultural exchange and human connection experience 🌍💫
You’ll:
👦 Support elementary school boys in their daily routines
🏡 Be part of a caring, family-like environment
🗣️ Practice languages and share cultures
✨ Experience real Japanese life beyond tourism
🌍🗣️ Cultural & Language Exchange
We love international exchange!
You’ll have the chance to:
🇯🇵 Learn about Japanese culture and daily life
🗣️ Practice languages with locals
🍳 Share your culture, stories, and even cook your favorite dishes
🏠 Accommodation & Perks
🛏️ Comfortable accommodation in a safe, homey environment
🍱 3 meals per day included (breakfast, lunch & dinner)
🧺 Access to all essential facilities (washing machine, etc.)
🌿❄️ Free Time & Activities
In your free time, you can:
🌸 Explore Japanese culture and local life
🌿 Enjoy nature during the green season
⛷️ Try winter sports during snowy months
✨ Relax and connect with the community
💫 What We’re Looking For
We value:
🌟 Responsibility and reliability
💬 Respectful communication
🤍 Compassion and a positive attitude
🤝 Flexibility and teamwork
💛 Why Join Us?
👶 Make a real difference in children’s daily lives
🇯🇵 Experience authentic Japan
🌍 Connect with people from different cultures
✨ Create meaningful memories
If you’re looking for a warm, genuine, and cultural experience, we would love to welcome you to Heart Warmer 💫
🧒 Your Role
Your main focus will be helping with daily life and supporting the children:
🚶♂️ Picking up and dropping off the kids from school
📚 Helping supervise homework
🧼 Light housework (cleaning, dishes, laundry)
🍽️ Supporting simple kitchen organization
❄️ In winter: helping with snow shoveling
No special skills needed, just a good heart, patience, and willingness to help 💛
⏰ Schedule
📅 Around 5 days per week
🕒 About 5 hours per day
Shifts may be split between morning and afternoon and are flexible, depending on the day and your schedule ✨
・If you go out or change your schedule, please be sure to share it in advance.
・Please cooperate to keep the shared space clean for common life.
・Please be considerate of noise at night and neighbours
・If you are in poor health or have trouble, please contact us immediately.
・In winter, there is snow and freezing, so please be careful when acting safely.
・Please respect the rules of life and manners in Japan
I would be happy if you could live with compassion so that we can spend time comfortably with each other.
Many worldpackers have been applying to this position recently. The host will probably not be able to respond to all of the applications, so we recommend that you also apply to other hosts in our community and not just this one :)
