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Come experience the everyday life of a Japanese family while discovering beautiful Hiroshima! 🇯🇵✨
Your main role will be spending time with our two children, playing together and helping them practice simple English through fun and natural conversations. đź’›
You’ll have plenty of free time to explore Hiroshima, visit Miyajima ⛩️ and enjoy local life!
20 hours of help per week
Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.
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
Intermediate English
Between 23 and 60 years old
Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Our main rule is to play our two children (11 years old son and 9 years old daughter)
They do not understand much English yet, so please use simple words when speaking to them. Our older son loves physical activities, so we especially welcome someone who enjoys being active and playing with him. And he likes game and reading books. Our younger daughter can be a little sensitive but likes playing with elderly people. My husband goes to mow the grass at the solar power plant about once a month. I’d be happy if you could come along and help out.　We're shy and a bit of a reserved person, but we're looking forward to meeting people from different countries.
We would like you to speak as much English as possible with them. You do not need to have prior experience working with children - just love for kids and an enjoyment of playing together is enough. We hope our kids can learn about different cultures and values; it would be wonderful if you could also share your skills with them.
How you’ll help
Our regular schedule is around 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, with 2 days off.
Play and spend time with our children
Practice simple English through everyday conversations
Play games and have fun together
Help with some light house cleaning
Share your culture and experiences with our family
On weekdays, you'll usually spend time with the children in the evening after they return from school.
On weekends, our son often has baseball games or practice. You’re welcome to come watch, spend time with our daughter, or join us when we meet friends!
Occasionally, especially during holidays, we may ask for around 5 hours of help. When this happens, we’ll adjust the exchange, such as providing all 3 meals and planning enjoyable activities together.
Please note: We live in an apartment, so we cannot accept smokers. We also ask everyone to keep noise to a minimum at night.
We’d love to welcome someone who wants to experience Japan not just as a traveler, but as part of our everyday family life!
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 :)
