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🎎Please read my profile and answer all questions.🎏
🎍Only one person can stay. No couple or friends. 🎋
🎑Requests must be for the current and next month.🎴
🌏️ About us. 🗾
Hiro and his 4 roommates live in a very old house in Toshima Ward, Tokyo.
I (Hiro) am an IT engineer and have been renting the house for over 10 years.
My roommates are Chinese, Japanese, and Nepalis, including a queer woman.
They are a voice actor, an engineer, and a student. (so they are immigrant.)
They love anime, games, and music. Common language is Japanese for us.
Room sharing and coming out of the closet are uncommon in Japan.
🗻 Art project 🗼
My friend drew a mural, but there was still free space on the wall.
So I started to find artists to add their paintings to the wall on this site.
At least 20 people from all over the world have joined this art project so far.
We don't have any art skills. Offer the chance but not to join the project.
🥷 The neighborhood 👘
Two stations from Ikebukuro and thirty minutes from Shinjuku and Shibuya.
Very quiet residential area, but there are some restaurants and shops.
My house is very old and poorly ventilated, and it's in a natural area.
Not suitable for people with asthma or allergies to dust or animals.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Cycling
Water sports
Outdoor activities
Winter sports
Beach
Adventure sports
Nature
Fitness
Art & design
DIY & crafts
Carpentry
Drawing & painting
Sustainability
Politics / Social justice
Self development
Movies & TV
Languages
Music
Cooking & food
Books
Technology
LGBTQ
Events & social
Culture
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Sake, Japanese rice wine, is more than just a popular drink.
It also plays an essential role in many aspects of Japanese tradition and culture.
I offer my proudly homemade umeshu, Japanese plum wine, to my guest.
If my roommates have time, we can do a party at home or go out to drink all night.
Japan invented QR codes and emoji but also created pop culture too.
(ex: anime, manga, cosplay, video games, karaoke and so on)
My roommates can share their knowledge of Japanese pop culture.
One of them knows how to play guitar and other instruments, as well as skateboard.
My roommate used to go to women's bars in Shinjuku Ni-chome, the gay district.
Now she doesn't have time to go there, but she can tell her recommendation bars.
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese philosophy centered on finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompletion, appreciating the simple, rustic, and aged rather than the artificial or perfect. It is a vision that embraces the transient nature of life and the natural world, viewing flaws, such as cracks or wear, not negatively but as integral parts of an object's or experience's beauty and authenticity. However, understanding the concept correctly is challenging, as wabi-sabi is a word that’s difficult to articulate and grasp linguistically, relying more on a sensory understanding. You can feel these Japanese aesthetics in my old house.
Help
🍙Help Title: Painting the mural🍘
We're looking for people who can draw a mural and help with cleaning.
I don't accept requests that don't answer the questions in my profile.
🍡 Duties & Responsibilities 🍢
Paint the mural in any common space, mostly the living room.
No theme for painting, but original or copyright-free characters only.
🍱 Selection criteria 🍣
Send me your artwork. Analog art and digital art are both ok.
It can be your website, Instagram, or a PDF of your portfolio.
It's fine to upload a photo of your artwork as your profile photo.
🍜 How to upload a photo on a Workaway profile. 🍥
Select 'my profile photos' found in your 'My account' dropdown and follow the online
instructions. This is accessed by clicking your round profile photo in the top right of the screen or the three lines on mobile when logged in.
🍵 Essential criteria 🍶
Drawing talents, whether professional or hobbyist, self-study is ok.
Not a request to have experience painting a mural or education in art.
🌸 The request must be from one person, without any partner. 💮
We have enough space for multiple people but need only a little help.
📛 The request must be start from the current or next month. 🔰
🥢 Benefits and Conditions 🍚
You can do it whenever you want. We don't manage your schedule.
We have paint markers, acrylic paint, and paintbrushes.
If you need painting tools, I can buy them at the 100 yen shop.
Japanese style of painting uses paints made from crushed natural minerals.
If you prefer, you cam make paints from stones and plants instead of expensive jewels.
We prefer you stay at least more than one week, up to a few weeks.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Hindi: Fluent
Japanese: Fluent
Nepali: Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin): FluentThis host offers a language exchange
My roommates can teach their mother tongue.
Accommodation
No stoic rule, no curfew. There are two accommodations.
Meals can be offered but depend on how much you work.
[An indoor bed tent in the living room]
The warm tent with futon mattresses and blankets.
There are some storage spaces and a balcony.
An electric fan for cooling and an oil heater for heating.
[The room]
A private room with an air conditioner and furniture.
Basically for temporary use (e.g., jet lag, sickness, etc.)
Please ask about the availability of the room if you prefer it.
What else ...
You stay as a homestay. A tourist visa can stay. Japanese are ok to stay.
Screening questions for people who send a request to stay.
Can you drink alcohol? Do you have dietary requirements?
Do you have a flight ticket to Japan, or are you currently in Japan?
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
high-speed wifi
Can possibly accept pets
If you stay in the private room, it's okay to accept any pets that are quiet and friendly to people.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
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We went to the picnic with her and my friend, who doesn't speak much English. She got along with my friend because of her friendly personality.
She couldn't finish the mural before she left the house, so she came back and finished it. Thank you, Grace, for all… read more
I loved the flexibility of the work and being able to add to my peice in my own time.
I will never forget my stay here. It was such a cool exchange being able to stay with locals talk about the difference in our… read more
She helped us a lot with house cleaning, mowing, and painting a mural.
She was very friendly to all roommates. We had a fun time with her.
We are very appreciative of her.
I went to a nice cafe in the neighbor with my friend and her, we enjoyed conversation and atmosphere of the cafe
She took time to paint the colourful mural about wildlife of Thailand where she stayed before come to Japan,
I appreciate that she draw nice and eye-catching paintings.
In addition, Hiro shared lovely treats, very useful recommendations for Tokyo and the places around and I… read more
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We went to the picnic with her and my friend, who doesn't speak much English. She got along with my friend because of her friendly personality.
She couldn't finish the mural before she left the house, so she came back and finished it. Thank you, Grace, for all… read more
I loved the flexibility of the work and being able to add to my peice in my own time.
I will never forget my stay here. It was such a cool exchange being able to stay with locals talk about the difference in our… read more
She helped us a lot with house cleaning, mowing, and painting a mural.
She was very friendly to all roommates. We had a fun time with her.
We are very appreciative of her.
I went to a nice cafe in the neighbor with my friend and her, we enjoyed conversation and atmosphere of the cafe
She took time to paint the colourful mural about wildlife of Thailand where she stayed before come to Japan,
I appreciate that she draw nice and eye-catching paintings.
In addition, Hiro shared lovely treats, very useful recommendations for Tokyo and the places around and I… read more
They spent a few hours to paint without expect any reward. I like her cute and lively painting, very nice.
It was rainy day, but they' were friendly and talktable so I was able to enjoy the conversation with them.
We welcome her to… read more
Also she cooked delicious creative cuisine for us, Unfortunately my roommates were not be able to join because they were busy.
We conversed in Japanese then I realized that she had studied the language for only a few months, I was surprised… read more
