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30 Apr 2025
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I'm from Japan and currently living in Kandy, Sri Lanka. There are 2 projects we look for supporters.
1. Hostel
2. Japanese language Education in Sri Lanka.
Trying to encourage to communicate foreign visitors and young Sri Lankan people.
【Hostel】
Me and some local staff operate the hostel. Generally all of us do all the works.
general tasks
・Reception (Check in, Check out and answer the inquires)
・Cleaning (clean and set up the rooms upon check out)
・Hosting (try to make conversation or cooking together *Voluntary)
【Japanese Language Education】
we can visit several Japanese schools nearby areas. The school wish their students to communicate with native Japanese speakers. Unfortunately there are very few native teachers in entire Sri Lanka compared to 60,000+ learners.
We'd like to support their real conversation practice and give them the experiences of interactions with Japanese people.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Teaching
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Interests
Videography
Technology
Politics / Social justice
Sustainability
Movies & TV
History
Photography
Languages
Mountain
Nature
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Meet and Host the guests from the world and share the experiences.
You can see the wonderful aspects of Sri Lanka & problems and potentials in Sri Lanka under economic and political difficulties.
Our hostel
10 guests rooms (Foreign guest 80%, Sri Lankan guest : 20%)
The travelers who come to Sri Lanka, they have visited and experienced many countries and cultures. since Sri Lanka is sort of not major travel destination. we can share their many experiences.
The guests from Sri Lanka, we can know a lot about their life and cultures. At the same time, we can see how they plan their carrier and it's about how to go to abroad these days.
While hosting them, we can closely talk and spend the time together in the same space.
I'm also staying the hostel and will try to be a bridge between the guests.
Help
Assistant host in our hostel
to encourage communication with other guests from over the world and giving them more smile😊
General host tasks (Reception, Inquires, housekeeping)
Optional activities (Teaching English or Japanese, supporting local communities)
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Japanese: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
we offer one room of our hostel
【Private space】Bedroom with own bathroom
【Shared spaces】Livingroom, Kitchen, Laundry area with washing machine
Regarding the foods - basically we are going to provide foods or food budgets.
If the workawayer is good at cooking, we can offer the food to the guests and adjust other task loads.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (5)
It was a wonderful stay.
Our job was to clean the hostel, help out, and assist the Japanese language school.
We were not very good at English and the receptionist was very attentive in teaching us how to speak English!
The Japanese food prepared by Yamasan is the best, so I looked… read more
We enjoyed a peaceful and fun time with them.
Both of them have a quite high communication skills. They can get along with anyone in a short moment.
Their English can be improved a bit more. But they could manage with the responsible personality and lovely smiles😊
Photography, Videography… read more
She has a very polite and genuine personality as people expect an ideal Japanese personality.
Hostel and Japanese teaching activities, she helped us a lot.
She was very self-motivated in her Japanese teaching activities and events.
I wish she would experience a lot in many… read more
On the first day, my important charger suddenly broke, but they helped me buy a new one. This was extremely helpful since I was unfamiliar with… read more
Thanks to her, we were able to provide very good services to our guests!
We are very grateful for her contributions especially on the following
✔️Yoga class, Photography and her language fluency(English, Russian, Kazakh)
✔️Cultural exchange. She cooked Kazakh foods for us and the… read more
As a volunteer, it’s always a delight when hosts genuinely take an interest in your skills and provide opportunities for you to grow. Yama-san certainly exemplifies this spirit. When I… read more
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It was a wonderful stay.
Our job was to clean the hostel, help out, and assist the Japanese language school.
We were not very good at English and the receptionist was very attentive in teaching us how to speak English!
The Japanese food prepared by Yamasan is the best, so I looked… read more
We enjoyed a peaceful and fun time with them.
Both of them have a quite high communication skills. They can get along with anyone in a short moment.
Their English can be improved a bit more. But they could manage with the responsible personality and lovely smiles😊
Photography, Videography… read more
She has a very polite and genuine personality as people expect an ideal Japanese personality.
Hostel and Japanese teaching activities, she helped us a lot.
She was very self-motivated in her Japanese teaching activities and events.
I wish she would experience a lot in many… read more
On the first day, my important charger suddenly broke, but they helped me buy a new one. This was extremely helpful since I was unfamiliar with… read more
Thanks to her, we were able to provide very good services to our guests!
We are very grateful for her contributions especially on the following
✔️Yoga class, Photography and her language fluency(English, Russian, Kazakh)
✔️Cultural exchange. She cooked Kazakh foods for us and the… read more
As a volunteer, it’s always a delight when hosts genuinely take an interest in your skills and provide opportunities for you to grow. Yama-san certainly exemplifies this spirit. When I… read more
We asked her to join 2 projects (Hostel management & Japanese language school)
I write down her good points📝
✔️Quick learner and polite communication
✔️High adaptability to the environment(I believe it's from her experiences in Africa and many countries since young age. She can survive… read more
Since I am taking Japanese teachers' curriculum at my university, he suggested me to do Japanese speaking lessons at Japanese school. That was truly worth experience and it will definitely affect my future career.
The place I have stayed was comfortable and the host Yama always… read more
We were looking for a first non-Japanese volunteer staff in our hostel. Among many applicants, we selected her as a workawayer and it was a great selection I believe.
Her communication skills and socialistic personality helped a lot to make at home and welcoming vibes in our place. She also gave us… read more
Yama is one of the most trustworthy people I’ve ever met—a fair, disciplined, yet flexible host. He consistently provided clear instructions and always prioritized my comfort and peace of mind. He… read more
