Enjoy the beautiful mountain air in Appikogen, Japan

Japan

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11
Last activity
06/07/2022
Host offers payment
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2022

Min stay requested: at least 3 weeks

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We live in beautiful mountain area. We have small mountain hotel in Appikogen (Iwate) You can enjoy beautiful fresh green and flowers and cool breeze throuth spring and summer time. And you can enjoy leaves turn red and yellow in autumn..And you can enjoy ski and snowboard in winter.... And we always make tasty meals for guest and staff... You can enjoy our meals everyday! Lets join us and enjoy together!
Types of help and learning opportunities
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
If you stay spring,sumer and autumn, you can enjoy hiking ,walking . And we can visit good sightseeing places nearby when we have time..And if you stay in winter,you can enjoy skiing and snowboarding .
Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Host has indicated that they will pay at least the minimum hourly wage of their country for each hour worked and that accommodation will also be provided. They are asking for help with a business or business activity. Contact the host directly via the site messenger for more information and details about the wage provided. Any arrangements should be agreed in advance with your host.
Help
We would love workawayers to help in our place, Cleaning, bed changing and some other general tasks around the place.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Japanese: Fluent
Accommodation
We have boys room and girls room and couple room...
What else ...
If you can stay with us, we would like give you happy happy mountain life!
A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
- Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week, host offers payment

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Accuracy of profile:
(4.6)

Cultural exchange:
(5.0)

Communication:
(4.8)

05/10/2021

Left by Workawayer (Caroline) for host

If you like the nature Appikogen is a really good place to stay.

It was not my first Workaway but I really like this place, the schedule is make day-by-day, but the time stay same(help for the breakfast if it's necessary , cleaning the house, and help for the dinner time if it's necessary) .
Is really relaxing place and the job is really easy,… read more

(Excellent )

07/01/2021

Left by Workawayer (Michael) for host

This was my first workaway experience. Thank you everyone for helping make it a good one! The work is pretty routine and the schedule is typically decided on a day-by-day basis. It took me a while to understand where everything was located in the house - but people were patient with showing where things are. Kayoko-san is a very generous host and… read more

(Excellent )

07/05/2020

Left by Workawayer (Emma & Daniel) for host

A huge thanks to Kayoko-san and Toshiyuki-san, we feel incredibly lucky to have worked and stayed with them. Along with Fuji-san (another long-term volunteer), they were incredibly kind, understanding, and patient, ensuring that we had a valuable and productive stay in Appi-Kogen.

We stayed for nearly 3 weeks during the Corona pandemic. For that… read more

(Excellent )

16/01/2020

Left by Workawayer (Selina) for host

I stayed with Kayoko and her husband for about three weeks in autumn 2019 (sorry for the late feedback).
I did enjoy staying with them, Kayoko is an excellent cook and will always when she finds some free time show you around. The work we had to do was not very hard, two hours of cleaning the rooms, make the beds etc. But we had to do so all week… read more

(Good )

09/07/2019

Left by Workawayer (Roman & Boermand) for host

We had a really great time in the house! Kayoko San was very welcoming and cooked delicious food for us everyday! We are cycling all around Japan, so we ate so much.. Thank you again Kayoko San.
Also, we were able to use the kitchen and cook some Belgian and French specialities too, soooo cool.
We just stayed 10 days in june, because we had a… read more

(Excellent )

21/12/2018

Left by Workawayer (Maria) for host

I had a fantastic time in Appikogen with Kayoko and Hikita-san. The work is definditely easy, I had to clean the rooms every day which took about two hours and then either help at night with dinner or in the morning for breakfast. So a lot of freetime. Coming here in August meant that the weather was still awesome so I could explore the… read more

(Excellent )

24/08/2018

Left by Workawayer (Kira) for host

I was very lucky to stay with Kayoko and Hikita in Appi-Kogen. This has been one of the best experiences in my entire career as a volunteer. This is an amazing place, and I can only recommend it to all travellers coming to the Tohoku Area. I stayed here for 33 days during July/August 2018 and it was simply the best time I've had in Japan thus… read more

(Excellent )

01/06/2018

Left by Workawayer (Tineke & Juda) for host

Juda and I stayed for 2,5 months and had an amazing time. We came start of march, so were able to get the snowboard passes and enjoy the mountains for one full month. The slopes are good for beginners as well as pro's, and Kayoko-san has a lot of boards, clothing and shoes to borrow. We are very grateful for her to help us out and giving us a ride… read more

(Excellent )

26/09/2017

Left by Workawayer (Timothy) for host

I had a nice relaxed time staying with kayoko, work was very fair, generally involves making beds, hoovering and washing up. you get to help a little with the food prep which is nice. It rains alot in appi, and sometimes not a lot too do, but Kayoko often went out of her way to make our lives more interesting, paying for a quite a few meals in… read more

(Excellent )

11/06/2017

Left by Workawayer (David) for host

Have had a good time there. Nice people not realy much work even if you ask for. It was the right decision for my after Tokyo.
a lot of free time 3 warm meals good accommodation and the best bathroom.

(Excellent )

27/05/2017

Left by Workawayer (Brandon) for host

My 3 1/2 week stay in the beautiful nature of Appikogen was very peaceful at Kayoko-San's guesthouse. Don't be fooled by the 'new' listing as she has been taking in volunteers for about 14 years now!

Kayoko is very down to earth, and has many kind stories from fostering stray pets to traveling the world as a skier. We always enjoy conversations… read more

(Excellent )

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