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ABOUT ME
I am a married 28year old living in the remote countryside of Hokkaido Niseko. I have recently started a sustainable manufacturing company with my wife and a childhood friend. We use 3d printers, lasers, cnc`s and all kinds of modern high tech machines to manufacture our products and we mainly use locally sourced wood as our resource.
Besides my business, I am a big outdoors person and enjoy hobbies such as snowboarding, kayaking, mtbing, fishing, hunting, hiking, as well as indoor activities like volleyball and karate.
Besides all the physical activity, I am also a big nerd for high tech gadgets and often find myself watching 3d printers, arduino projects, or any STEM related youtube videos and love tinkering and making things on my free time.
I own a very old house that i renovated, and currently live with our business partner (my childhood friend) and a couple of chickens.
This is actually my second time being a workaway host. My first time being a workaway host was in Etajima, Hiroshima which I ran an aquaponics farm and helped with local community projects etc. You may find all my workaway reviews to be from that era.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Proyectos artísticos
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Ayuda informática
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Our goal is to make the best hackerspace in Hokkaido. We want to bridge the education gap between the city and the countryside, and our goal is to make a sustainable and community friendly business. Right now the goal is to build up our business so we have better recognition within the community and also to gain enough capital to start our first hackerspace. We mainly work with wooden products, but am eventually thinking of expanding our product line up to using upcycled plastic, and more. Ideas are always welcome and we encourage tinkering and exploring when you are with us. If you have projects you want to do, please feel free to let us and know and lets make it happen.
Niseko is a big tourist destination, and there are tons of ski/snowboard bums looking for accommodation. If you are just looking to Ski and a place to stay, this is not for you. We are not looking for tourist!!!!! We are looking for people who really want to be part of our team and enjoy our local lifestyle with us.
How can you benefit from your stay with us?
-see how start ups operate
-STEM knowledge
-Machining knowledge
-Language exchange
-Living in the remote, almost self-reliant living
-environmental awareness
-local and simple living
AT THE SAME TIME
There is sooooo much to do in Niseko, that you will not be bored. Many plan to stay for a few days but end up staying for months. In the summer I go kayaking almost every week, so if you are interested bring your swim gear or wetsuit!
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
We ask all volunteers to help out with indoor and outdoor projects for approx 3-5 HOURS A DAY. The time is flexible, so you can help any time of the day or work really hard one day, and rest a day. We have a ton of jobs to do.
I have done multiple different workaways myself, so I know what it feels like to be a volunteer. I try to keep my workaway as interesting as possible, and not just jobs like weeding for 8 hours everyday. We have simple jobs, but also very complicated jobs as well!
We are currently looking for people who have a strong DIY background. Having artistic skills like photography, designing, illustrations are also a big plus! We are a small workaway that can only host one or two at the time, so we eat, work, and all live together so being nice and cooperative is what we look for the most!
Try to be specific as possible when it comes to dates and things you could do. I get messages almost everyday, and do not reply fast. (I also do not reply to copy pasters, and just to give you a hint you should read everything on our profile!)
Also we usually have a zoom call before officially accepting any workaways.
list of help for DIY workaways:
-Build a chicken coup
-Build a garage
-Build a workshop
-Farming
-designing
-hobby level prototyping
-Help out neighbors, We have plenty of friends and neighbors around that need a hand. And we usually ask volunteers to go help out 1-2 times a week!
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Japonés: Fluido
Urdu: Fluido
Chino (mandarín): Fluido
Francés: Intermedio
Alojamiento
We live in a 50year old house that we reformed ourselves next to a very wonderful forest. We have very few neighbors, none in the vicinity of 200meters. We have one guest room that can fit 2-3 people. The room is a tatami style room so we ask guests to sleep on the floor. We also have a huge plot of land with a bunch of camping gear (tent, sleeping bag, camping car) if you want to sleep outside.
We have wifi, we use starlink.
Commute
There are few buses around our area, we can initially come pick you up at kutchan or niseko station. If you want to go places you must rent a car or go with a bicycle. If you have a japanese/international license we have a scooter you can use, but please pay for your own gas. For people planning to come in March or April, the ski slopes are about 10min away from our house. We usually go to the slopes 2-3 times a week, but if you plan on going more you will have to get your own car.
Roommate Situation
Currently there is 3 people living in the house. Me, my wife, and my childhood friend. We are all super friendly, welcoming, and open-minded. We have our own private rooms so you won`t be needing to share a room with us. We share the kitchen, living room, bathroom together and every week we make sure to clean up the mess we make.
Please realize that we are living right next to the forest so there will be insects and wild animals, etc.
What I Can Share with Guests
A tatami room
hot water
electricity
bicycle you can use
guitar
refrigerator
sauna
3d printer, laser, CNC
A NOTE ON FOOD:
We will provide 2 meals a day lunch and dinner. Nothing fancy. We get most of our veggies from local farmers, and eat alot of wild deer meat.
If you are vegan or vegetarian, we do not reccomend coming to our place!!!!!!!!!
Cooking food for us would be very wonderful, you are welcome to use our ingredients but please ask if you do. Also chipping in on the grocery would be very nice, since we just started a business and we are trying to be frugal!
Also there are plenty of ways to gather food around the house (fishing, gathering, lots of mushrooms in the forest).
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Things to do at our house when you are free! Its Niseko the best tourist destination in Hokkaido!!
-Hiking up the mountain
-Fishing (there is a beautiful stream near our place)
-Onsen (tons of different onsens around our area
-Ski slopes 10-20min access by car to 5 different ski slopes
-backcountry snowshoe/skiing right next to our house
-Sauna (yes we do have a Sauna)
-Go visit the town (tons of bars and good food near the slopes, great place to make friends)
-Edible plant gathering
-Also there are many local events and meet ups of all kinds.
Thank you for reading the information. Now if you are still interested in staying please message me and start the message with "ZOOM ZOOM" So that I know you read all the information.
THANK YOU
Jin
Un poco más de información
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
We use starlink, it may have connection issues depending on the weather.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
We have more than enough parking space.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Dos
Horas esperadas
Maximum 3-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Comentarios (11)
Tip: Stock up on food at the Fresta before you get on the ferry in Hiroshima - the grocery store on Etajima is pretty far from the farm.
Seriously though, Alex and Jin are two very welcoming and easy-going, fun pair of young guys, it makes you feel at home pretty quick.
This was my first Workaway ever, I didn't really know what to expect and was a bit nervous at first, but now it's my best memory of this trip so far!
The work was very fair,… read more
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Tip: Stock up on food at the Fresta before you get on the ferry in Hiroshima - the grocery store on Etajima is pretty far from the farm.
Seriously though, Alex and Jin are two very welcoming and easy-going, fun pair of young guys, it makes you feel at home pretty quick.
This was my first Workaway ever, I didn't really know what to expect and was a bit nervous at first, but now it's my best memory of this trip so far!
The work was very fair,… read more
Ive been able to steal around 3 or 4 recipes from Simone, and i still regret not noting them all down! Simone is a great at cook and a fisherman. He would cook delicious meals everyday and would go down to the port and fish our dinner. He even caught an anago(eel)! I still have no clue how he makes these gourmet, but he just… read more
I've spent a month with Jin-san and Fujisawa-san, and it literally flown away.
They are a cool duo, very energetic and funny, I always had good time with them, and laugh around the dinner table.
The place is very beautiful, in not so remote, but chill island of Etajima, plenty of time for explore the area, and go fishing,… read more
Tangi showed us magic tricks and cool hip stuff that i guess young ppl nowadays do! They even made us crepe and helped out in cleaning out the storage! I hope you come visit us again!
-Jin
Jin and Alex are really weird for a Japanese guys.… read more
They're very welcoming and enthusiastic guys, who are very… read more
Besides being a mom, she… read more
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He has the wits to solve problems, and is always trying to find a better way to a solution. If you are looking for someone you can trust and manage your place, Muhammad is the way to go!
Besides work habit you… read more
I shared so many fun times, interesting experiences, and some hardships with the hosts Jin and Alex and with all the other workawayers/new friends I met during my month there. And… read more
They started already creating a vegetable garden and making the place more beautiful....
Still so much to do! Cause those young and dynamic… read more
