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Member for
7 years

Kanto

Ibaraki

Hitachi-Ōmiya City

常陸大宮市

  • Vegetable Gardens

  • Supporting Handicapped People
  • Opportunities to Study Japanese
  • Traditional Local Japanese Cooking
  • Making Wooden Things
  • Walking to Enjoy Nature

Not applicable

We do not consider issues in terms of whether they are organic, alternative, etc.

留学生や訪日旅行者にホームステイの可能性を提供しています（ボランティアは主に家の手伝いです）。

最近では車を所有していないので、公共交通機関と徒歩のみを利用しています。
ファーストフード店のものは食べない。
テレビを見るのは最低限で済ませる。・・・（その分読書の時間に充てる）
タバコは吸わない・・・（吸う意味を理解できない）。
物はできるだけ長く使いたいと思っています・・・
電気、ガス、ガソリンはなるべく使わない。・・・
こだわりは少なく・・・（衣食住・着飾るようなことはしないで、食べ物は何でもよく、住み家はほどほどで・・・）
体に良くないこと（たとえば殺虫剤など特に皮膚に散布するスプレーの殺虫剤など）はともかく避ける。

We offer homestay possibilities for international students and visitors to Japan. Volunteering mainly is in and around our house.

I don't own a car these days, so I only use public transport and walk.
I don't eat fast food restaurants.
Watch TV as little as possible. ・・・(Allocate that time to reading)
I don't smoke... (I don't understand what it means to smoke).
I want things to last as long as possible...
Use electricity, gas, and gasoline as little as possible. ・・・
I'm not picky about anything...
Avoid things that are bad for your body (e.g., insecticides, especially spray insecticides that are applied to the skin).

  • General diet including meat and fish
  • We cook mainly Japanese meals
  • We usually cook homemade meals
  • We may eat pre-made foods from supermakets and department stores
  • We never eat fast food such as McDonald’s and KFC, etc.

When we have a party or an event, we might drink with WWOOFers but these occasions are not so often

No, nobody smokes

  • Outside the town
  • Quiet place

Our home and our workplace are situated at the same place or very close to each other and so the atmosphere stated pertains to both our home and our workplace

  • Typical Japanese Size

20度

35度

20度

10度

No

No

  • All Year Round

  • One Night
  • A Few Days
  • 4 to 7 Days
  • 8 to 10 Days
  • A Few Weeks
  • 3 to 4 Weeks
  • Both Short Period and Long Period Welcome

Up to Four

5 to 20

Depends on the situation

  • No conditions. If we do not have other WWOOFers or other WWOOFer reservations, we welcome all WWOOFers
  • Any gender
  • Not single WWOOFer
  • A wife & husband couple, or a couple
  • WWOOFers of any age
  • WWOOFers who like nature
  • WWOOFers who like doing house chores, for example cooking, cleaning and washing
  • WWOOFers who can clean rooms
  • WWOOFers who can understand and deal with handicapped people
  • WWOOFers who can use computers
  • Active WWOOFers
  • Cheerful WWOOFers
  • WWOOFers who can be patient
  • WWOOFers who can be cooperative

  • Weeding
  • Gathering grass
  • Cleaning
  • Cooking
  • Washing the dishes
  • General housework
  • Repairing houses
  • Computer related
  • Supporting handicapped people

We are trying to give WWOOFers 6 hours a day, however, it may increase or decrease depending on the activities we are doing

  • In a room in the house where the Host family live
  • In a traditional Japanese Tatami mat room
  • Using a Japanese futon

  • Usually with the Host
  • With other WWOOFers, trainees, etc.

Ask us when contacting us

Yes, at a designated location

  • No

Yes

At least one of our Host members has much time to communicate with WWOOFers

  • Yes, to a certain degree

  • Japanese

ウーファーの皆さん。こんにちは。

私は木を主体とした家を建てたり、リフォームしたりしていました（大小合わせて10軒の家を建てました）。 以前にも展示用の木工作品を制作したことがあります。
私自身、視力に問題があるため、中途半端な障害を持っています。

また静岡県の伊豆にも自分の家があり、伊豆と常陸大宮に行ったり来たりしています。
タイミングによっては、常陸大宮（茨城県）や伊豆（静岡県）でのヘルプが必要になるかもしれない。

常陸大宮では草刈りが終わったところを開墾して畑にしたいと思っています。また, 今はテラスも作り終わって、さて2代目の囲炉裏でも作ろうかなと思案しています。

伊豆では本格的な木工の機械があるのでそういうことが好きな人はぜひ伊豆のほうにお越しください。

また、家の内外で手伝う仕事もあります。 特に掃除、草むしりなどのガーデニング作業、そして時々買い物や料理をすることもあります（料理は今でも得意です！）。

今まで30人ぐらいのウーファーさんが伊豆に常陸大宮に来てもらっていますが皆さんほんとにいい人ですね。
こんなことで訪問してくれる人に対してはなるべく断らないように誰でもどうぞと言う方針でやっています。
ご縁があるといいですね。
あまり肩肘張らずゆったりと遊びに来るようなつもりで良いので来てもらえば嬉しいです。
皆さんよろしくお願いいたします

All woofers. Hello.

I used to build and renovate wooden houses (I have built 10 houses both large and small). I have made woodwork for exhibition before.
I myself am partially handicapped due to vision problems.

I also have my own house in Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and I go back and forth between Izu and Hitachi Omiya.
Depending on the timing, you may need help in Hitachi Omiya (Ibaraki Prefecture) or Izu (Shizuoka Prefecture).

In Hitachi Omiya, I would like to clear the land where the mowing is over and turn it into a field. Also, now that the terrace has been finished, I'm thinking about making the second hearth.

In Izu, there are full-fledged woodworking machines, so if you like that kind of thing, please come to Izu.

Also, there is some work in helping in and around the house. Particularly cleaning, gardening work like weeding and sometimes shopping and cooking (I am still good with cooking though!).

So far, about 30 woofers have come to Izu and Hitachiomiya, and they are all really nice people.
We have a policy of not refusing as much as possible to people who visit us in such a way, and we ask everyone to come.
I hope you have a good relationship.
I would be happy if you could come and visit me.
thank you all
WE ARE ACCEPTING WWOOFers
タイミングによっては、常陸大宮（茨城県）や伊豆（静岡県）でのヘルプが必要になるかもしれない。
Depending on the timing, I might require help in Hitachi-Ōmiya (Ibaraki Prefecture) or in Izu (Shizuoka Prefecture).