Fruit picking in Japan

We have several houses. I bought one of them for volunteers two years ago. It was just a old storage house originally but I hired lots of professional carpenters, glazier man, painter, electric man and let them remodel the house to be a mini-dorm and installed two shower rooms, mini-kitchen, two toilets, a washroom, two washing machines, a fredge, a microwave, an airconditioner. We have four bed rooms downstairs and in each room, I bought a bunkbed so,that means eight people can stay on the first floor and besides that, we have two more Japanese tatami rooms upstairs where mostly lasies stay. I bought and installed lots of other furnitures also. I prepared 15 bikes for volunteers. So, to commute between volunteers’
house and ourfarms, you can take one of them. This is one of the best accommodations for volunteers, I believe. The location is VERY nice. It is located on the field area, surrounded by lots of high mountains including
Mt. Fuji, Yatsugatake Range, South Alps of Japan. In front of this house, we have a canalcalled “Tokushima Canal” along the avenue of Sakura trees
(cherry blossom trees) and it goes on for 30-40 kilometers long. Tokushima Canal was created during 1600s. It is one of the historical monuments in this local area. Mr. Tokushima, the guy from Tokugawa government came over
to rescue local farmers and they all worked hard to create this canal
for bringing enough water to grow rice in this region.

We work from8:00 or 8:30 to 4:30 or 5:00p.m. Yet, it might some vary,
depending on how busy we are. Basically, my sister in law, Yoko san, she
cooks for all volunteers for breakfast and dinner. For lunch, either we eat at
volunteers’ house or buy lunch from stores and eat on the farm.

We provide volunteers two days off during a week, usually
Thursday and Friday. When you have a day off, you need to clean a
whole house of your staying, after that you can do whatever you want.

On the day off, we provide you only breakfast, so for lunch
& dinner, you can go out and eat or buy some food from local stores. In just five min. walk, you can reach to the bottom of one of local mountains. If you want to go to onsen, I can take you but you need to pay for your own.
In Yamanashi only, we have over 500 spots of onsen.
In just 5 min. drive, we can reach there.

In case, you are still willing to help us on the day off, yes we
accept your offer and you can work together with us.
Of course, Yoko-san will cook super delicious food for you.


(For your use of internet)
For your use of internet, at Obasan's house where I stay, I installed wifi,
so you can bring your smart phone or laptop to use internet before
or after your dinner and even before breakfast, you might be able to use.
On your day off, you can visit our local library where there are two PCs
to use for internet. That is a very tiny library but located within walking distance. There are actually two more spots where you can use internet.


The following sites might help you to understand Japanese
and Japanese culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ixSj-lvRk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB5TrBixv0Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxU7YMxCvKA

I’m sending the site that was created by non-Japanese who stayed in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUhd4xof4g