Kamimamakuchi

Name: Kamimamakuchi
Start: 2026-09-05
End: 2026-09-15
Location: Japan

Code: 20251107-75af-4815-a261-a8979b78070a Copied

Japan Farming Manual work Farming Manual work Fixed dates

About the project

Kamimamakuchi

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

This project is actively working for SDGs 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), organized together with Kamimamakuchi village since 2013, and they tried starting new project with volunteer. Depopulation (especially of youth) is a serious problem here similarly in many other country sides. This village have only 20 families and very few young people. It is difficult to keep traditional culture and community work, so we aim to help keeping this landscape/cultures and telling local village's attraction by young power! *Outcome of this project: Volunteer had painted fence about 1km! And organizing candle night festival, cultural party! Local people really welcome to coming the new people! Please see the long term goal of this project as Local SDGs at https://www.slideshare.net/nice-workcamp/2019-wp2-188758763 (only Japanese for the moment, but you can at least enjoy the pictures!).

💼 What the programme involves

Main works are 1. Drawing on the fences that are near mountain, 2. Agriculture: harvesting rice, 3. Supporting the events with local people and do some other work for the community.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The community center in the village. There are clean kitchen and toilet. Volunteers take a shower in the kindly local people's houses. Please bring sleeping bag! Volunteers prepare the meals by themselves. Wi-Fi is not available.

📍 About the location

Ishikawa prefecture is almost middle of Japan. Campsite is very small village located in South part of Ishikawa prefecture. There are rice fields, historical shrine, and beautiful nature. (https://goo.gl/maps/JBr8Py5WowS2) Other activities - Exchange parties with local people, trekking and hot spring etc.

⚠️ Requirements

High motivation to work hard and seriously and enjoy simple countryside life. Need idea for local revitalization. Speaking Japanese language is welcomed!

ℹ️ Additional information

Study theme - Volunteers get knowledge about actions for developing local village. Also, the basic knowledge of the Japanese language and local culture. Participation fee - 18,000 JPY (100 EUR by the rate on 2025 Nov. 3rd) of NICE Volunteers fee need to be paid in advance either by Card or PayPal. This is used for the project preparation/ coordination such as the transportation of the staff/ camp leaders, visa invitation cost, publications, etc. while the meals and the accommodation are provided by the local host by free (so, your fee is not used for those things!). Other - Follow (@kamimamakuchi_nice) on Instagram to see the activities of the local host.

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📷 Project photos

Kamimamakuchi

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📅 Available sessions

NICE-26S-0904A

05/09/2026 at 00:00 → 15/09/2026 at 00:00

Open

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

18000.00 JPY ≈ 102 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Ishikawa, Japan

Japan

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Japan Yen (JPY / ¥)

Exchange rate

1 JPY = 0.005641 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Japan Standard Time

Local time: 21:12 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Japanese