We can host only for one night. If you need more than one night, please check our listing on Airbnb. If you need like for a month, check our profile on Workaway.

Basically we host people from Couchsurfing when a Workawayer is staying at our place. As we usually do not host any workawayer during winter, you have less chance of getting hosted at our place during winter.

Before sending your message, please check where Ome city is and how to get to it with Google Map. The nearest JR train station to our place is called "Ishigamimae" station. Be sure to know how long it would take from where you would be in Tokyo or the airport. It is FAR from the center of Tokyo. That is why it is quiet and the nature is beautiful!

Please provide sufficient introduction of yourself in your message and profile, so we will be able to get to know you and respond.

We would appreciate if you read the following carefully. NO SMOKING!! NO PARTYING!! Thanks!!

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My wife, Emi, and I welcome anyone...
... who can be quiet at night...

We have hosted couchsurfers since 2013 and had lots of fun. Since 2016, we have moved to Ome City, which is located very western part of Tokyo. At a new place we started hosting people from Workaway, and stopped hosting people from Coushsurfing.

But after visiting Fiji in the summer of 2019 and being hosted by a wonderful couchsurfer host for a night, we have figured that it is now time for us to start hosting people again on CouchSurfing in addition to Workaway!

We can host you for one night in our house, basically when someone from a Workaway is around. We host people from Workaway all year around (except winter months). They generally spend one month each. As we only host solo travelers from Workaway, we thought it might be funner for them too as well as for us to have another company once in a while from CouchSurfing. During the winter months, you have less chance as we generally do not host Workawayers during winter.

We want you to read our profile on Workaway too as it reflects our preference and expectation rather clearly. You can have breakfast at our place and you get to have dinner with a Workawayer or with us, if you are lucky. Otherwise you do need to buy or prepare dinner for yourself. You are welcome to use our kitchen.

We would like people from many parts of the world, including Japan and even Tokyo for that matter, to get to know more this beautiful area of Ome-Okutama. Wonderful nature of the river and mountains.

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To get to know people from all over the world...
To give something back because many people helped and supported me by hosting, especially my host families when I was an exchange student to Dallas, Texas, the USA, from 1981 to 82 ....

Interests

Roger Federer! Playing and watching tennis. Queen's music. Learning languages. Watching baseball games. Travelling. Pandas. Micro-finance. I give fundraising English lessons to raise money for KIVA and Tsunami-hit Tohoku region. Hoping to learn cooking and playing piano...

• cooking
• politics
• traveling
• music
• piano
• baseball
• tennis
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Intersteller, Warriors Of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale, Pulp Fiction, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Memories of Murder, Tell Me Something, etc...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A very close encounter with a bear and her calf in Fukushima, 2012. I don't know what I was thinking, but I chased them...

Teach, Learn, Share

I actually teach comparative politics at a university in Tokyo.

What I Can Share with Hosts

During the academic terms, I might be able to invite you to take a peek at (or actually join) my classes and meet Japanese university students, if you are interested.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, France, Guam, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Japan, United States