Signing up for a Nagomi Visit is a great way to learn about Japanese food and culture by visiting homes from Hokkaido to Okinawa. Join our unique volunteer based community where good genuine sharing happens all across Japan. Get started Β». Nagomi Visit is a non-profit organization and not an online marketplace. We do not commodify our hosts and experiences. Our goal is for you to meet that friend or family you haven't met. See map below for specific locations.
Eat or cook at your host's home for about 2 or 3 hours. However, the hope is that there will be a next time where you meet again. Many hosts have acquired much of their language skill from travel, study, or work. Each host may speak at different levels and speak other languages.
Since more than 8, families, couples, solo travelers of all ages from around the world have gone on Nagomi Visits. We know the host and guest dynamic changes to a commercial one once money changes hands so the price is fixed to 5, yen just to cover operation costs. When I booked the Nagomi Visit, everyone was very excited. No one was nervous or scared.
They could not communicate verbally, but they had fun folding origami together and engaging in physical humor. As a parent, I was amazed at how well the children got along and played together. The activity was very different than any other activity we did on our trip, but was perhaps the most special.
I read about Nagomi Visit in an Instagram-Post and was immediately hooked, but when I told Felix about it, he was a bit skeptical. We are both not too outgoing, so visiting people you've never met, and whose language you don't speak, "just like that" probably felt a bit weird.
