We are excited to offer a 4 day volunteering tour to Tohoku. This project is run in collaboration with a voluntary organisation, RQ Citizens Disaster Relief Network Japan (RQ-CNJ). The package includes transport from Tokyo, accommodation, meals, equipment and the help of an English speaking assistant throughout.
Project volunteers will assist with various cleaning tasks alongside local Japanese. You may be asked to clean and restore damaged houses and schools, shovel rubble from roads or clear parks and rice paddies. It will be hard, manual labour so please be sure that you are up to the task. However at a time like this, every little helps and your contribution will certainly be valuable to the people of Tohoku.
The gigantic earthquake triggered destructive tsunami waves of up to 38 metres. That's the height of a 14-storey building. Some waves travelled up to 10km inland sweeping away houses, schools and other buildings as well as thousands of people. There are still more than 11,000 evacuees who cannot return to their homes.
Please call us today for more information. We hope to help you, help Tohoku
Supporting Disaster Relief
If you are unable to travel to Japan to volunteer, please consider supporting our Tsunami Relief Fund. Since the week of the disaster InsideJapan Tours has been supporting Japanese NGO Civic Force by raising funds through Just Giving. We are still short of our initial goal of £25,000 so if you are able to, please donate. It will take many years to rebuild this region so every donation is important.
Click here to donate to the Tsunami Relief Fund
- Accommodation: 3 nights in a Japanese style room (2-6 people per room, men and women separate)
- Guide: English speaking assistant for the whole itinerary
- Transfer: chartered coach from Tokyo to Miyagi Prefecture and back
- Meals: 3x breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Equipment: rain boots, rubber gloves, cap, dust mask, dust proof goggles
- Group: minimum 8 people
- International Flights
- Accommodation in Tokyo
- Airport transfers
- Transport to the meeting place (Tokyo’s Shinbashi Station)
- Baggage handling
Rooming
Rooming for this tour is in shared Japanese style rooms (2 to 6 people) seperated for men and women. If you are travelling with a partner / friend then it may be possible to share the same private room but this cannot be guaranteed.
Single Travellers
We are delighted to welcome single travellers on to this tour. There is no single supplement but single travellers will usually be asked to share a room with other travellers of the same sex.
Travel Insurance
Contact us for details of specialist travel insurance with reasonable premiums suitable for this tour.
Planning to spend a little longer in Japan? We can include this volunteering tour as part of a longer Self-Guided Japan holiday. We can work any of our itineraries around the volunter work or if you wouldlike us to plan a Fully-Tailored Trip we would be delighted to do so. Please contact us for more details.
Day by Day Itinerary
Day 1 Sendai
Transfer from Tokyo to Matsushima
The volunteering tour starts at noon when you will be picked up from Tokyo’s Shimbashi Station. Your group will transfer by private coach to your accommodation in Akiu Onsen, just outside Sendai city. Your English speaking assistant will accompany you on this journey and throughout the 4 day trip.
In the evening you will settle into your accommodation, a traditional Japanese style hotel with hot spring baths, and get to know your group. Dinner will be served in the hotel.
Day 2 to Day 3 Sendai
Volunteer work in Miyagi Prefecture
Over the next two days you will get stuck into your volunteer tasks. After breakfast at your accommodation, you will transfer to a volunteer centre in Ishinomaki or the Oshika Peninsula. You will be assigned work from 9am to 3pm. You may be asked to clean damaged houses, restore a school, clear rubble from roads, fields or parks. It will be hard work! But there is little doubt that you will be making a valuable contribution. You will be sure to meet local people whose lives have been greatly affected by this tragic disaster.
Lunch is also included and will be a bento lunch box eaten on site. Dinner will be served back at your hotel.
Day 4 Tokyo
Volunteer work in Miyagi Prefecture. Transfer back to Tokyo
Today you will continue with your volunteer work from 9am to 1pm, with a bento lunch box on site. Afterwards you’ll return to Tokyo by chartered coach. You will be dropped off at Shinbashi Station at around 6pm.
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Photos
An upturned car swept away by the tsunami
Residential damaged floor in need of repair
Pricing Information
Accommodation
Akiu Onsen Grand Hotel
Sendai
Japanese Style
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| Currently there are no departures available for this year. Please contact us using the enquiy form or call us - UK (0)117 370 9740 / USA 303 952 0184 | |||||||
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| Currently there are no departures available for this year. Please contact us using the enquiy form or call us - UK (0)117 370 9740 / USA 303 952 0184 | |||||||
- Accommodation: 3 nights in a Japanese style room (2-6 people per room, men and women separate)
- Guide: English speaking assistant for the whole itinerary
- Transfer: chartered coach from Tokyo to Miyagi Prefecture and back
- Meals: 3x breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Equipment: rain boots, rubber gloves, cap, dust mask, dust proof goggles
- Group: minimum 8 people
- International Flights
- Accommodation in Tokyo
- Airport transfers
- Transport to the meeting place (Tokyo’s Shinbashi Station)
- Baggage handling
Rooming
Rooming for this tour is in shared Japanese style rooms (2 to 6 people) seperated for men and women. If you are travelling with a partner / friend then it may be possible to share the same private room but this cannot be guaranteed.
Single Travellers
We are delighted to welcome single travellers on to this tour. There is no single supplement but single travellers will usually be asked to share a room with other travellers of the same sex.
Travel Insurance
Contact us for details of specialist travel insurance with reasonable premiums suitable for this tour.
Planning to spend a little longer in Japan? We can include this volunteering tour as part of a longer Self-Guided Japan holiday. We can work any of our itineraries around the volunter work or if you wouldlike us to plan a Fully-Tailored Trip we would be delighted to do so. Please contact us for more details.
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