| Are you interested in going to Japan? Until | | | | Japanese environment, so no matter what your |
| recently, if you wanted to work in Japan, your | | | | level, your Japanese is going to improve FAST. |
| options were limited to English Teaching, or bar | | | | Living and working in a Japanese Resort is a little |
| work. But now, thanks to the huge ski tourism | | | | like going on school camp as a child. All of the |
| boom Japan is experiencing, foreigners can now | | | | facilities are communal, so you live in large |
| choose to work in Japanese Ski, Beach, and Golf | | | | dormitories, staying in rooms with up to 4 other |
| Resorts, which is a lot more fun! | | | | people. You bathe in large group facilities, with |
| Contracts in Japanese resorts usually last | | | | showers and often a large bathtub (Japanese love |
| anywhere from 2 - 6 months. Often, if you're | | | | soaking in the bath). You eat in dining halls, with all |
| working in Beach Resorts down south in Okinawa, | | | | of your friends, and Japanese food is served to |
| you can work all year-round, as the weather | | | | you on trays, just like a school cafeteria. And |
| there is always warm, so there are always | | | | best of all, before or after work, you're always |
| tourists visiting the tropical resorts. In general, if | | | | hanging out with your friends - snowboarding, or |
| you want to work in Ski Resorts, contracts start | | | | lying on a tropical beach, playing a round of golf - |
| in December, and finish at the end of February, | | | | all these things are possible working in a Resort in |
| March, and April (in Hokkaido). For Beach or Golf | | | | Japan. |
| Resort work, contracts usually start in April - May, | | | | Working in a Resort in Japan, you don't get paid |
| and finish around October (but shorter contracts | | | | as well as you would working in an English school - |
| are also available). Almost always, 2-3 months isn't | | | | but once you factor in that all of your |
| enough, and workers often extend their contracts | | | | accommodation, meals, and season ski passes are |
| to stay a few extra months, because they're | | | | completely free when working at the resorts, you |
| having such a great time! | | | | realize that it's actually a really good deal. Expect |
| Jobs in Resorts depend completely on your | | | | to pocket almost USD$1000 per month, which is |
| Japanese ability. For lower levels, there's work in | | | | usually a lot more than you could hope to save |
| Restaurants, or on Ski lifts. For intermediate | | | | living in the city. But really, you don't choose to |
| levels, working in a gift shop, ticket sales, pool / | | | | work in a Resort in Japan for the money - you |
| beach attendant, or ski instructor / patrol | | | | do it because you want to have the time of your |
| positions are available. And for higher levels, | | | | life; to make new friends, improve your Japanese, |
| working at the hotel front desk, as a concierge, | | | | and experience the REAL Japan. And in all of |
| or a bellhop becomes possible. While the different | | | | these ways, Resort jobs in Japan deliver, like no |
| jobs require differing levels of Japanese, one thing | | | | other job does. |
| is certain: all of the jobs are in a completely | | | | |